(In Part 1, published in the August issue, James O'Neal traced the origins of ENG. In Part 2, he examines the shift from traditional film to electronic methodologies in capturing news events)
Even in television's infancy, broadcasters realized that merely reporting news events from a studio setting provided little in the way of engagement with their viewing audiences. Almost from the time that radio moved out of the starting gates, man-on-the-scene reporting enabled by access to a well-established network of telephone circuits became a standard ingredient of newscasts.
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