RE-RUNS!

   SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH., 2018
                     RE-RUNS!

    Holiday season. Many of your regular
weekly TV shows are on vacation. Many
have been replaced by re-runs of older
episodes or Christmas shows that reappear
each and every December.
     Most of my broadcasting work over
the years involved news. Once it was on
the air you never saw it again.
      I've been on the air somewhere since
1959 and have covered some of the biggest
stories in our area.
      But it seems it's a re-run that's drawing
a lot of attention!
       On Friday I took my grandson into a
popular hardware store to watch the electric
train displays speeding around the tracks.
The owner actually interrupted two
customers who were checking out to show
them, and me, a picture he took on his
cellphone the night before.
        It was a photo of his television
screen. And I was on it!
        He had been watching an episode of
Forensic Files involving the murder of
19-year-old Lori Auker in Northumberland
County in 1989. Her husband Robert was
eventually convicted as the killer.
          Forensic Files documented the story
in a segment titled "Cats, Flies, and Snapshots"
and, since I covered the case, I was asked to
appear in their production. Several of my
comments were used towards the very end
of the episode so I am "on camera" for
about two minutes.
            That episode was filmed in 2001!
             On Friday night a Facebook friend
sent me a message telling me he had just
seen me on Forensic Files!
              I've received similar notes from
friends in the area and as far away as
California and Chicago. And that's over
several years.
               When I first heard the old program
was being re-run I used to notify friends who
might never have seen it. Then I realized the
series was being run on several networks, some
independent stations, and even on YouTube!
                 Every now and then it comes back,
somewhere! Who knows? Perhaps years from
now some of my great, great grandkids will
get to see me on their TV's (or whatever
people will be watching then!).
                  I wish I could say I got residuals
but I never got paid in the first place! Hope
you get to see it sometime and that all your
NEWS is good.