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Before they were stars: Brian Cooley's first CNET spot

2015-07-20
one of the most hit on beauty sites is the KPIX TV weather camera high atop the Fairmount hotel in San Francisco this is the king of the Internet cameras this is a Philips LD k9t it's a top quality studio camera while we control it in a interesting way as a secret number you dial up and then with the touch-tone keypad on a phone you can move it around like points on a compass and if you press a certain button it'll make the windshield wiper work this is the microwave dish we take the shot off of the Philips camera then we shoot it down across San Francisco there's a gray building down there by the water front that's KPIX headquarters about a mile and a half away we pick it up there put it into our in-house cable system bring it into our spark station on the Sun tuner take a snapshot make it a jiff put it up on the web a lot of favorite spots you can see from the Fairmont the Golden Gate Bridge we get a tremendous number of requests for that if the cameras not pointed at the Golden Gate we hear about it
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