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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Behind the scenes of Big 2 News KPRC Houston - 1978


Let Ron Stone and Big 2 News take us back to 1978 when microwave signals and videotape were new to TV news, and the tape deck and camera were separate units.

Stone highlights the latest in electronic news gathering at the time and how Channel 2 got the news on air every evening.

The KPRC 2 Houston mini-doc from decades ago, just posted by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI), features Cindy Martin, George Caldwell, Ray Miller, Larry Weidman, Doug Johnson, Phil Archer, Jack Cato, Jon Burkhart, and Steve Long





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