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TV news originating from the newsroom

DavidMedzorian said:
For years the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite originated from the newsroom.
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Yeah, and I believe this is why most of the locals who tried this format were CBS O&O, or affiliated. The famous 1963 videotape of Cronkite announcing the death of JFK was definitely from a newsroom setting...(Though I'm not sure this was the real CBS newsroom, or a set to look like it. The same can be said about the later local versions).
 
TheBigA said:
That was the real newsroom. It was a bulletin, so he was reporting from a desk, rather than the usual news set.
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I may be wrong, but I think this location was also the home of the CBS Evening News at the time. Perhaps someone can confirm. If they are still alive.
 
seatownmedia said:
I may be wrong, but I think this location was also the home of the CBS Evening News at the time. Perhaps someone can confirm. If they are still alive.
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Actually you're right. I was unaware of this until I found this video of the CBS Evening News from 1963:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...24BAB656742B5301C14024BAB656742B&&FORM=VRDGAR

At the time, CBS was still in Grand Central Station. The studios were there, and I believe the offices were nearby on Madison Avenue. They moved to Black Rock on W52nd Street 3 years later. This is great video, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 30 minute newscast.

So for the first few years, the CBS Evening News was anchored from the newsroom, with Walter sitting at his desk. At some point, they shifted Walter's chair so they could chroma-key slides behind him, and built a larger curved desk away from everyone else, but I think he was still in the newsroom. At some point, the newsroom and studio moved to W57th street, where it is now. It's a much bigger studio, and the newsroom is behind glass walls.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpt_a_Apu8Q

KOVR 13 Sacramento in 1991 the former ABC Affiliate at the time of clip did their news in the Newsroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQLo6Cpr0rw

And under Sinclair Ownership KOVR did their broadcasts in the Newsroom in 2004 prior to CBS taking over the station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqmEsSDVjg

Even in the first years of CBS Ownership KOVR continued to do their broadcasts in the newsroom while CBS was in the process of merging the KMAX and KOVR staff in West Sacramento at KOVR Drive. Prior to 2005 CBS ran only the then UPN affiliate KMAX-TV.
 
TheBigA said:
Actually you're right. I was unaware of this until I found this video of the CBS Evening News from 1963:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...24BAB656742B5301C14024BAB656742B&&FORM=VRDGAR

At the time, CBS was still in Grand Central Station. The studios were there, and I believe the offices were nearby on Madison Avenue. They moved to Black Rock on W52nd Street 3 years later. This is great video, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 30 minute newscast.

So for the first few years, the CBS Evening News was anchored from the newsroom, with Walter sitting at his desk. At some point, they shifted Walter's chair so they could chroma-key slides behind him, and built a larger curved desk away from everyone else, but I think he was still in the newsroom. At some point, the newsroom and studio moved to W57th street, where it is now. It's a much bigger studio, and the newsroom is behind glass walls.
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In Scott Pelley's first year anchoring the Evening News, he did the newscast from the local CBS Los Angeles newsroom (KCBS-KCAL), in which they share with the network, in Studio City.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/pho...-news-with-scott-pelley-comes-to-los-angeles/
 
WFAA Dallas (8/ABC) had a 4:30 PM newscast for a hot minute in the very early 80’s and it was anchored from their newsroom.
 
LKellerIII said:
KGO-TV in San Francisco broadcast from the newsroom for quite awhile - about a year or so ago. IIRC, it lasted for weeks. It was an odd newsroom, too - kind of long and narrow in back of the anchors...not a good look, aesthetically speaking. But they ended up on a spanking new high-tech set, so I assume that there was some kind of delay in construction that kept them in the news room for so long.
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As I recall, it was not so much construction, but something wasn't quite right with the (also new) cameras, and whatever the issue was required a lot of time for 'tweaking'.(Bear in mind, KRON also has its studios at 900 Front Street, and has never had decent audio in that studio, so who knows what the building's 'gremlins' are up to?)
 
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