During that time he was also anchor of WNBC-TV's NEWSCENTER 4 local news program seen in the New York market. He was the first to do NBC News Update, which was a major, and risky, addition to the Network scene at the time. It pre-dated the explosion of cable television that came later. Prior to that, a lot of stops in between, that included KYW-TV, in Philadelphia and KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. It was a busy period for the Wisconsin native, who in his own way was breaking new ground each day. Here was a man in a rare setting: pulling off both local and network television programming without missing a beat. He was literally, everywhere.