Stan Chambers sits down with TVLesson and tells on what a day is like for a reporter. He talks about his experiences with breaking news and scheduled news and talks about deadlines.
Transcript
Well I think there are variations. Here at KTLA, I�m not doing the breaking news like I did for so many years. Most of them is listening to the police radio and going on scheduled stories. You go to the city council, you go to the Hollywood and various other things that are going on. You do brief stories, a minute and a half sometimes they go two minutes. You do that, and you have to keep in mind that your broadcast is at 5:30. So when it gets to be 1 o clock, you better have your story finished and written and know what you want to do, if you�re in the field, you have the television capability to sending a closed circuit back to the station. You�ve written your script, you�ve shot your video, you send your thing to the stations and they edit it and put it on the air. It takes a chain of people to do the right thing to get the right report on the 6 o clock news.
Stan Chambers has been with KTLA nearly as long as it has been on the air -- 60 years! And in a major market like Los Angeles, where news personalities come and go almost as quickly as one switches channels, such longevity is no small accomplishment. In six decades of reporting for KTLA, Stan has covered every major news event in and around L.A., including political elections, floods, earthquakes, human tragedies, riots, assassinations and fires.
