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Driving my venerable old friend Unit 5, a 1999 GMC Suburban live truck on Rock Creek Parkway past the Kennedy Center on my way to a story tonight around 7:15pm, I began to smell smoke. I turned on the cabin lights to see an alarming amount of smoke filling the cabin. I slammed on the brakes...

Here's our story tonight: we are also going to try to put his entire interview on the web, it's chilling. Yay Maryland!

I do not know the fellow or his name, but I responded to the report of a pedestrian struck call at 17th & Constitution SW at 1pm today. My heart sank when I saw the tripod, porta-brace and camera in the street. If I had to guess he's got a messed up leg and some back/spinal injuries...

When the backpack journalist / multi media journalist wave crashed on our shore I, like my co-workers, imagined never would another photog be hired at WUSA. Imagine our shock when in the last month not one but two photogs positions have been opened and need to be filled. The ads read in...

It was a pretty normal day for me, got up, made breakfast & packed a lunch for the little ones, saw them to the bus. Went back and took a nap 'cause I stayed up too late last night. Around noon I was off to Brunswick to fill a small list from Superfresh then for a trim from John at my favorite...

Chopper apparently crashed in Delaware Friday. Cut 'n paste from www.dcrtv.com Richmond TV Chopper Crashes In Delaware - 3/24 - AP reports that four people suffered minor injuries when a TV news helicopter crash-landed in a field late Friday afternoon near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The chopper...

Okay Mythbusters on Discovery had a holiday special last night and one of the things they were trying to investigate was if RF from a transmitter would be enough to cook food. So what do they do? They strapped a turkey to the front of an ENG microwave dish on some local tv station's truck...

Okay it's 4:20 in the AM and I just got home from the Webb hq for election selection night. God I hate elections (from a professional standpoint, not a patriotic standpoint.) We all need a drink. This Saturday night! DC folks! Kev, pick a place for us and lets all hook up eh?

According to the website DCRTV WBAL photog Mark DeLeon passed. My heartiest condolances to all involved; a great man and a true gentleman.

With all the collective knowlwedge of the contributors here I wonder if a B-Roll Wiki might not be a bad idea. Techniques, technical knowledge, history - might be a real resource! Of course, it's easy to suggest the idea, I have no idea how hard that is to set up. If it's a real pain then...

I know we have a lot of WBOC alumni here; this just came in on DCRTV: Anchor Turmoil At 16 - 2/24 - News Blues sheds more light on the sudden removal of news anchor Steve Summers earlier this week at Salisbury MD's Channel 16/ WBOC. "Twenty minutes before the 6 PM news, (Summers) got up from...

For all you WBOC and WMDT graduates from the great Eastern Shore, a legend has passed - Baltimore Sun Purdue Obit I know it's not he Pope or Terry but it does mean a little to those who knew.

It can be real or imagined, but detail what would be your best 'business' day and why. What would it mean to you? What would it mean to your audience? Why? As the year turns a little populus mass introspection might be nice -

(This is a copy from Drudge / verbatim . . .) By KASEY JONES, Associated Press Writer BALTIMORE - The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair Broadcast Group said he was fired Monday after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry...

I'll be there, operating the WJZ Sat Truck, starting Sunday, for a week or two. Look me up!

From our local DCRTV info site : As a competitor I am curious if there is any background on this ND - Thanks! [ September 04, 2003, 09:14 AM: Message edited by: 2gigch1 ]