MORE ON RECORDED NEWSCASTS

posted by James Reel

    KUAT/KUAZ newsman Nelson Warnell protests being lumped among the people who record their newscasts a few minutes before air time:
    "FYI, I ALWAYS do my newscasts live (except for the 5:04 because Bill Pitts feels more comfortable having it in the audio vault). I feel it is a great disservice to our listeners to do otherwise. I can think of hundreds of times I've changed a newscast at the last minute because of a breaking story."
    Indeed, I can second this comment from Robert Rappaport:
    "You (James) personally have witnessed, on numerous occassions, how I had to literally throw a local story in the air after NPR ran the same story in the last position of the network newscast. One always has to listen to prevent a flub, such as a repeated story. Unfortunately NPR newscasts air first, so a repeat is OUR mistake."