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I can recall being called into the CEO's office one day, close the door he says. I'm thinking uh-oh nothing good can come after that statement. He proceeds to tell me that he put a CD into the floppy drive and could I please remove it. I was sworn to confidentiality, never happened.
I want to check the validity of your story, but unfortunately I can't find a CD, or a floppy drive.
"There’s the KOMO News footage, which some of us still have on a dusty VHS tape. There are a handful of print articles from tech magazines at the time. And one of us has the audio recording of the radio coverage." It would be cool if there were some kind of technology that would allow them to share those things, like with people who can't actually be there in person.
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It ought to be possible to find another clip of the same anchors in the 90s, which would settle the issue. I spent a few minutes on Youtube and found a lot of KOMO news clips from 1995 but none with those anchors. I still think it's authentic because it would be so hard to fake. If anyone really cared they could probably get someone at the TV station, which still exists ( https://komonews.com/ ), to confirm that the…
whatthesmack confirmed the man was Keith Eldridge It's unlikely that 'someone at the station' could confirm that clip was real, getting archive footage from that time would be difficult. I worked on various shows in the 00s, there's no way I'd remember any packages we broadcast, and there's no easy access to archives before 2008. We've been digitising decades of cut news packages in foreign bureaus for years, but I d…
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> I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm. Perhaps, however remember the Mandela Effect. I'd expect ong time KOMO viewers and staff to recognise the presenters, and I'm sure they were the right ones. I wouldn't trust their recollection of this story though, especially once they had seen the video - after all the camera never lies. Remember news anchors read dozens of these stories a day, to recall one specif…
I still remember the prank from the late 1980s when KING ran a story that the Space Needle fell over. KING ran retractions for days, and did their best to bury the footage. I saw it when KING ran it, and had a good laugh. It was an obvious prank (the video looked like a bad cut & paste job, and the reporters were local comedians from "Almost Live"), but too bad a handful of humorless people ruined it. I ran into Bill…
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But can you believe them on April 1st?
Well, you can't believe them even if it's not. People tend to remember things that never happened. Other than that, GP may have just been teasing. I mean what's the probability that you call them and they still have the same people there after 25 years? You call them and one of those rare guys (who's still there after 25 years) answers the phone. Or whoever answers the phone is willing to take the time to find someon…
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I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.
Does the reporter still have the copy?