All four Milwaukee television stations broke into regular programing Thursday afternoon to provide live coverage of the press conference, attended by Gov. Walker, Mayor Barrett and County Executive Abele, announcing funding plans for the new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.
But one station – WITI-TV (Channel 6) – had to make do with the feed provided by another station, WKOW-TV in Madison. During much of WITI’s coverage the WKOW call letters appeared on screen.
WITI news director John LaPorte, who said the station broke the news of the press conference on its 9 p.m. newscast Wednesday and had two crews on the scene, said in an email that WITI had an audio issue with its feed “which appears to be due to a bad cable.”
WKOW was providing a feed of the news conference to CNN and since WITI is a CNN affiliate it “used that feed while we resolved the technical issue. We then went back to our feed.”
In case you were wondering. I was.
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