Fairfield News: Attempted Car Break-Ins
2023-08-08@9:58pm--Fairfield News: Attempted car break-ins off Post Road near Citgo station. The suspect in a white sedan rams witness's car and is still at large.
Tonight’s Vehicle Fire
9:12pm--#Fairfield CT--#cttraffic-- Tonight's vehicle fire is being hosted by Fairfield on I-95 northbound near exit 22. The car was fully engulfed and Fairfield's Bravest quickly extinguished it. Love the special effects of the broken traffic cameras. Your taxes at work!
Steve In 1977
DoingItLocal's Steve in 1977.
What Frequency Is Bridgeport Police On?
This is a question I get often, what frequency is the Bridgeport Police on. Its the same frequency they have always been on, the difference is they are digitally encrypted so no scanner can hear the communications. So how do I monitor them? I have received special permission from the chief of police to purchase a modified Bridgeport Police radio. It is a standard portable handheld Motorola radio. It had to be modified so that if I key the microphone I cannot broadcast, and it only receives channel one (of six), the dispatch channel. It wasn't cheap either, $1,500. Fortunately local businessman Jeremy Brock from Recover MyFlashDrive.com came to our rescue and purchased it in exchange for advertising. Jeremy was…
Want Me To Visit Your Place of Business?
I often get requests from viewers to stop up and visit where they work. I love meeting everyone and enjoy visiting. If you want me to visit your place of work please e-mail me at DoingItLocal.com@gmail.com Let me know what days and hours you are working and of course the address and I'll try to make it up. With breaking news it is sometimes hard to make appointments but I will of course do the best I can. Here I am with viewer Jellybean at Jersey Mike's Subs on Black Rock Turnpike in Fairfield where she works: A recibo peticiones de los seguidores a visitar en el local que trabajan. Me encanta conocer a todo el mundo y disfrutar de…
Welcome to DoingItLocal.com!
We've been around for over 5 years. So why am I saying welcome to DoingItLocal.com? [caption id="attachment_24611" align="alignright" width="205"] Steve KrauchickOwner of DoingItLocal.com[/caption] Since our news story on the woman crashing into the Cumberland Farms in Fairfield last week, it aired on all the TV stations in Connecticut, WABC-TV in New York and also Good Morning America! Since then our audience has mushroomed to an weekly Facebook audience of 163,760 as of this writing. Up 162.9% from previous week! That's not including our audience on Twitter or DoingItLocal.com, yes it is a website. Most view us on Facebook on their phones. We are different from most news organizations. We report on many news stories that aren't reported on like gas leaks because they…
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What’s with the hat?
When I first started covering news stories, police were rightfully suspicious and wonder who is this guy and why is he recording us? I also own a reminiscing website YouRememberThat.com and back in the day reporters would be wearing a fedora style hat and they would have their press pass in the band of their hat. It was a natural thing for me to do, and unnatural thing since I don't really like wearing hats. But it was an important thing for me to do because not many men wear fedoras these days and it stood out. It helped identify me with the public officials on who I am. Years ago I even had an assistant fire chief refuse to talk…
What Type of News Do We Cover?
Any business, especially a media business in this day and age needs to continuously look at their strengths and weaknesses and see how they can best serve the public. I have recently looked at what we do well and what we like to do and that is breaking news. For over five years now that is what we have excelled at using social media. There is no other way to deliver breaking news as it is breaking. I've always referred to our reporting as "Drive By Media". That is we are there, report and drive by to the next story. We don't have the manpower to do much follow up. Most of our reporting is scanner reporting. I report what…
When Do I Sleep?
Possibly the most asked question, when do I sleep? I intentionally work the night shift because that is when street crime and most breaking news happens. Just before I started [caption id="attachment_20157" align="alignright" width="300"] Two radios play quietly during dinner time. I don't wear a hat at dinner but I didn't think you'd recognize me without it![/caption] DoingItLocal.com a statewide TV station had a car crash into their studio just after midnight. You'd think they would have had the best video of the story. They didn't. There was no reporter or photographer at that hour. An assistant producer took a cellphone picture and that was their coverage. That also taught me there was an opportunity. On average I…