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From: "Big Daddy"
Diet 9 News Release
Diet 9 News, the one-calorie newscast, has announced the Police Chase Channel....
Due to the four police pursuits we have watched in Los Angeles this past
week, three in the last 24 hours (one semi, two five tons and a pickup
truck/minivan combo), Diet 9 News will devote all of its resources to
covering police chases, as it happens.
Diet 9 Team Coverage means that we will pull off of beach house damage
stories, live remotes from the Federal Roybal building, or the latest
Ginbsberg News Conference. We will cover the chase, "From Dispatch to
Impound, to all of Southern California...."
Diet 9 viewers will be allowed priority service to call LAPD Dispatch,
claiming they saw the suspect with a gun, to give officers advice (shoot the
tires out) in which dispatchers will dutifully relay information to
overhead air units.
Diet 9 anchors, such as P Harvey, will proclaim intimate knowledge of police
chase procedures, and will correctly, misidentify all agency logos and
frustrate all scanner enthusiasts (who can tell an agency from the numbers
on top a police vehicle, as well as the number of antennas)
The Diet 9 Newschat will also allow viewers to send emails directly to
pursuing officers MDT's, and created live chat sessions with incident
supervisors. Diet 9 anchors are also pursuing a Live Vote section, to
answer real-time if officers should employ spike-strips, fishtailing or
blocking traffic manuevers, active vs. passive pursuits, and allow team
coverage participants to rate the chase on technical and artistic merit,
compared to others covered that week.
Diet 9 News is an equal opportunity, team-coverage, employer. You don't
need any knowledge, just a good head shot.
The closed captioning of this news release was sponsored by The New Club,
recommended by law enforcement the world over....
karldahlquist@vistagroupusa.com
The LA Police Chase Channel would be a great idea for many reasons...
-- You could view a local TV newscast (if you really wanted to) without
the whole newscast being pre-empted.
-- You might find some in-depth coverage, like answers to the questions
which are never answered such as: What happens to car-chase perps in
the courts? Last I heard the cross-town carjacker had $100,000 (IMHO
low) bail.
Here are some ideas on what to have on this new channel:
---A play-by-play and colorman during the actual chase.
---Instead of being treated to just a bird's eye view from a helicopter, co-op
with CHP to mount "chase cams" with live feed on cruisers to see the pursuit
from a driver's perspective.
---A corollary to the first suggestion: the telestrator.
---Have a panel discussion of cops and ex-pursuit perps to review the week's
past police chases and say what they would/wouldn't have done.
---Make money by selling prime footage to other stations, so advertising
wouldn't be necessary.
---Make it a cable station available nationwide, so we could see what people do
in other parts of the country.
SoCalTIP, Southern California's Comprehensive Transportation Information Page:
http://socaltip.lerctr.org
What a terrific way to increase crime in your area! Now all the losers
will go out a hi-jack a car, so they might be the next "STAR" of the
police chase channel.
Sheesh!
(ken)
Subject: Police Chase Channel - New LA Superstation - Diet 9 News
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:30:37 -0800
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:50:25 -0800
From: "Michael B. Stone"
From: hercwad@aol.com (Herc Wad)
Date: 13 Feb 1998 17:13:05 GMT
From: "Ken M."
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:01:05 -0500
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