[HN Gopher] KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles' original television sta...
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       KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles' original television station
        
       Author : robbiet480
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-02-19 08:17 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.latimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.latimes.com)
        
       | vondur wrote:
       | I liked Stu Nahan, the sports reporter for Channel 5 for 10 years
       | or so. Stu even ended up on Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
        
       | whartung wrote:
       | I always felt that KTLA had more of a character as a station than
       | the other local stations (KCAL 9, KCOP 13, Metromedia 11 turned
       | in to Fox 11 a long time ago). No doubt this is partly due to the
       | continuity they've maintained with the Rose Parade coverage. The
       | other stations were just outlets for TV shows. KTLA felt more
       | local.
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       | I didn't watch a lot of any of these, honestly, so it's just a
       | gut feeling of them.
       | 
       | Interesting retrospective in the article.
        
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       | graupel wrote:
       | The story of how KTLA developed the first live news helicopter is
       | an amazing story in itself, well worth reading if you are
       | interested in KTLA or broadcast ENG.
       | 
       | https://www.smecc.org/ktla_telecopter.htm
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       | Visiting the current KTLA studio at Sunset Bronson got way more
       | complicated after Netflix moved in, but the lot is a huge part of
       | TV history.
        
       | bastardoperator wrote:
       | Where is Barbera Beck! Love KTLA news.
        
       | keane wrote:
       | I don't know what it is about the culture of broadcast journalism
       | and ENG that is so appealing. Despite not working in the
       | industry, I've loved films like Broadcast News where I've felt
       | great affinity to the struggle of it all and books like Bob
       | Dotson's Make It Memorable where I've picked up lingo like "stand
       | ups". I think it's maybe the duck-taped-together underdog feel
       | and (approximate) egalitarianism of the culture but I can't quite
       | put my finger on it.
        
         | erulabs wrote:
         | It's also one of the rare careers that still feels heroic.
         | Everyone knows we need good journalists - it might be the last
         | thing everyone agrees on.
        
           | KerrAvon wrote:
           | Never talked to a Trump voter?
        
             | erulabs wrote:
             | Isn't that their _main_ argument? They say  "today's
             | journalists are bad at journalism" not "journalism is bad".
             | "Fake news" with a negative intonation must imply that it's
             | _bad_ to fake something so important?
        
           | mike50 wrote:
           | TV news is barely journalism nowadays. It's a mechanical Turk
           | text to speech. Local broadcast stations are marginally
           | better IF you are in or near a major city.
        
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