October 2005 ff amera TheC National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences www.emmysf.tv San Francisco/Northern California Chapter SAN FRANCISCO STATIONS HIT THE ROAD FOR KATRINA By Bob Goldberger It was Friday, August 26, 2005. Sunday night and Monday morning as Hurricane Katrina had rudely slapped the storm rolled in, before moving to the Florida Keys, and was now New Orleans and Slidell the next day, chugging through the Gulf of Mexico to cover the gut-wrenching flooding, on a collision course with New evacuations, and rescues. Orleans, growing stronger by the Two other stations weren’t far hour. News managers in Northern behind. By the end of the week, crews California and throughout the country from KTVU (Fox 2) and KPIX (CBS 5) were struggling with the same were also in New Orleans. In fact, question: “Do we send our own KPIX committed three reporters and people to cover this developing photographers at once. News Director story?” Dan Rosenheim says it was a special The Bay Area’s five primary news situation. “We don’t normally send stations each answered that question reporters to hurricanes because they differently, for very different rea- don’t happen here. If we were in New sons. Three went, two did not, but York or Miami, where they deal with they all brought their viewers exten- their own hurricanes, it would be sive coverage of the disaster now different. But when the magnitude of known simply as “Katrina.” Katrina’s damage became clear, we When Katrina hit Monday morn- knew we had to go.” ing, it was a strong category four KTVU news director Ed Chapuis storm, with sustained winds of 150 gives the same reason for sending miles an hour and waves up to 40 feet high. It left the reporter Ken Wayne to New Orleans, but he says for Gulf Coast in shambles from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to them, one crew was enough. “Our goal clearly was not Mobile, Alabama. By Tuesday, two sections of levee to try to out network the network. We wanted to do the protecting the sunken city of New Orleans had crumbled, human stories about our local people who were there— and 80% of the Crescent City was severely flooded. to show how California was helping with the recovery First on the scene was KGO, ABC7, although news effort. We saw it as a local story because we’d seen so director Kevin Keeshan says they didn’t exactly plan it many crews coming out of here. Our goal was to find that way. “We were first in because we had the good them and tell their stories.” fortune of (reporter) Mark Matthews already stationed KNTV (NBC 11) and KRON 4 News opted not to send in Crawford, Texas, covering Cindy Sheehan’s protest their own crews, again, for different reasons. KNTV news outside the President’s ranch. That story essentially director Jim Sanders says it simply was not necessary, ended Saturday, so on Sunday, Mark drove eight hours because the NBC O&O group (owned and operated to Baton Rouge to cover Katrina.” Matthews reported live continued on page 4 MEDIA NIGHT 10/7 SILVER & GOLD 10/15 NATAS’ Northern California chapter will host this Later this month, your Northern month’s “Media Night” in Sacramento. California NATAS Chapter will induct eight The monthly get-together will be held at 11 p.m. on more outstanding television professionals Friday, Oct. 7, at the Riverside Clubhouse in down- into the Gold and Silver Circles. town Sacramento. A. Richard (Dick) Robertson will be NATAS will provide a drink coupon for any television inducted into the prestigious Gold Circle, industry employee from the region who signs up at the which honors individuals who have served chapter’s information table. in the television industry for 50 years or The “Media Night” is held the first week of every more and have made a significant contribution to the month in Sacramento as a way for industry professionals industry. Robertson, owner of Mother Lode Communica- to get together and exchange information. tions, began his broadcasting career at KSL-TV in Salt continued on page 3 Off Camera, October 2005, page 1 NEXT ACADEMY FORUM KEVIN O’BRIEN’S BACK IN THE GAME Former KTVU “TV AD General Manager Kevin O’Brien has joined the SALES” Granite Broadcasting Corporation as a con- sultant to its stations on “People Meter Forum” programming acquisi- 9/22/04 KPIX Wed 11/2 tions and strategic sales Photo by Robert Mohr © 2004 initiatives for 2006. Granite owns eight What is the status of television advertising sales? broadcast stations Is California’s special election helping? nationwide, including Are ads sold on TV stations’ web pages the key to the KBWB (WB affiliate) in future? San Francisco and KSEE If you don’t work in the sales department, why should (NBC affiliate) in Fresno. you care? The corporation previ- These and other questions will be the focus of a ously owned KNTV forum on TV ad sales next