As an anchorperson, especially an outdoors anchorperson, making selections was very important. The locations you chose had to be interesting and unique, or there would be no way to evoke the audience’s interest and enthusiasm. One needed to know that enthusiasm was like a fire. Fuel had to be added from time to time, and ventilation needed to be sustained to ensure that oxygen was sufficient, or else the fire would easily go out.
The news-anchor industry was developing very fast; it could even be said to be a little too fast. It was no longer the era where one could just randomly broadcast a game or song and have tens of thousands of fans, like in the past when the business was on the rise. If an anchorperson didn’t have any special features, then he or she could only be obliterated by the crowd.
