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downtown?” The stories he remembers covering: “The capture and trial of Ted Bundy. [News director] Bob Jordan wanted us to be all over that. It was a national story based in Florida. That story took off for several reasons. Florida had cameras in the courts. This shocking murder in Tallahassee became this monster national story.” On the connections he made: “Bob Jordan promised the owners of Channel9 he would figure out how to make it No.1. His mantra was he was going to win with quality. He hired Bob Opsahl. He did what he said he was going to do. He was just a tremendous influence on my life.” Where did you hang out? “Downtown was active back then. The hot place was Rosie O’Grady’s. They had nickel beer. The people Bob was hiring were in their 20s. Mid-20s is a great time to have nickel beer.” Trace Gallagher Current job: An anchor and correspondent based in Los Angeles for Fox News Channel. Years in Orlando: 1993 to 1996 at Chan- nel6 (then WCPX), where he took Shepard Smith’s job. What he remembers about this TV market: “My sister still lives in Orlando. We still love it here. I can remember covering how interesting Orlando was and the growth issues in the ’90s.” The stories he remembers covering: “We covered the ValuJet crash in Miami. We were down there for weeks. We covered alot of missing kids in Orlando in those years. Orlando had a lot of that in the early to mid-’90s.” TV Continuedfrom PageB1 FOX NEWS CHANNEL What he learned here that helps in his career: “We had some great news directors. WCPX was kind of a perennial third-place station. They tried a lot of experimental stuff. News directors were always trying to change things. They had live trucks everywhere. Everything was live and breaking news. If you look at the landscape — CNN, Fox News — they do a lot more of that style of television. Orlando was the key move of my career.” On the connections he made: “Shepard Smith was a huge influence. I got here in August 1993. The overlap was four months. The first time I turned on the TV, he was doing a hurricane prep shot from a Home Depot. I had no idea I was taking that guy’s job.”
Article from 02 Jan 2011The Orlando Sentinel(Orlando, FL)
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