WBZ Florida

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:32:06 -0500, Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com> said:

> (unannounced) from Florida than I was when I first got to WBZ and saw one 
> reporter heading out to the parking lot at 4:55 to do a 5 AM "live from" 
> report from the cell phone in his car just outside the back door.

Live from Brighton I'm Joe Schmoe?

I'm always amused when I see the TV stations do their Obligatory Live
Shots on a story that doesn't have any specific location; if you know
the neighborhoods in the vicinity of 1170 Soldiers Field Road, 5 TV
Place, 7 Bulfinch Place, 75 Morrissey Blvd., and 1000 Providence
Highway, it's not too difficult to figure out that the crews didn't
travel very far.  If I'm watching channel 4 and it's the generic
``people stocking up before the big storm'' story, nine times out of
ten it will be ``reporter standing in the parking lot of the Brighton
Shaw's before the big storm''.  Once in a while perhaps they'll go to
Stop & Shop instead (but that's a whole half-mile farther to drive).

I think the weather people tend to be more forthright about it: they
do their Obligatory Live Shots right out the back door and usually say
so.

-GAWollman