month. (NBC-11) in San Jose The forum will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, before selling the station to General Electric (NBC parent Nov. 2, in the north studio at KPIX-TV, 855 Battery St., company) in May, 2002. San Francisco. O’Brien’s partnership with Granite comes shortly after It will feature panelists from sales departments as the company announced the pending sale of its WB well as general managers and station managers. stations in San Francisco and Detroit. W. Don The event is sponsored by NATAS’ Northern California Cornwell, Chief Executive Officer of Granite Broadcast- chapter. ing Corporation, says, “Kevin O’Brien is a gifted operator “There is probably no issue more important for people with over 38 years of broadcasting experience, including who work in the TV industry than the current state many years of direct experience and excellent relation- of advertising sales,” said David Mills, chapter presi- ships in the San Francisco and Detroit markets. His dent. “We want to provide a forum for discussion on this background in independent television and his contacts in issue that is vital to everyone in the television business.” the industry are very valuable and will greatly enhance The forum will be free to NATAS members as well as the current positive momentum at our stations.” non-members. O’Brien has kept a low public profile since being dismissed as President of the Meredith Broadcasting Group last October. In an unusual move, the company EMERALD YEH HONORED stated its Board of Directors terminated O’Brien for “violations of Meredith’s Equal Employment Opportunity The National Associa- policies.” tion for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) presented former KRON reporter Emerald Yeh NBC11 TRANSMITTER with its prestigious At midnight on Sep- Margaret Cork Award for tember 14th KNTV ceased her ground breaking operations from the Mt. documentary Lost Loma Prieta transmitter Childhood: Growing Up location and begin broad- in an Alcoholic Home. casting from it’s new The documentary, state-of-the-art facility on first aired on KRON in San Bruno Mountain, just San Francisco, is now south of San Francisco. being aired on PBS stations across the country as part of This improved or restored a public awareness campaign started by Yeh. NACoA over-the-air service to approximately 400,000 viewers also honored Jerry Moe, National Director of the Betty throughout the Bay Area. Ford Center Children’s Programs, whose efforts are From this new location NBC 11 will broadcast all recognized in Yeh’s program, for his three decades of analog and digital signals. This means viewers may be work with children and families affected by addiction. able to receive Channel 11’s regular analog service and The Margaret Cork Award was created in honor of one also see their digital and high-definition signals including of the pioneer researchers in the field of children of NBC11 Weather Plus, their 24-hour weather channel. alcoholics, whose seminal book The Forgotten Children, Most televisions with regular antennas will need to be helped catapult the plight of children of alcoholics into reprogrammed to activate channel 11. Viewers on cable the public eye. The award was presented to Yeh at the 3 were not affected by the relocation. Washington Club in Washington, D.C. on September 22nd. Off Camera, October 2005, page 2 CIRCLE INDUCTION 10/15 SILVER CIRCLE PROFILE continued from page 1 Lake City in 1951. JAN MOELLERING He spent a year as Promotion Man- ager for KTVU in Oakland before moving to KRON, where he remained for 18 years. Adams After a stint in Flagstaff as a professor in the Northern Arizona University’s communications program, Robertson returned to the Bay Area and worked three years as KQED’s Director of Corporate Communica- tions before starting his own firm, Mother Lode Communications. In “Moe” in the middle with former GM Stew Park 1996 he retired to the Gold Country, (Silver Circle ‘88) & present GM Linda Sullivan where he became marketing manager By Meredith Smith Bonavolonta for the Tuolomne County Film Com- mission. Robertson now lives in Jan “Moe” Moellering’s (Silver Circle ‘94) “15 Plantation, Florida. minutes of fame” began literally as the producer/host of Seven new members have been a 15-minute radio show about her high school that aired named to the Silver Circle, which every Sunday night on a local radio station. Feeding her honors NATAS members with 25 or fascination with broadcast, Jan enrolled at San Jose more years in the television industry. State University as one of only a handful of women They include Dan Adams, a reporter majoring in Radio & TV Production. at KXTV News 10 in Sacramento; Jan’s big break came in February 1959 during her Branson Dominic Bonavolonta, now an junior year when KNTV called the school looking for instructor at Ohlone College in