"Clearing a Path for Television News": The First Extended Newscast at Sacramento's KCRA. Issue 4 (1st January 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Clearing a Path for Television News": The First Extended Newscast at Sacramento's KCRA. Issue 4 (1st January 2017)
- Main Title:
- "Clearing a Path for Television News"
- Authors:
- Liseblad, Madeleine
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The advent of extended television news was a turning point for television, a medium originally devoted to entertainment. Starting in the 1970s, scholars associated extended news with the first half-hour network newscasts. However, later scholarship has shown extended news was driven by local television stations, not the networks. At least nine local stations introduced a forty-five minute evening newscast well before the network expansion. This article examines in depth the previously virtually ignored first known extended newscast in the nation¯KCRA's Channel 3 Reports¯ launched in Sacramento, California, on February 20, 1961, at 6 p.m. Channel 3 Reports provided viewers with a one-hour newscast, with forty-five minutes of locally produced content, along with fifteen minutes of delayed electronic feeds containing network news. KCRA's newscast began two and a half years before the network news expansion. Prominent local newscasts, including KNXT's The Big News in Los Angeles followed in KCRA's footsteps.
- Is Part Of:
- Journalism history. Volume 42:Issue 4(2017)
- Journal:
- Journalism history
- Issue:
- Volume 42:Issue 4(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 42, Issue 4 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0042-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 182
- Page End:
- 190
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01-01
- Subjects:
- 070.4
- Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1080/00947679.2017.12059155 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0094-7679
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- Legaldeposit
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