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Thanks for your interest in the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS anchor and reporter teams. Station talent is available to emcee events and speak to civic groups & school classes.
Our meteorologists' weather presentations are geared towards middle and high school students studying a weather unit. Their emphasis is on the science of weather and forecasting information. This material is not appropriate for preschoolers, kindergartners or children under third grade.
There is no fee for this service. Requests for talent should be submitted 8-10 weeks in advance. All requests should specify a date, time, the name of talent, and a brief description of the event. Click here for a list of the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS anchors & reporters.
Please note that this document is only a request. A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS staff person will contact you regarding availability and confirmation. While we cannot guarantee availability, we will make every effort to honor this request.
If you have an event or story that you wish to receive news coverage, please email Tips@kstp.com or call 612-5TV-NEWS. Thank you!
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| Q. How do I contact your network affiliate, ABC? |
A. To reach ABC, call ABC Audience Information:
(818) 460-7477
Address: 500 South Buena Vista Street,
Burbank, CA 91521-4551 |
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A. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS is located “where the Twin Cities meet” on the city boundary of Minneapolis and Saint Paul at 3415 University Avenue
Directions:
- From 94 East or West, exit north on Highway 280 at University Avenue.
- At second stop light, turn left onto University.
- 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS is approximately one-quarter mile ahead on the right (at the corner of Berry Street and University).
- Look up to see our landmark: the original KSTP television tower!
Visitor parking is available at the front door. Additional parking on University and adjacent streets, plus overflow employee parking behind our building at Berry Street and Territorial Road (enter through automatic sliding glass doors marked overhead “employee/office entrance” and check in with receptionist. |
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Q. Do you offer station tours?
A. Yes, we do. Please fill out the tour request form on our Community page: http://kstp.com/article/24/. |
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A.To the surprise of many,5 EYEWITNESS NEWS original news film is the only remaining local television news history in the region! This represents over fifty years of news coverage (3,000,000 feet of film!) captured by television cameras – a precious and rare collection! To best preserve this fragile history, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS donated its original news film (circa 1948 - 1980) to the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul (home of the Minnesota Historical Society). The collection is in the process of being cleaned, spliced, and indexed so that in the years to come the public will be able to access the archive.
For a progress report on the project, please contact the Minnesota History Center’s Curator of Sound Visual Collections at 651-296-6126. Their web site is www.mnhs.org |
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| Q. Can I purchase a VHS or DVD copy of a story that aired recently on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS? |
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A. We receive hundreds of requests from viewers for news video. To accommodate the demand, effective on March 8, 2007, a local video duplication company named NorthStar Media Services, LLC has our permission (with restrictions) to dub and sell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS local news segments for home-viewing purposes.
To request a copy of a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS story, please contact:
NorthStar Media Services
Phone: 952-472-8194
Email: northstar@nsmediaservice.com
Website: www.nsmediaservice.com
For a short clip, you can expect the cost for either a VHS or DVD copy to start at $45 (plus tax and shipping). Obviously you'll pay more for extended segments or multiple stories.
When you contact NorthStar Media, please provide them with as much information as possible about the segment you are seeking. They will want to know the channel or station, the date and time of the newscast, and a brief description of the story content.
NorthStar Media archives our news broadcasts. Currently, the archive goes back to 1/1/08. If you have an interest, they may also be able to provide clips from some of the other local broadcast stations.
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A. Our agreement with NorthStar Media authorizes them only to make recordings of 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS-produced and aired stories. We do not have the right to authorize them to make copies of news segments produced by ABC or third-party producers (even if the stories aired on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS). Further, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS does not sell "raw video" (video that we shot but that we did not air).
KSTP-TV, LLC stories are copyrighted and we reserve all rights. You may use a KSTP-TV recording provided to you by NorthStar only for private home viewing. It may not be duplicated, rebroadcast, publicly displayed.
If NorthStar Media doesn’t have the video you’re looking for, the following national news monitoring companies may also be able to provide you with a copy of a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS segment. In some instances, their archives may include an older story that NorthStar Media may not have. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS does not have a referral agreement with these companies and their VHS / DVD dub rates may be higher:
VMS: http://www.vmsinfo.com/
Bacon’s | Multivision: http://multivision.bacons.com/ Local phone # (763) 529-9048
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Thanks for your interest in visiting the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS studios. Studio tours are on hold until Fall 2009.
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