No Corporate Staff, No Excuses

“Even to this day, we have no corporate counsel, no vice president of personnel, no public relations department. When my boss said the building needed a paint job, I had them paint only the sides the public could see … not the sides facing the woods and the Hudson River. Today our stations have the latest equipment and facilities. But I remember one time at our original station when a film clip dropped through the projection room floor because it had not been properly threaded onto the take-up reel. It disappeared through a hole in the floor, and was finally retrieved from the basement so the show could go”

“He said he had figured out how I was able to pull off the hiring of Don Polec so deftly and he put it this way: “Taft, my parent company in Cincinnati, tells me, the manager, what I am going to do. The difference,” he said, “is you tell New York what you are going to do.” And that is pure Capcities.”