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Tim Boyum and Jane Rogers reporting from the 5pm news set. Both have moved on to larger assignments. Jane is now the director at the Humboldt State Office of Community Relations |
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Dan Shutte (right) interviews a cow, reporting live from Ferndale at the Humboldt county fair. News is reported from the fair every year but the news truck is always parked in the same spot, the only location that does not have interference on the microwave signal. |
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Mannie Machado gives directions to Colin Resch reporting live on the Arcata baseball field. Crabs baseball is a popular sports item. Microwave gets out great from here, but just across the road at Humboldt State, it doesn't work at all. |
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Katie Marzzullo delivers newscast while Ernie Earnshaw floor directs. |
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KIEM newscasts are produced each evening from this control room. Technical staff includes operators for audio mixer, TD (vision mixer), CG (graphics overlays) and director. Videotape playback requires a loading operator in Master Control. A camera operator and floor director work in the studio. During the day it doubles as a production center for making new commercials. Rhett Bice is shown preparing to edit a videotape. |
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The news department has brand new Suzuki stationwagons. One is white the other silver. 7 day a week news coverage puts a lot of mileage on the vehicles. For longer more rugged trips into Del Norte and southern Humboldt, there is a black Forerunner SUV. |
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Live news as it happens, rain or shine. |
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KIEM can also broadcast LIVE breaking national news thanks to its permanent high quality connection to the NBC television network satellites. Here Tom Brokow reports on the events of September 11, and NBC provided continuous coverage until a power outage closed down network operation on the evening of September 14. During this time, MSNBC provided backup programming. |
| Photos by Larry Dean |
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