Fre- students to work on a new contest called “Watch & Win.” mont, California, following his retire- Jan happily thumbed through the phone book and called ment from directing the nationally random South Bay households to ask if they could syndicated show “Extra”; Jim identify the famous face shown on-air. Branson, managing editor at KTVU Frank Darien, host of “Record Hop” (a live, 5-days- Fox 2 and former news writer at KPIX; a-week local program similar to “American Bandstand”), Kate Kelly, an anchor/reporter at quickly recognized Jan’s skills and asked her to be the show’s coordinator. She spent the next five years trying Kelly KPIX CBS 5; Doug McKnight, a producer and news director whose to avoid the camera, meeting famous musicians and career has included KGO-TV in San signing autographs in the grocery store for fans who saw Francisco, KICU in San Jose, and now her…on camera. is the development director at KAZU- “We had perfect timing. The show ended in January FM at California State University, 1964 with the ‘Twist’ and two weeks later The Beatles Monterey Bay; Nancy Osborne, an came to America,” said Jan. anchor/reporter at KFSN ABC 30 in Jan has spent the next 38 years in the Production Fresno; and Don Sharp, now news department. She was the “numbers lady” and among operation manager at KPIX, after other duties kept track of all of the tapes that came and McKnight several years at KRON. went out of the studio. Now in Programming, she Get your tickets in advance to help manages the program schedules and tries to keep induct the Gold and Silver Circle everyone up to date with the NBC program changes. Class of 2005. Saturday, October She remembers when KNTV was the first station in 15, at the Radisson Miyako Hotel the country to air an ad for Trojan condoms in the 70’s. in San Francisco, reception 11 a.m., She’s seen the transition from black & white film to color lunch at noon followed by the induc- cameras and color tape in the late 60’s to today’s all- tion ceremonies. Silver Circle mem- digital technology. “We used to receive commercial ber and KRON 4 anchor, Wendy instructions via the mail. Then when fax machines were Tokuda, will be the mistress of introduced we could make a change on the log in 30 Osborne ceremonies. minutes. Now, with e-mail, changing commercials is Guests will enjoy wine from practically instantaneous,” said Jan. Forest Glen Winery and a box of Jan has worked for 12 bosses and eight general See’s Candies to take home. Table managers at KNTV. “I’ve seen the station grow from a decorations will be provided by tiny station in San Jose to an NBC O&O in San Francisco Hoogasian Flowers. without getting out of my chair.” Tickets: E-mail: [email protected] What’s next for Jan “Moe”? or call (650) 341-7786. “I’ll stay as long as they want me. It’s still fun to Sharp come to work.” Off Camera, October 2005, page 3 COVERING “KATRINA” continued from page 1 was something nobody else could do.” stations) sent three crews to report just He adds, “It’s not just having a presence, for the owned stations, in addition to their stand up in New Orleans and be live. It’s regular affiliate service NewsChannel. having someone familiar to our audience “My first concern was safety,” says Sand- that they can relate to, who can cover ers. “I didn’t think I could assure their the story in a way that’s more relevant to safety if I sent somebody down there. them.” And I was already getting great service KTVU’s Chapuis says that’s what Ken from our team of NBC reporters on the Wayne’s reports added to his station’s scene. I thought my viewers were getting coverage. “The very first day they were just as good, and in some ways better there, they hooked up with the Menlo coverage.” Park and Oakland fire folks. He got on KRON news director Chris Lee says their boats and did rescues with them. his station worked closely with their Young And they got some really great, emo- Broadcasting sister station in Lafayette, tional stories with emergency crews from Louisiana, and CNN, which provided the bay area. Later, they hooked up with multiple live reporters and live feeds from CHP going door to door in New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi, 24/7. “I don’t and got some of the first footage of think having our own reporter with a ‘4 forced evacuations. It was great video ball’ on the mic flag would have given our that went out nationwide. It was some viewers any better coverage or under- of the best coverage of what our local standing of the story.” Lee adds, the crews were doing there.” decision had nothing to do with cost. KGO’s Keeshan agrees it’s the per- “Budget really wasn’t a consideration. The sonal stories that make the difference. only consideration is we’re retraining our “We had one of our former reporters, entire staff (to become reporter/photogra- Jim Wieder, working for ABC after