Al Primo

Albert Thomas Primo (July 3, 1935 – September 29, 2022) was an American 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.[1] "Eyewitness News was the first newscast to put [news] reporters on the set", Primo states in his autobiographical book, Eyewitness Newsman.[1] The New York Daily News described Primo as the man "who almost single-handedly changed the face of broadcast journalism."[2] Station newscasts were only 15 minutes long and he supervised the transition to thirty minute programs.[3]

  1. ^ a b Primo, Albert T. (2008). Eyewitness Newsman. Old Greenwich, CT: Albert T. Primo. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4363-2558-5.
  2. ^ "Al Primo Bio". Premiere Speakers Bureau. Archived from the original on September 17, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
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