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NBC5: the pre-HD years

NBC5's stealth conversion to high-definition newscasts last Friday hasn't exactly been seamless. Audio and visual screwups remain abundant. But lest we forget, it didn't all start with HD. Here's a classic gaffe from weatherman James Aydelott, who can be heard derisively saying "old goat" during a piece on a feisty senior. Next his mike went all but dead. The embarrassed weekend anchor in the picture is Todd D. Wallace, who recently left NBC5 for a higher-visibility job at the ABC station in Indianapolis.
Ed Bark