the pher video journalists) and the timing hurricane. So he covered the wide view, wasn’t good for us to pull people out of ‘today’s developments’ of the disaster the station and send them to another every day. That allowed our reporters, state.” Mark Matthews and then Wayne Freed- But the stations that did send their man to focus on more personal stories. own crews, insist they provided their The close-up, people stories are what we viewers with insight to the story they can, and did do much better (than the could not have gotten otherwise. KPIX’s networks). From the moment Katrina Rosenheim explains, “I wanted particular hit, we showed our viewers the harsh types of stories from our reporters. reality of what people there were going Sydnie Kohara is a Louisiana native. She through, and what our bay area volun- grew up in a parish outside New Orleans, teers were doing to help them.” so she brought special expertise and There is one thing all five news emotional relevance to our coverage. Dr. directors agree on. All say they’re Kim Mulvihill, who I sent, was able to do extremely pleased and proud of the special reports on health issues— illness, coverage they offered Bay Area viewers care, and disease in the flood zone, which of the biggest domestic news story since 9/11. AFTER THE EYE OF THE STORM Covering the evacuation of New Orleans She had gone to New Orleans for the By Adam Housley a week of camping without a tent and same reason so many others flocked to the Correspondent without any sense of normalcy. “Big Easy.” Now her mother sat on a plane FOX News Here we also find hurricane stories. A headed for Houston, thousands of miles Baptist family leading a church volunteer from their Australian home. group, loading a basket full of diapers and As we took off, Sharon Cullington got the baby supplies. When they hear we are good news, answering her cell phone when headed for New Orleans, they say “God the airlines say you shouldn’t. With a pleas- bless, we’re just trying to do anything we ant gasp, her story becomes one of the few can to help.” bright spots. Sharon tells us her 22 year-old After loading up, we quickly drive east on daughter “is likely on a bus headed for Baton Interstate 10, heading into Louisiana. We Rouge. Thank God she’s alive.” pass semi after semi loaded with generators, Once we land, the first stop is the near- food, and water. In the westbound direction est super center grocery store. Inside, we busses, full of the lucky ones who made it stock up on everything that can withstand a out of New Orleans. week in a car without refrigeration. Basically continued on page 5 Off Camera, October 2005, page 4 REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK ‘KATRINA” continued from page 4 At this interstate off-ramp, where we In frustration and desperation, Tom, report today, water remains 5-6 feet a volunteer rescuer from the West Bank deep. Floating and submerged in it, I see just across the tires, garbage, oil, toys, diapers and in Mississippi River from downtown, yells some cases, bodies. I am told by one “Do you have any children inside?” The rescuer they don’t have time to recover woman replies “Just one.” the dead right now, so those found That’s when Tom erupts. “Ma’am, floating are tied to the tops of street you can’t stay here, you can’t keep your signs, only six inches or so above flood child here. These waters are gross. levels. There’s dead bodies, raw sewage, I have seen dogs swim to their deaths, oil....they’ll make your child sick!” people refuse to leave their two-story With that, the woman finally gives in. homes, the lower level filled with this It’s been a week of living with high cesspool called the flood. water. Her three year-old son is out of At night we drive with our guards and diapers and food is running low. I ask crew to each new live location. Through- her why she stayed, along with six other out this city I once knew well, there is a people on her block. She replies “I darkness and eeriness I have never felt thought the waters would go down, they here in my homeland. People lurk in had gone down before.” blackened streets; soldiers march with M- Tom tells me, “It is frustrating! We 16’s drawn; fires are the only lights that are trying to help these people; they glow in the blackness; homes creak from just can’t live like this. It is unsafe!” He the weight of the floodwater, and some- continues, “You think they’d want to where in the distance, a dog howls. This leave, but we have to plead with them cannot be real. This cannot continue for to get into the boat.” long, but to the disappointment of so Joe Green refuses to leave. He’s many, we are now into our eighth day. adamant about getting back into his row We just cross the Huey P. Long Bridge. boat and maneuvering back down This area of Jefferson Parish is mostly dry, Elysian Fields Avenue to his home