Len Berman, former lead sports anchor at WNBC, was a speaker at Hofstra’s annual sports broadcasting institute. He offered advice on career to journalists and shared some thoughts about WNBC.

Back in April, he was let go from WNBC after being there since the Mets won the World Series, 1986.

He revealed that he hasn’t watch Sue and Chuck on “News 4 New York” since he left. “The last six months were not fun,” Berman said.

He added, “They got rid of the studio and started doing the news in a closet.” Of course, he referred the station’s studio move from Studio 6B to Studio 7E (which 7E used to be a conference room). Studio 6B is now used for “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

Berman added that he is not done with broadcasting yet. He still sees local sports will have a role in the community.

As a News 4 “junkie” for the past twelve something years, I have noticed there has been a difference between the anchors and reporters in the last year. You can tell they are more tense and feared to get that purple envelope. WNBC’s former set in Studio 6B was one of the best sets I’ve seen on television. With its rear projector producing a CG animation of the New York City skyline with the cars, water, and lights, animating and moving; it added that this set was well planned out. I don’t know how much it cost, but I estimated 3 million dollars were invested to this set; including its projectors.

Weekend sports anchor Bruce Beck replaced Len Berman. I won’t complain Beck is a bad sports anchor, in fact he is my second favorite, but I will always miss Len and his “Spanning the World” segments.

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