{"id":24890,"date":"2020-03-25T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=24890"},"modified":"2020-03-25T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:00:15","slug":"remote-control-cbs-2-tests-emergency-newscast-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/03\/25\/remote-control-cbs-2-tests-emergency-newscast-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote control: CBS 2 tests emergency newscast from the street"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Brad Edwards (March 24, 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n

While all news media are practicing social distancing and adapting to working outside the office, WBBM-Channel 2<\/a> went a step further Tuesday. The CBS-owned station originated its entire 5 p.m. newscast away from its Loop newsroom, studio and control room.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing this as a test in [the] event we would not have access to our building due to COVID-19 or some other problem,\u201d tweeted<\/a> John Dodge, digital director and executive producer at CBS 2.<\/p>\n

Just outside the station\u2019s office and studio complex at Dearborn and Washington, news anchor Brad Edwards stood alone with a note pad on a music stand, as four CBS 2 news trucks parked nearby functioned as a makeshift production center, control room and satellite uplink.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are outside today as a practice \u2014 a dry run if you will,\u201d Edwards told viewers at the top of the al fresco newscast. \u201cIf COVID-19 necessitates that we evacuate the premise and take the show on the road, that\u2019s what we\u2019re practicing today. The most important thing is that we continue to serve as a conduit for critical information to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the half-hour local newscast at 5 p.m. was abbreviated by CBS News coverage of a White House briefing, the experiment came off without a hitch. Dodge credited news operations manager Rick Kramer and other \u201camazing people [who] worked very long hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporter Megan Hickey documented the setup for the real-life drill in a Facebook Live<\/a> post. (Here is the link.<\/a>) \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit louder and little bit more chaotic than the anchors and reporters in the studio are used to,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Earlier Edwards tweeted: <\/a>\u201cI work with exceptional people. @CBSChicago took a forever fossilized bricks and mortar newsroom and made it virtual, virtually overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CBS 2 Chicago (Photo: Dana Kozlov\/Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

Tuesday's comment of the day:<\/a> Scott Knitter:<\/strong> Thanks for the update on CBSN Chicago. I often fire up the CBSN channel on Roku to get a news update and wonder why Chicago isn't among the cities that have a local version.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While all news media are practicing social distancing and adapting to working outside the office, WBBM-Channel 2 went a step further Tuesday. The CBS-owned station originated its entire 5 p.m. newscast away from its Loop newsroom, studio and control room. \u201cWe are doing this as a test in [the] event we would not have access... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24896,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24890\/revisions\/24896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}