KYTV Then
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There wasn't much to the newsroom in 1960 when I arrived. It was housed in a small office maybe 12 by 15 feet in size. Equipment included the indispensable Associated Press wire machine, the AP photofax (which delivered most of the national news pictures for a number of years), some film editing equipment, a couple of typewriters and drawers for slides (which were used a lot).
The news department moved to a new location when an addition was added on the west side of the station. It was probably six to eight times larger than the old office. A darkroom for processing film was a part of the new facility. Each newsman had his own desk and typewriter. Wally Alexander, Ken Cansler, and Jack Murray are show here. Yes, the department had expanded from its original two-man team.
Almost as indispensable as the AP newswire machine was the AP photofax. With it the news department would receive the same photos received by the newspaper. They would be stapled onto a flip card and photographed by a camera in the studio during the newscast. On that November day when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, KYTV News had pictures on the air from the AP photofax before film was broadcast by NBC. Added later to the information sources was a teletype hookup with the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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