Charlie Sheen was in town. It got Big Deal treatment from WXIA and competing Atlanta TV stations. Prior to his stage show at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, Jaye Watson and photog David Brooks found Sheen at Georgia Tech’s ballpark, where Sheen was taking BP with Tech’s baseball players. It turned out to be the scoop of [...]
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5 Oct
Goofus and Gallant
Marc Pickard retired from WXIA in September. It was bittersweet for all of us. Pickard is a gifted storyteller, and a guy who probably never had an undignified moment in his entire career. Even when he covered breaking news, Pickard was at his best. His retirement process paralleled my own departure from WAGA in 2007, [...]
28 Apr
Hey- that’s not my name…
There were a few surprises during our top-secret day-long visit to WXIA Monday. Two of them stood out. The first was the climate. It was odd hearing day-laboring reporters and photographers speak of their mutual respect with management, a quality sadly lacking in much of my previous Atlanta TV experience. It was as if I’d [...]
23 Sep
Addition by subtraction
On Friday, there was a shooting and kidnapping in SE Atlanta. Two stations managed to get cameras to the scene, WGCL and WXIA. Their approaches to the story were completely different, and quite instructive. Both stations appeared to get the facts right. One of them produced a broilerplate, garden variety package. The other produced a [...]
4 Apr
Cry for me pt 2
In a previous post about interviews done with a woman who was an on-camera wreck over the vehicle accident deaths of her loved ones, we asked: And this benefits the audience… how? WXIA’s Jaye Watson posts some compelling answers on her blog: “Here’s a theory I have about why people don’t like to see the [...]
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