Live comments before social mediaSourced
Viewers emailed a TV newscast.
The anchor read them live on air.
In the 1990s, Indiana station WSJV introduced a 5 p.m. newscast that invited audience feedback by phone and email. Co-anchor Jim Parisi could read incoming messages from a computer on the set while the show was live.
Audience comments reached TV
long before today's feeds.
Summary / translation: Unbubly · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source and reuse details
WSJV · Wikimedia contributors
Adapted, summarized and translated from the source. Adapted text is also available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reviewed: 2026-10-01