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Al Primo Biography
Al Primo(Albert Thomas Primo) is a television news executive who was credited with creating the Eyewitness News format. More than a hundred markets have taken the Eyewitness News name to label their own featured local newscasts and others are using Primo’s concept under different names for their own formats.
Al Primo“Eyewitness News was the first newscast to put reporters on the set,” which Primo states in his biographical book, Eyewitness Newsman. The New York Daily News described Primo as the man “who almost single-handedly changed the face of broadcast journalism.”
Station newscasts were only 15 minutes long and he supervised the transition to thirty-minute programs. As part of the expansion, Marie Torre, of the New York Herald Tribune was hired. Primo trained her and she became one of the first women in broadcasting to write, report, and anchor a newscast.
Al Primo Age
Albert Thomas Primo is a television news executive who was credited with creating the Eyewitness News format. He was born on July 3. 1935 in Pittsburgh, PA. Al Primo is 84 years old as of 2018.
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Italian-American, Al Primo, is a pioneer in television news, he lives in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Primo is largely responsible for the format you see every night on your local news.
News Anchors, a weather person and sports and then interaction with reporters in the field and their chats with the folks at the news desk. Albert Primo was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He attended North Catholic Boys School and Perry High School, graduating in 1953, the University of Pittsburgh and graduated in 1958. His’s parents, brothers and sisters details are under review and will be updated soon.
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Al Primo developed the world’s first teenage newcast, TEEN KIDS NEWS, which is carried on 215 TV stations, covering 91% of the USA. It is also seen in 1,000 locations in 177 countries via American Forces Networks.
The educational version of the program is seen in 10,000 schools every week. His’s wife details are under review and will be updated soon.
Al Primo Net Worth
In 1968, Al Primo left Philly to become Director of News and Public Affairs for WABC-TV, Channel 7, the ABC O&O station in New York City.
There, he instituted the Eyewitness News concept. Both stations still call their newscasts. His estimated net worth as of 2019 is under review and will soon be updated.
Al Primo Career
He began in the business in 1953 as a mail boy at WDTV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, moving up the ranks as the station switched dial positions “from channel 3 to channel 2”, owners (from the DuMont Television Network to Westinghouse Broadcasting) and call letters (to KDKA-TV), working as news writer, cameraman, reporter, and anchorman. In February 1963, Primo was named assistant news director of KDKA-TV.]
Primo moved from KDKA-TV to KYW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio to become the news director there in 1964. While in Cleveland, Primo hired Tom Snyder when the previous anchor, Jim Axel, left.[7] When Westinghouse switched their Cleveland station for NBC’s WRCV in Philadelphia in 1965, Primo moved to Philadelphia.
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Primo was made vice president in charge of news for ABC’s owned and operated stations in May 1972.
In February 1973, ABC launched a half-hour newsmagazine, The Reasoner Report, featuring veteran newsman Harry Reasoner as an anchor. When executive producer Ernest Leiser left The Reasoner Report to become executive producer of ABC Evening News “which Reasoner also anchored”, Primo was brought in to replace him.
The Reasoner Report was canceled in May 1975, and Primo left the network the following year to become a consultant.
In 1999, Primo worked with Jonathan Braun to launch foreigntv.com, a web site which featured streaming broadcasts from international news, hiring Peter Arnett as an international correspondent. The following year, foreigntv.com, Inc. became Medium4.com, launching three additional web sites: StreamingUSA.com, NicheTV.com, and Medium4Music.com.
In 2002, Primo launched Teen Kids News as a project to give young people an opportunity to develop an interest in the news industry by delivering news and information to their peers.
The program is starting its 15th year, seen on 220 TV stations covering 95% of USA, 1000 locations in 175 countries via American Forces Network and sent by PBS satellite and streamed on the Internet to 12,600 schools each week.
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