Every day millions of Americans tune in to a newscast on one of
their local television stations to learn what is new in their
community. In fact, more people watch local news than network news,
but surprisingly little is known about the early days of television
when stations across the country searched for ways to do news in
the new medium. In Broadcasting the Local News, Lynn Boyd Hinds, a
former Pittsburgh broadcaster, introduces us to one
station--KDKA-TV--which literally invented television news in
Pittsburgh.
Television came to Pittsburgh in 1949 when WDTV (the forerunner
of KDKA-TV) went on the air. Whereas many television stations in
the United States began reading news on the air only to comply with
FCC requirements, WDTV treated news seriously from day one with its
first regular program, a local news show called "Pitt Parade."
Today KDKA is still highly regarded among journalists for its news
programming.
Although television news may seem familiar to us, it was
anything but familiar to the men and women of early television.
Hinds shows how they borrowed liberally from newspapers, radio,
motion picture newsreels, theater, and even magazines to create, by
trial and error, suitable ways to present the news. Rather than
instantly replacing radio, television news moved slowly from the
"rip and read" radio-style format, which simply duplicated what
came over the wire services and was in the newspapers, to the
conventions of local newscasts we take for granted today--live
remotes, lead and feature stories, sports and weather, all brought
together by an in-studio anchor.
Pittsburghers will recognize many familiar names in Hinds's
account--Bill Burns, Paul Long, Florence Sando, Eleanor Schano, and
others--veterans of Pittsburgh broadcasting whom Hinds has
interviewed for this book. The story they tell is the story of
dozens of other stations across the country. In the process, they
tell us much about the early history of television in America.
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