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[Bill O'Neill]

Doug Drown wrote:
> (I remember the first time I saw a new, nicely FILMED "NewsCenter 6" 
> intro ---  back in the early '80s, I think --- that was comparable to 
> stuff I'd seen in Boston ten years earlier, and I went, "Whoooooo.")

It would be great to see those old newscasts again. Just for yucks.  The 
manual weather maps. One Boston channel had their maps on a three-sided 
structure that rotated and had 'stops' when a map was facing front. 
Once, the guy gave it too hard of a spin and it passed the next map and 
kept right on going.  Once, Gus over at 9 tapped his map and the magnets 
fell off. Talk about a high to low.   WBZ had a slider map with multiple 
layers on tracks that would occasion to get 'stuck' as the guy was 
trying to coolly move on to the next one.  OTOH, their forecasts were 
fairly accurate and that's what really mattered.  Superimposed upon any 
legacy newscast discussion is the fact that at that point in time, the 
role local news people played in the community at large eclipses 
anything we would see now.

Bill O'Neill