filled a few trees into homes, some shallow with six feet of stale, polluted, wretched flooding and a burned business or two. flood water. With some power, some water and good As we stand on an off ramp of the 610 old American will, this part of New Orleans freeway, which was being used for a could be back to normal in a week or two. boat launch, Joe tells me, “I can’t leave Same for the West Bank, just across the my neighbor. He’s 73 and won’t come Mississippi River. That’s the good news. As out.” As a gust of stench fills my nose, I we arrive on Interstate 10 near the asked him how he can live in such Superdome, the real damage and death is horrific conditions—water in his home; clear. There are still groups of people his neighborhood is a cesspool of standing in line on the hot cement. Some garbage and junk and bodies and have been here for 5 days. All they have sewer. Joe replies, ”It’s not so bad.” is on their backs, or in small plastic I know his response isn’t heartfelt; grocery bags. Garbage and filth is every- there’s a reason Joe won’t leave. He where. asks for my cell phone and somehow Adam Housley is a member our phone gets through. On the other and former Governor of the SF/ end, his wife Sadie. She’s alive and NorCal NATAS Chapter. well, living in a shelter in Houston. With that news, Joe changes. His eyes well up and he seems satisfied. I ask him if knowing his wife won’t come home to an empty house, and knowing she is alive and well makes his decision different. He lets out a deep sigh of relief and replies, “Yes.” Joe had changed his mind and made the right decision. With that, he gets back into his canoe, tells me thanks and goodbye, and heads down the street intent on convincing his neighbor to leave. The constant hum of helicopters echoes through flooded neighborhoods, as they drop down to inspect homes that might still house people too stubborn, or too weak to escape. As they hover into position, spray from polluted waters peppers rescuers and their boats. The volunteers have come from all over. We have met some JOB BANK at www.emmysf.tv from Phoenix, California, Arkansas and Texas. Off Camera, October 2005, page 5 BROADCAST GOES WIRELESS By Keith Sanders

1949 1960 1971 1988 Is your cell phone already maxed out such as CBS, NBC or ABC, SmartVideo with downloaded ring tones, personal Chief Executive Richard Bennett snapshots, e-mails & games? Well it’s said. time to upgrade the flash card because 2005 Last month MobiTV, the world’s first television broadcasts are coming to your television network providing live cell phone! television on mobile phones, received A number of service providers have an Emmy® Award by the Academy of been buying up spectrum and are ready Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS). to roll out television broadcast subscrip- The Emmy® Award for Outstanding tion service to millions of cell phone Achievement in Engineering Develop- users. You could soon be watching your ment was issued to recognize develop- favorite TV show in all its glory on that ments that are so innovative in nature one-inch screen. Impossible you say? as to have materially affected the Who are these companies? Why are transmission, recording and reception they needed? For an answer let’s look at of television. MobiTV received this the history of portable television. award at the 2005 Primetime Emmy® Most early TVs were large pieces of Creative Arts Awards ceremony that furniture containing dozens of vacuum was held September 11 at the Shrine tubes and were about as portable as a Auditorium in Los Angeles. “I believe dining room table. But in 1949 Motorola MobiTV set the standard and started built a relatively small “Suitcase” set the race for mobile television,” said portable, housed in a luggage case. Brian Seth Hurst, co-governor, TV manufacturers continued to build Interactive Media Peer Group for ATAS. portables because they were Broadcast television is another type popular…and the portables grew smaller. of content that wireless carriers will bill Motorola used early transistor technol- for, just like long distance calls, pho- ogy in 1960 to build a 19-inch Astronaut tos, e-mails, etc. It remains unclear if television that was the first large-screen, user demand will make this service a cordless portable TV. They even grew success. But if mobile television on cell smaller. Panasonic drastically shrank the phones becomes as popular as size of portable TVs in 1971 with the podcasting, I may have to trade in my fully transistorized Model TR-001 that featured a minia- ear buds for prescription lenses. ture 1-1/2" screen. And smaller. The first Sony “Watch- man” was built in 1988 using integrated circuits and sporting a black-and-white flat screen. These portable TVs were very different from each other, but no matter their size they all received analog COMMERCIALS IN HD signals. Now