This 1973 news special promotes the quality of news photography produced by Houston's KPRC-TV during the previous year. The station entered the production to the National Press Photographers Association's 1973 Newsfilm Station of the Year competition. (The station did not win.) Unlike a simple highlight reel, the special constructs a framing narrative. After wrapping the Big 2 News evening broadcast, KPRC newsmen Fred Edison, Jack Cato, Bill Springer, Phil Lauter, and Gary James unwind at the nearby Charlie's Lounge to talk shop and trade news stories over drinks. Bob Brandon, chief cameraman at KPRC, shot the production. Featured stories include the arrest of the 'bandana bandit,' a deadly skyjacking, and a devastating earthquake in Nicaragua. Signing on the air on January 1, 1949, KPRC-TV is the oldest television station in Houston and the second-oldest station in the state. (At the time of its first broadcast, the station was known as KLEE-TV. It changed its call letters in 1950 upon its purchase by the Hobby family.)