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Article: Local stations denounce NFL's camera ban
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 5, 2006
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The news was slow in filtering out of the NFL owners meetings last
month in Orlando, Fla., but as it makes the rounds of TV newsrooms
around the country, it's registering with the force of a tsunami.
Starting this season, no local stations will be allowed to have their
cameras on the field. The ban is in effect before, during and after
games, and it has left sports directors and cameramen amazed and
angry.
In Pittsburgh, John Steigerwald of KDKA-TV told the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette: "If they don't see the difference between using network
video and what we shoot from the sidelines, they're idiots. That's an
insult to the intelligence of anyone who knows anything about
television."
"It ...