Broadcast Journalism Majors - How to write a RUNDOWN & SCRIPTS for TV News?

Hey Broadcast Journalism Students,
Here is how to write a proper RUNDOWN & SCRIPTS. I worked at NBC News for 3 years of my life as an Associate Producer, while I was in college. This is the correct way to write for broadcast news. Please don't listen to your professors they are probably professors who were former writers for the local news paper. All my teachers were. In a news paper they try to get more words. But for TV, less words but more powerful because you have the tone behind it. I felt like when I went through University for broadcast journalism and no one knew what they were talking about. I was trained for by the actual producers at the NBC5/KXAS Dallas/Forth Worth an O&O Station in a Top 7 Market. But hey... thanks for that Scholarship ;)

1 OCTOBER 25, 2003
2 CRYSTAL WELCOME FULL 0:05
3 CRYSTAL IRAQ REBUILD MEDIUM 0:30
4 CRYSTAL WAL-MART MEDIUM 0:20
5 CRYSTAL COP SHOOTING MEDIUM 0:20
6 CRYSTAL FMU MEDIUM 0:20
7 CRYSTAL WEATHER FULL/SCREEN 0:30
8 CRYSTAL MAVERICKS PKG 1:30
9 CRYSTAL KICKER MEDIUM 0:15
10 CRYSTAL CLOSE FULL 0:05

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FMU TV ANCHOR
¶ WELCOME...I'M CRYSTAL LINH WITH THIS F-M-U TV NEWS UPDATE.

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*CG BILLIONS TO REBUILD
IRAQ
¶ LEADING OUR NEWS TODAY FROM AROUND THE WORLD...
U-S AND IRAQI OFFICIALS PLEAD FOR BILLIONS TO REBUILD IRAQ.
THE DONORS CONFERENCE TODAY WARNS THAT THEY MIGHT NOT GET ALL THEY NEED.
DESPITE THE APPROVAL LAST WEEK OF A U-N RESOLUTION SETTING OUT IRAQ'S FUTURE COURSE WITH SECURITY REMAINING THE PRIMARY ISSUE.
ALSO ON THE AGENDA IS SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL WHO IS SEEKING TO LOWER EXPECTATIONS THAT WASHINGTON WILL PROVIDE $35 BILLION IN AID THROUGH 2007.
FRANCE AND GERMANY, HAVE BOTH CITED CONCERNS ABOUT THE RESTORATION OF IRAQ'S BUT REFUSE TO PLEDGE ANY NEW MONEY.

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*CG ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
¶ THE WORLD'S LARGEST RETAIL IS MISSING SOME CLEANING WORKERS THIS MORNING.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARREST MORE THAN 300 ILLEGAL WORKERS AT 61 WAL-MART STORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY INCLUDING IN TEXAS.
A WAL-MART COMPANY SPOKESWOMEN MONA WILLIAMS SAID "THEY ARRESTED A NUMBER OF THE FLOOR CLEANING CREWS WHO ARE EMPLOYED BY OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS."
THE INVESTIGATION ALSO TARGETED CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS USED BY WAL-MART.

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*CG DOUBLE COP SHOOTING
DALLAS
¶ POLICE ARREST 18-YEAR-OLD AND CHARGES HIM WITH TWO COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED CAPITAL MURDER WEDNEDAY.
OFFICIALS SAY MANUEL GONZALES SHOT TWO DALLAS POLICE OFFICERS TUESDAY NIGHT WHILE THEY WERE INVESTIGATING A DRUG CALL ON WEBB CHAPEL ROAD.
AS THE OFFICERS TRIED TO ENTER THE APARTMENT THEY WERE BOTH HIT BY A SINGLE SHOTGUN BLAST.
BOTH OFFICERS ARE IN FAIR CONDITION AT PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPTIAL.

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DALLAS
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*CG HIGH
LOW
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¶ STIFF DISCIPLINE AFTER SCHOOLBOYS VIAGRA PRANK.
SIX BRITISH SCHOOLBOYS WERE RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL ATER TAKING THE ERECTION-ENHANCING DRUG VIAGRA AT LUNCHTIME FOR A DARE TODAY.
FOREST SCHOOL IN ENGLAND SAID PARAMEDICS WERE CALLED AFER A FELLOW STUDENT TOLD TEACHERS ABOUT THE 13-YEAR-OLDS PRANK.
THE BOYS WERE MONITORED UNITL THE EFFECTS WORE OFF.
THE SCHOOL HAS A STRICT NO DRUG POLICY.

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FMU TV NEWS
¶ THAT'S ALL THIS HOUR. THANKS FOR JOINING US...
FOR F-M-U TV, I'M CRYSTAL LINH.