Radio-TV mirror (Jan-June 1952)

JOHN DALY 'IVIr. Daly performs the difficult task of !■" being dignified without being pompous. His voice is thoroughly agreeable, his speech is flawless, and what he has to say ... is refreshingly literate and spontaneous." With these words, Deems Taylor presented to John Daly one of the Sylvania Television Awards of 1951. John Daly was in a small, select group, for these awards are presented very sparingly. Only nine individuals in the whole industry were selected by the Sylvania Committee. Behind John's urbane manner, lie many hours of hectic, shirt-sleeved work in the news room. If John is casual and spontaneous on the air it is because he is so thoroughly prepared on every aspect of the news. John knows the news business. Often described as a "distinguished commentator and foreign correspondent," he has worked a lifetime to earn the title. He knows not only the elements of the news, but he knows intimately the major world figures who make the news. In 1941 he completed five years of service as a White House correspondent — five of the most important years of our history. In '41 and '42 he was called back to New York to lend his immense knowledge of world affairs to interpreting the first years of the war. For the next six years, John was on roving assignment. London, Algiers, North Africa, Italy, the Middle East, Alaska and the Aleutians — wherever news was being made, John Daly was on the spot. He has covered every kind of story, from the Nuremburg Trials to the ill-starred Texas City explosions. There is probably no man before the TV cameras today who has spent so many years' preparing himself for the exacting job of completely covering the news for the home viewer. It's a rough schedule that John and his staff meet every day. At 11 A.M., John Dunn, ABC newsman, and Daly's righthand man, starts work on the show, checking all the news services for the general content of the day's news. At 11:45 he phones United Press, who, in a new combine with Fox-Movietone, supply the film for the Daly show. Dunn checks on their plans for specific coverage for the night's show, and checks it against his first list of major news items. He plans on-the-spot coverage by the UP-Fox cameras and orders background material from the millions of feet of film in their library. At 12:15 he starts work with the art staff who draw the maps, charts and graphs used to illustrate the stories in detail. At 1 P.M., John Daly arrives and holds a meeting of the entire news staff — a meeting that in an hour must arrange every element of the show, leaving time open for late news developments. By 2:30, the staff is ready to meet with the film editor. For another hour, Daly and his entire staff hold stop watches as they view background film that has arrived early — for TV news must be timed to the split-second. From 3:30 until air time, Daly and Dunn write the show, discarding one story or another as later film, which takes precious time to view and edit, arrives by messenger. Because TV news is visual, the viewer gets more news in fifteen minutes than on radio. John schedules from seven to eleven film spots a day, as against five or six "pick-ups" used on radio. Acme news photos provide the stills on the last minute stories — and these stories have been used when the pictures arrived as late as five minutes before air time. Daly, the old newsman, insists upon full coverage and actually uses stories that come in — while he is reporting "on camera" — as late as 7:14 — or one minute before he goes off the air! John Daly believes that editing and rec _Yting for TV demands a completely different technique from that required by any other medium. He says, "Not only does history march across the face of your tube, but also personalities and material substance move. In place of the 'whowhat-when-where' formula of newspaper or radio reporting, TV news must deal with places and persons, constantly drawing upon a background of visual information to help the viewer see them in terms of the night's news." How does he like the arduous hours and stop-watch schedule of TV reporting? Daly loves it, and feels it is doing a better and better job. "It cannot, however," he says, "come to full stature until basic technical problems are solved." He means that he wants on-the-spot coverage of every event, either put on the air as it happens or recorded for later use. To achieve this, we'll need a lot more facilities than we have now, but with perfectionists like John Daly on the job, we may get that kind of news sooner than we've dared dream. / ' Jv^cK' Cant Melt! Can'f Smear! Marie McDonald lovely motion picture star • • • Beautiful Heavenly Lips Romance-hued liquid colors that take to your lips with the idea of staying. 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