as portable TVs have continued to shrink, They don’t know if it was the first in the nation, but it’s they’ve become digital cell phones. These cell phones a Northern California first. During September’s premier cannot receive analog television signals. The analog of “Lost”, KGO-TV in San Francisco (ABC O&O) aired a broadcast signals need to be broken up into small digital Mercedes Benz commercial that was shot, produced, and packets of information…and that’s where the new service broadcast in full HDTV. Viewers with HDTV sets who get providers come in. their television signal over the air, via Comcast HD Companies like MobiTV (Sprint), GoTV, Verizon signal, or through Direct TV (with an HD waiver), saw the Wireless, Nokia, SmartVideo Technologies & MediaFLO commercial during the 9:15pm and 9:45pm breaks in USA (QualComm) would like to send you broadcast video KGO’s digital channel. All other viewers watching analog programming for a fee. “It’s the closest thing in the television signals, saw the same commercial in its mobile media arena to a traditional broadcast network” standard format. Off Camera, October 2005, page 6 MORE HAWAII MOVES ON THE MOVE KHNL-TV (NBC-Hawaii) morning Julie Luck has left her weekend anchor Lyle Galdeira will leave the anchor/reporter job at KRON in San station after November sweeps to work Francisco, to become the fulltime in real estate. Gladeira has been primary anchor at the Fox O&O in with KHNL for 10 years as anchor and Winston-Salem North Carolina, WGHP. consumer reporter. Julie will anchor the 5,6 and 10pm Last month, we told you KGMB News & newscasts. Health Reporter Angela Keen was Sandy Lee returns to the hectic Galdeira leaving to pursue other opportunities. Luck newsroom environment as managing Turns out that opportunity was just editor at CBS O&O, KPIX-TV in San down the street. Keen is jumping from Francisco. Sandy has been producing CBS in Honolulu to NBC, KHNL News 8. episodes for Edelman Productions, but Keen worked at KGMB 9 for nearly 12 previously worked as a producer for years with many duties including an- KGO-TV’s 7 On Your Side Consumer choring, medical reporting, and Unit, and as Executive Producer for weathercasting. Keen will be co-host special projects at KRON-TV. and weathercaster for “News 8 Today,” Ron Comings has landed on his the station’s morning show. She will also Comings feet in Hawaii, as the new news director Keen serve as the station’s health reporter. of Emmis-owned FOX affiliate KHON- TV. Ron left KXTV in Sacramento back in June, after seven years at the helm RORKE LEVY GOES CORP. of that Gannett newsroom. Ron is now After completing the third season of the KHON’s third news director in three Spark (KQED/BAVC), Pamela Rorke years. Levy is moving on to a staff position as Gary Gunter has left his main Creative Director/Executive Producer at anchor job at KRCR-TV in Redding, CA, The Kenwood Group, a creative agency to become news director of KDBC-TV, El Gunter in San Francisco specializing in market- Paso, TX. No word yet on Gary’s ing events and video for major corpora- replacement in Redding. tions like Intel, Sun, Seagate, and Alan Wang joins KGO-TV, the ABC Square Enix. Pam says “While I miss O&O in San Francisco, as Saturday working on Spark, I’ve already had an opportunity to morning anchor and nightside reporter. involve artists featured on Spark in corporate events. Alan leaves WSB in Atlanta. Right now, artist David Best — who is renowned for the Abigail Sterling Vazquez also giant temple structures he builds for Burning Man each joins KPIX-TV as a special project year — is building a stage set for a corporate event I’m Wang producer, from KRON-TV. Abigail has doing at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas for an Israeli also worked for KTVU in Oakland, KGO software company, Mercury.The music for that same in San Francisco, WMAQ in Chicago, and event will be provided by Bay Area vocal percussionist for the CBS news bureau in Rome. Kid Beyond.” Prior to KQED Pam was at KRON 4 as EP. Keith Sanders, NATAS vice presi- dent for San Jose and our annual Emmy® show producer has joined the RAY DOLBY academic world, as media producer for San Jose State University. Sanders LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT Donna Fendrick will join KOLO-TV in Reno as sports director and sports anchor. Donna has been a sports San Francisco’s Ray anchor/reporter in Raleigh-Durham, Albany, Hartford- Dolby, co-creator of the New Haven and Portland, Maine. This is her first sports first video tape recorder at director position AMPEX and later Dolby Labs, received the National Television Academy’s Lifetime Achievement © Marc Bryan-BrownAward at the 2005 2005 Tech- nology and Engineering Emmy® Awards on Sept. 29th in Princeton, NJ. Ray received the San Francisco/Northern Califor- nia Chapter Governors’ Award in 1988.

