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Studio B-sharp?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Live from Studio B, it’s … a little water music?
Fox News may have snagged a prime location high atop the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce building from which to broadcast three of its programs Thursday: A verdant view of Centennial Olympic Park down below. Great views of the Atlanta cityscape up above (especially if you averted your eyes from that giant billboard on Techwood featuring rival CNN anchor Anderson Cooper’s distinctive snow-capped head). And what sounded like a live orchestra playing along at times.
It wasn’t. It was just the usual Fountain of Rings fanfare that occasionally wafted up from the park during the 3 p.m. live broadcast of “Studio B with Shepard Smith.” The only-in-Atlanta music didn’t interfere with the show; if anything, it lightened the mood a tad during an hour in which Smith continually updated viewers on reported police shootings in two different cities and sat down with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue for a rather sobering discussion about how much it could cost to provide paper trails for electronic voting machines.
There was some confusion about whether the public could watch Smith do his thing; initial information was that they would be able to, but the rotunda area atop the Chamber building wasn’t set up for spectators. Nonetheless, Fox made arrangements for fans who did show up to come up and watch “Studio B.” That was music to the ears of Becky James, a Tate, Ga., resident, who’d been waiting since noon with her daughter, Melissa Toel.
“We are BIG Fox News fans,” said James, who watched the broadcast and got to meet Smith afterwards. “I like the whole network, because they’re so straightforward. And I’m conservative and so are they.”
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By brabus
September 29, 2006 9:01 AM | Link to this
So which are they: conservative or straighforward? Make up your mind.