Beginning in the 1960s, he put reporters on the streets and bantering anchors in the studio, creating a format still familiar to TV viewers today.
. The newscast may have been called “Eyewitness News,” Waters wrote, but “to at least this eyewitness the show might better be called ‘Wiseguy News.' ”
“It seems so natural now, but it did take a visionary like Primo to actually codify it, first in Philadelphia and then in New York,” said Ron Simon, a senior curator at the Paley Center for Media in New York. Mr. Primo was also the creator and co-executive producer of Teen Kids News, a syndicated news program for young people that debuted in 2003.
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