The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 125

CAMERAS, WIRES, AIRPLANES Award-Winning News WKY-TV presented Oklahoma City's first tcwscast way back in 1949. mine famous newsmen lave Joined the station's llumni ranks. Men like Frank McGee, 3ob Gamble, Dick John, Scott Berner and Houston -all helped establish the station as a leader in tele-'ision news. The station's system of nesenting film of local lews stories was begun in .950 and has developed nlo one of the most compete in the industry. The department, headed iy news director Ernie Ichultz, counts nine full-ime newsmen.

Four of Schultvc. Virgil )ominic. Jack Ogle and -on Becker have regular cws telecasts. Others in the department, are Cliff Adkins, i- i e-winning photographer: Bruce Hinson, Jerry Manning. Dave Davis and John Russell, all photo journalists, All of the men in the department are trained to report and take film of any event they might be called upon to cover.

In addition to their regular news sources. the WKY-TV news department uses Associated Press and United Press International wire services, although any wire release is re-written locally for better television presentation. All of these points-news men, wire services, coverage by camera have combined to make WKY-TV a nationally-recognized Ernie Schultz presents a news telecast one of WKY-TV'j studios. leader In the television news field, station management said. NBC-TV calls' upon the station to cover area events for the network.

It was NBC that called upon WKY-TV to cover a major news story in Austin, Texasthus passing up possible coverage by Fort Worth, Dallas or San Antonio television stations. Schultz, a licensed pilot, has devised a method whereby he can drop news film onto a studio parking lot from an aircraft another way to get WKY-TV news to its viewing audience first. WKY-TV "fed" 36 stories to NBC-TV in New York during 1964, practically a record for any NBC affiliate. Many of the stories and related film were shown on the'; "Huntley-Brinkley'' newscast and seen by millions of American television viewers. Virgil Dominic was Invited to Paris.

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