Television Firsts

Television Firsts

  • First live driver heart rate data
    – Indy 500 (ABC Wide World of Sports)
  • First medical field monitoring during sports events
    – Hawaiian Triathlon (ABC Wide World of Sports)
    – Nice Triathlons (CBS Sports, Emmy Winner)
  • First live portable satellite dish broadcasts
    – Somalia, 1992
  • First video phone
    – Argentina, 2001
  • First correspondent to shoot/edit field pieces
  • First mobile field editing
    – Somalia, 2001
  • First solo mobile field pieces
    – Yemen, 2002
  • First video phone live shots
    – U.S. Fifth Fleet, 2002
  • First mobile HD field editing
    – Botswana, 2005
  • First live war
    – Iraq, 2003
  • First embedded reporter
    – Central Baghdad, April 7, 2003
  • First live, translated interviews
    – Arabic to English translations

 

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