The always must-read insider publication Broadcasting & Cable features an interview with FNC's Sharri Berg, senior VP for news operations, who provides an update on FNC's never-tiring effort to stay ahead of the competition. Sharri also traced some of the astounding changes in the biz: "Fifteen years ago, to get pictures out of Baghdad, it required sending in a two-ton flyaway unit. Then five years ago, for overseas war coverage, it was a 15-pound video kit. Last week, we're talking about a crew getting to a location and powering up and pointing the camera while immediately beginning a stream over a PDA." A breathtaking amount of change, that's for sure--but Sharri and FNC are determined to set the tech-standard for the cable game.
And as if to prove that techno-point, the same issue of B&C features an update on FNC's "Treo-blazing" journalism during the recent NYC Cory Lidle airplane-crash tragedy.
