[Scan-DC] 4, 5, 7, 9 To Share News Chopper

[michael rumberg]

I noticed in a commercial last night on WRC about its news "team" that the helicopter is wearing only Channel 4 livery.  I guess the other stations only care about video and not showing off they have any capability - even if borrowed.



> From: alan at henney.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:38:57 -0400
> Subject: [Scan-DC] 4, 5, 7, 9 To Share News Chopper
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> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 5:22 PM
> Subject: This is low-class!
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> 4, 5, 7, 9 To Share News Chopper - 6/19 - DCRTV hears about some changes with DC TV's news and traffic copters. Apparently, the Sky 9 helicopter being leased from Metro Traffic by Channel 9/WUSA is going to Miami. We're told that that bird has also been recently feeding news video to Channel 7/WJLA, which wants out the deal. Instead, 7 will now get its copter video from Channel 4/WRC's Chopper 4. In fact, we hear that the WRC bird is providing video for all of DC TV's news stations - 4, 5, 7, and 9 - via the new joint news consortium. "We were calling it Chopper 495, but we're not sure how to work 7 into it and still have it come out cutsie," a local TV news source tells DCRTV. "I find it amazing that in the DC market, one helicopter is going to provide video for everybody." With Sky 9 heading south, "veteran traffic reporter and videographer Bill Michaels (real name Bill Goldstein) has decided that 25 years in radio is enough. He declined the offer to take a just-vacated tra
>  ffic reporter position in one of the planes," we're told.....
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