Comments on: The old newsroom

By: itpdude

itpdude — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:37:13 +0000

Leroy was a gem. I remember him doing some piece on all the Peachtrees in Atlanta.

By: sayejibley

sayejibley — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:38:55 +0000

Funny how everything has changed except the technology. SAT recieve looks exactly the same. Also, I think I saw a picture of Callie Lubrant as a baby in there. I believe she’s in college now…

By: Scott Hedeen

Scott Hedeen — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:49:02 +0000

love me some Jim Shuler sightings.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:25:00 +0000

I always respected WAGA – with anchors like Jim Axel, Paul Shields, Chuck Moore and Pam Martin, they knew the city like a native. The station kept good people and they became family. (I was driving through Sandy Springs one day in the 70′s when I saw Paul Shields walking away from his car that had broken down. I gave him a ride back home and he was as nice as could be.) And keeping guys like Leroy Powell and Guy Sharpe around made it a local station that wasn’t ashamed to be in the South. Later, WAGA’s audio engineer, Harvey Morris, taught me a lot about audio and transmitters, for which I will be forever grateful. BTW Doug, watching your work always made me smile – you are a master.

By: Wrangler of Found Light

Wrangler of Found Light — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:03:46 +0000

As a new comer to the city that was pretty cool LAF.

By: Atlanta blogs today | Fresh Loaf

Atlanta blogs today | Fresh Loaf — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:34:51 +0000

[...] to have Jim Powell disqualified from the Public Service Commission election. — Doug Richards at Live Apartment Fire has dug up a 15-year-old “inside the newsroom” video produced by WAGA-TV. For those who [...]

By: RonBurgundy

RonBurgundy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:04:56 +0000

Jim Shuler!!! Ken McLeod!!! I miss those guys. Cynthia Goode and Sally Sears, not so much. Lord could those two women grate on you.

By: JasonC

JasonC — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:17:14 +0000

Leroy Powell was great. Either WAGA or WSB created a board game back in the early-mid-80s based on being a journalist. I saw one a few years ago, it was a trip down memory lane for someone who grew up in ATL.

By: rptrcub

rptrcub — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:03:32 +0000

Thank you — when I look at this, I have wonderful childhood memories (yeah yeah yeah, I’m young) of back when we didn’t have cable, and were living in Clayton County where the planes flying to and from ATL messed with the reception. 2, 5, 8, 11, 17, 30, 36 and 46 were all we had (we couldn’t pick up 69 down there); 5 was still with CBS, 36 was still with FOX and 46 showed syndicated programming like ST:TNG. Those frequencies were where I was infected with the news bug — even though it manifested itself in the virulent newspaper strain.

By: David K.

David K. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:17:49 +0000

Wow… This is great… Thanks for the blast from the past (who knew Brenda Wood was so old? she still looks very young!)