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This week, the Society of Professional Journalists is honoring Hubbard Broadcasting and KSTP-TV in Minneapolis with its Historic Site in Journalism award.
The station and the Hubbard family have earned their places in the history of TV journalism by being responsible for several innovations, including being the first to broadcast regularly scheduled local news on television, being the first to buy an RCA TV camera, even before having a TV station, and pioneering the use of Ku-band satellite uplink trucks to gather news.
In this, the first of a two-part conversation, Stanley S. Hubbard, chairman and CEO of Hubbard Broadcasting and son of company founder Stanley E. Hubbard, discusses many of the important firsts for the broadcaster.
Hubbard also explains how Ku-band satellite newsgathering came to be and even reveals the meaning of the mysterious “GT/AC” on the side of the first SNG truck.
A special note to listeners: Part II of the conversation with Stanley Hubbard is available on the Broadcast Engineering podcast page.
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