Fox 5 News & Dateline NBC of Sunday evening.

I decided to watch the local news channel for this blog, so I chose Fox 5 on Sunday evening. Like any other news & radio broadcast show's focus lately, the main topic was on the shocking death of R&B, Pop, and Soul legend Whitney Houston. The headline said "Whitney Houston Dead at 48". As they went into the information about what they are finding out about her death, FOX 5 received the information that she died in a bathtub at a hotel in Los Angeles. They said that she apparently "fell asleep", although they don't know the cause of death just yet. They also released the name of the drug that she apparently was taking. I actually found this news broadcast very interesting because they had included a snippet of Frank Ski's interview on his show this morning, and used it for this story. So not only was it a news broadcast on TV, but they showed Frank Ski & Wanda's V103 radio show. They also talked about Jenifer Hudson and some others doing a tribute for her on the Grammy's.

I also watched Dateline NBC's story on Whitney Houston also, which went into a more detailed outline of her life & her story leading up to her tragic death that happened yesterday. It was entitled "Remembering Whitney: A Dateline Special". I favored this TV news broadcast better than Fox 5 because they of course had to keep it simple. I learned a lot about Whitney Houston herself, because this was an actually hour long story about her. I didn't know that she sung the National Anthem at the Super Bowl in 1991. It included A LOT of her songs too (music playing in the background & also her videos), so it kept my attention while I was jotting down information for this blog. It had interviews from other people that were close to her, such as Toure' & Bobby Brown and also interviews from her when she was alive. It was very touching. Then they had reactions, words, and interviews and words from Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, L.A. Reid, Joe Levy, Kim Burrell and Kelly Price. New Hope Baptist Church in New Jersey, which was her church back home paid a tribute for her as well as many in Los Angeles, where she passed away. Dateline actually got to interview her childhood friends back home, East Orange. They had the video of her last interview in November, and a strange trip to the "Holy Land", where she got baptized in the Jordan River. But for her last interview she was in Detroit shooting her film Sparkle, which was a remake. It was so touching. Well, i'm about to watch the rest of the story now. Bye. :)