© Marc Bryan-Brown 2005 Off Camera, October 2005, page 7 “VJ REVOLUTION” TOPIC OF NorCAL RTNDA CONFERENCE & AWARDS ON SAT. 10/22

If you work in television news Mark Jones, KRON 4, Tamar Maghdissian, KHSL 12, and haven’t yet heard the title Chico and moderator Harry Fuller. “VJ” you will. VJ is short for Video Harry Fuller has spent the four Journalist, a television reporter years since 9-11 covering European who works alone with a small news and necessarily the rest of the digital video camera and a laptop world’s reactions to America’s role in editing system. VJ conversion is world economics and politics as being marketed to stations as a executive producer and assignment strategy to cut production costs by editor for CNBC Europe. He will 20 to 70 percent while improving share impressions at the luncheon. output quality. Detractors say it’s a Harry has been around Bay Area TV way to cut TV jobs and will lower for years working at KGO, KPIX and the quality of journalism. The BBC ZDTV. has transitioned to video journal- Fuller Other panels include Covering the Disaster: ists and KRON-TV in San Francisco ”Katrina;” A Foot in the Door; One-on-One Tape will soon be the first major market Critique; and tours of ABC Radio & TV, CBS 5, KCBS station to make the change. What Radio and the NBC 11 and Telemundo 48 SF Bureau. does it mean for television news The day ends with dinner and presentation of the and your job? 24Th NorCal RTNDA Awards at the Hyatt at We’ll find out on Saturday, Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. KGO Radio host October 22nd at the ABC Broad- and KGO ABC 7 anchor Pete Wilson will host the event. cast Center in San Francisco. Complete information and registration on NorCal’s The site of the 24th NorCal website at: www.norcalrtnda.com or call 650-341- Rosenblum RTNDA Conference. 9978. Panelists include the man behind the “VJ Revolution” Michael Rosenblum along with KRON 4 news director Chris Lee, Reporter: Wayne Freedman, KGO ABC 7;

7 THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

OFFICERS: David Mills, KPIX, President Lynn R Friedman, KGO, VP, SF Keith Sanders, Perfect Pitch TV, VP, SJ Dan Adams, KXTV, VP, Sacramento

Nancy Osborne, KFSN, VP, Fresno SAN FRANCSISCO Terri Russell, KOLO, VP, Reno NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Pamela Young, KITV, VP, Hawaii 4317 Camden Avenue Janice Edwards, KNTV, Secretary San Mateo, CA 94403 Sharon Navratil, KTVU, Treasurer (650) 341-7786 F: (650) 372-0279 NATIONAL TRUSTEES: Linda Giannecchini, KQED (Museum) Terry Lowry, LaCosse Productions Alison Gibson, Media Cool (Education) Tamar Maghdissian, KHSL Cynthia Zeiden, Zeiden Media (Activities) Deanne Moenster-Poitras, KTVU GOVERNORS: John Murray, JM Communications Terri Amos, Cornerstone Prod. (Membership) John Odell, CCSF Bob Anderson, KBWB Sheraz Sadiq, KQED Duncan Armstrong, KHNL Javier Valencia, KRON (Awards) Dan Ashley, KGO COMMITTEE CHAIRS: (not listed above) Brian Avery, Avery Media John Catchings, Catchings & Assoc. Samuel Belilty, KFTV (Museum) John Burgess, KFTY Darryl Cohen, Cohen & Cooper (Legal) Thomas Drayton, KTXL James Spalding, Spalding & Co., (Finance) Janice Edwards, KNTV Rick Zanardi, Notra Dame de Namur (Publicity) Deirdre Fitzpatrick, KCRA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Albert Garcia, KUVS Darryl R. Compton, NATAS Bob Goldberger, KGO Stewart Heller, York Productions Off Camera Valeria Hernandez, KDTV Bob Goldberger, Editor Justin Kanno, KOLO Darryl Compton, Publisher Jack LiVolsi, KBWB (Publicity) Robert Mohr, Photographer Ronald Louie, KTVU (Alt. Trustee) Off Camera, October 2005, page 8