 Back in my college days my friend Tony Guiden and I sat around dreaming of the day when we would be out of school and working full time as some sort of journalist or communications professional. I didn't know where I would end up, but I had a pretty good idea that Tony would be wildly successful. Why? Tony worked hard and was very intelligent. Did I say that he also had that TV personality handsome look, and a great radio voice!  I vividly recall on one of our silly laughing days that we both agreed that we would go ahead and give each other our autographs so that when we became famous we would own a real piece history. Then we burst out laughing!
As fate would have it, I got a job at KATV - Channel Seven in Little Rcok, an ABC television network affiliate, and Tony got a job in radio news. I didn't see him much after we graduated but I did hear him on the radio when it was news time! What an amazing voice. Tony got hired at KATV… In the Spring of '80, Assignment Editor, Bob Steel, sent the only two Harding graduates on the staff, me and Tony Guiden, to the Harding campus to cover a story on the construction update for the Benson Auditorium. We interviewed then President Cliff Ganus for the 6:00 o'clock news that aired that same day. On our way to and from Searcy Tony and I were almost giddy about two buddies from college now working together in our first real big-boy jobs as a news reporter and photographer. Take another look at that camera on my shoulder in the photo above. It was a CP-16. When I started at KATV in the late 70's all we used was 16mm motion picture film, as it was known then Newsreel film. After shooting the news reel t had to be developed in photographic chemicals, physically cut and spliced together, and very often had to have a separate sound track produced and laid down beside it in order for it to make a complete story. When I moved on just five years later all the news videographers used was 3/4" video cassette tape. In the early 90's my friends and former KATV colleagues, Larry Foley, and Tim Hamilton came to Chicago to spend a day or two visiting me so we could catch some baseball games and local sites. While there, we visited the Broadcast Museum of Communication. Stop! There it was. On display. Under glass. As a relic of history, a CP-16! Made me feel old. I loved that old news camera. I wish I had a photo of that display.
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