The mountains of Copper Canyon, Murrieta, California, United StatesĪ few of the VIP’S and Celebrities I worked with Gene Siskel in Chicago covering. Since then I have done covered over 15,000 news stories and have successfully broadcasted over 5,000 LIVE shots.
Jack Smith at CBSNEWS hired me the next day. CBS was first to broadcast the video of the crash site. My footage of a jet taking off and then tilting the camera down to the smoking landing gear of the crashed jet was sent around the world as soon as the first LIVE truck arrived from Channel 2. I was working as an independent/freelance cameraman at the time. My entrance into Broadcast Television was being the first news cameraman on site at the DC-10 crash at O'hare airport in 1979. He also won Emmy's for his editing skill with 2" Quad videotape. My father could fix as well as operate any and all TV equipment at the TV station. Bill was a former Naval Photographer and film cameraman who worked with my father at WBBM.
#CAMERAMAN JOHN HOW TO#
William (Bill) Burk taught me how to shoot news. He taught me the technical end of the business. He was the EIC (Engineer in Charge) and Minicam supervisor there. He worked as minicam supervisor at WBBM until 1979 and later transfered to KNXT CBS which later became KCBS in LA. He also made many additions to the minicams that are found today on almost every video camera used. He staffed it with over 10 news crews with the new HL-35 Ikegami minicams and Sony BVU 100 VTR's and the rest is history. My father then created the first minicam shop. A film was made of the process by Bill Burk, the film was sent to the President of CBS in New York, he witnessed the future of news and LIVE Television.LIVE news coverage was born and all the film cameras were retired and shelved.
#CAMERAMAN JOHN PORTABLE#
There was no LIVE News Coverage with portable minicams and news trucks in Chicago until my father and Bill Kurtis accomplished the first LIVE shot successfully.īill interviewed a gas station owner on fuel prices from the anchor desk for the 10pm news.
"MINICAM."Īll news prior to Minicam was shot on film. Minicam." He was first to call his department, the camera and the van. He was honored by the news crews at CBS in Chicago with the title "Mr. Meyer.The man in the photo below adjusting the microwave dish on top of the minicam truck.That's my father who pioneered ENG Technology and built the first news microwave LIVE truck in Chicago.
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