{"id":7634,"date":"2015-05-11T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2015-05-11T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T11:11:53","slug":"look-up-in-sky-its-abc-7-drone-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/05\/11\/look-up-in-sky-its-abc-7-drone-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Look, up in sky! It\u2019s ABC 7 Drone Cam!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Paul Meincke and Colin Hinkle<\/p><\/div>\n

Viewers of WLS-Channel 7<\/a> enjoyed a bird\u2019s-eye view of the soon-to-open 606 Bloomingdale Trail<\/a>\u00a0last week when the ABC-owned station aired what it claimed was the first live transmission from a drone camera on a local newscast.<\/p>\n

Reporter Paul Meincke delivered the historic report <\/a>on last Thursday\u2019s 4 p.m. newscast with the aid of photographer Colin Hinkle, owner of Chicago-based Soaring Badger Productions,<\/a> the first company to be granted an FAA permit to conduct commercial drone flights here.<\/p>\n

Meincke\u2019s story featured spectacular HD video of the 2.7-mile trail converted from an abandoned railway to a park and fully paved pathway on the Northwest Side. \u201cHigh def pictures from a little battery-powered flying machine over the big city,\u201d he said.\u00a0Drones can hover much closer to the ground than helicopters and fly through much narrower spaces.<\/p>\n

ABC 7 touted the debut of the Drone Cam as the first of its kind during a regularly scheduled newscast. In 2007 the station became the first in Chicago to broadcast its entire news and local programming lineup in high definition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to be the first in this city to offer live drone shots during a newscast,\u201d Jennifer Graves, vice president and news director of ABC 7, said in a statement. \u201cOur commitment to cutting edge technology gave us the opportunity to offer our viewers news in the most compelling way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only about three weeks ago, ABC 7 investigative reporter Chuck Goudie posted photos <\/a>of a drone that had been snared in pigeon wire just outside his office window. \u201cNews spies?\u201d he drolly\u00a0tweeted. <\/a>\u201cSuspect timing just before May ratings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ABC 7 Drone Cam<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Viewers of WLS-Channel 7 enjoyed a bird\u2019s-eye view of the soon-to-open 606 Bloomingdale Trail\u00a0last week when the ABC-owned station aired what it claimed was the first live transmission from a drone camera on a local newscast. Reporter Paul Meincke delivered the historic report on last Thursday\u2019s 4 p.m. newscast with the aid of photographer Colin... 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\/7634"}],"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=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}