The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 82

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ng What' "if' r''afV -M I VA X-' i i Even vkwari with old TV will notice 7 tlw high-tech sot and home (Hff speakers to mqierience) Showing the newsroom is something -networks have done for years 1 ever since CNN's visionary first president Reese Schonfeld npped the lid off the sardine can in 7 1980 -XX 77 7 XMBC had pat anchor desk overkxddng its newsroom 'downtown but the new set' will fed like it has been plopped down in die middle of everything This "will create a aenre pf Godsey says: rand some shots our audience has never seen He has bought a wirdess handheld '7 Camera that can rove the hah- ways taking shots of the news-' room or anywhere else in die building7: 7 Bdiind the scales the 170- phis employees of KMBC KCWB and corporate owner Hearst-Aie TWeviskm are experiencing an upgrade I 5 pjn on Thursday JCMBC Channel will launch lfanca Cit first hii-definition newscast fipm its new facility' The change will be obvious eyed to viewers not watching mW up on LegaT reruns? -The great dnng abend -summefi 7 -best new show is you can jump in anytime' The ac--: '-tion doesn't move too quickly that would distract horn the 7stunmngiy v'au- re-cremation of i960 New York and each hour is 'pretty- well etH dosed though as you might guess 7 diere are rewards to not missing A Single week thi week epi-sode 9 pun on AMO adman Don Draper(oa Hamm) finds himself juggling three yvomen: his depressive wife who's stuck at home r' ail day Demi in die Village and 1 might be called Makeoverl Wuk flexiUe news set where the cameras and aiw-finf desk ran be rotated toafier viewers different glimpses into the wide- open newstocun An inqaoved weather' center will not only difer more canty but eliminate the long walk Bryan Bujy had ta take fiom the anchor desk to die green screen' at Channel 9s downtown studios 7 But before we get to the Tha statlon new facility Is near Swope Park newsroom Wayne Godsey Their offices at the lyric Op- building where Channel 9 has been since the 1950s were like a TV smtion turned on its side Employees were spread out over six floors and some' offices spilled over to a build- ing acron Central Street In their new two-story workspace departments are ar- efficiently ranged efficiently me miit 'the department- store -X heiress thegenenlmanagaofKMBG- entire project from die begin- tors will work side by side even say promiscuously with: KCWE is walking me through ning Even then in the spring adjacent to the news set and few walls and i sL LI LJ 4AAJ 1 1 I ill IL 1 'la I I an overhang that the rest of his new headquar- of 20Q4 When all he had were will be visible in the bade-: lets sales and promotion ryeRdownint peo- ters pointing out features like blueprints he was eager to ground beneath a halo of flat- pie look or yefl down into the whose Jewish ness suddenly in- pon Draper Juggles a terests Don (but wife (January Jones then trying from top) glrihrMnd to dose die Is- (Rosomarto Da Witt) raeli tourism iic- and client (Haggle count) Mff) on -Mad Man" he's trying to sell me the place show how the exterior would screen displays The anchor newsroom think Tm iunny be feshumed after the terra desk on vriieels and in the Secure parking a helipad fiir showiiK jjou this" he says as cotta-dled buildings that adorn opening weeks expect to see it Johnny Rowlands to park hb we walk into a tastefully ap- the Country C3ub Plaza Tbday moved around to show a va- bird and a diesel-powered pointed 'employee restroom- he points out the framed pho-? riety of baddrops during eve- badoq generator are just three FRIDAY It has been a long He also points out the higb- tos in the hallway showing off ning newscasts (Morning of the amenities here that tech conference rooms the KansasC landmarks andthe news will move to the new stu- KMBC get at the' -V- airy break room and the park- beauty of the Ozarks and Flint dio on Friday) ing lot where a reporter can Hills A ass wall more eye cant tell you whm a dra- get out ofber can walk through But the heart of the pew fa- canty will separate me matkally different feel this Yt hot dreary summer but tonight the drought will end as "Real Time With Bll 7 returns at 10 pjn on HBa I missed two doon and be at her desk in dlitv the newsroom which newsroom from editing rooms Godsey Says seconds has been reorganized around a inchiding one equipped fix Begfoning Thursday howev- Cleaty Godsey foll rf large circular desk where the booming 51 surround sound ey well know bow dramat-house pride He supervised the assignment and Internet edi- (which need both HDTV ically different it looks O- Aanm Barnhart TheStar-' Maher PMfPMNPMH 3 I irAiif I.