Comments on: Bye bye, Skycam http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/ Suspicious packages, and more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:55:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Terry Terrell http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-5353 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:21:38 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-5353 I was Bruce Erion’s backup pilot during the heyday of the SkyCam years, and I admired him tremendously at the time. I flew his helicopter safely, and managed to get photographer Bruce Mason to the locations he needed to shoot, but I could never hope to emulate the on air showmanship that Erion literally invented when he orchestrated his broadcasts from SkyCam. Nowadays, Erion flies LifeFlight missions for me, and I admire him more than ever!

]]> By: 10 Atlanta media moments, 2009 « live apartment fire http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-4031 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:18:57 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-4031 [...] Layoffs and pay cuts at WAGA and WXIA; furloughs at Gannett; and the combining of photog and helicopter [...]

]]> By: Big in Japan « live apartment fire http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-3652 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:30:34 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-3652 [...] noted in the space earlier, WXIA now shares helicopter services with WAGA.  Aeriel video is now shot [...]

]]> By: steve http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-3610 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:26:32 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-3610 I met Bruce Erion after my fathers company painted skycam in the 80′s and i was 13 years old. I was learning to fly at a small airport bear creek in Hampton Georgia where we had our paint business. I also had a interest in tv. Bruce and Tracy Miller allowed me on many many occassions to ride along in skycam during thier daily duties and many members of the 11alive team took me under their mentorship and taught me everyting about tv news. Because of Bruce, Tracy and all the others I graduated High school with a job at WPBF ABC in West Palm Beach as a videographer, I later joined WSVN, WTVJ, in Miami and returned home to Atlanta to WAGA and WSB. I now have returned to aviation with two companies of my own painting commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft. I owe my success to a trully great man BRUCE ERION.

]]> By: newsmanatl http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-2724 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:56:10 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-2724 I haven’t talked to my old friend Bruce Erion in a long time, but I did find a photo of him just now using Google Images.

It appears he’s learned how to fly without the chopper.

http://footflyer.com/Articles/News/2007-03-05BruceErion.JPG

[[ That was the only photo I could find of him. Couldn't bring myself to use it. -- LAF ]]

]]> By: CB Hackworth http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-2721 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:04:58 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-2721 Bruce Mason is one of the unsung heroes of television news in Atlanta.

]]> By: CB Hackworth http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-2720 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:03:29 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-2720 A flying reporter with a photog strapped to the chopper… John Pruitt… and a hottie like Kelly Morgan, to boot!

Why wasn’t that ever the #1 broadcast in Atlanta???

]]> By: Jennifer http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-2718 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:21:37 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-2718 Thank you so much for that story! I have very fond memories of Bruce Erion coming to my school when I was a kid.

]]> By: LBJ http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-2714 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:31:15 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-2714 Sharing choppers too? Jeez, pretty soon everyone be sharing Monica.

]]> By: Prophet Ezra http://liveapartmentfire.com/2009/07/07/bye-bye-skycam/#comment-2711 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:48:31 +0000 http://liveapartmentfire.com/?p=2984#comment-2711 The Pilots name in SLC was Jim Dirker.

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