Serious topics are turned slightly sideways when looked at through the eyes of Ted Brown. He joined Channel 4's Eyewitness News in 1982 after 3 years of digging up light hearted feature stories in the dust-clouded landscape of his native Oklahoma. Then there was the one about how to turn a weed-eater into your own home security system. Six years ago, Ted turned his attention to the growing popularity of the personal computer. In it, he views, reviews and discusses hardware, software and some of the better things to do on the Internet.
Television is a terrific way to show people how something works, or what happened and why.
It's the video that makes television the unique medium that it is. Visual gags are still Ted's favorites in his stories. So far, those stories have earned him 11 Suncoast Emmys, three Edward R. Murrow awards and several Florida Associated Press awards. Ted lives with his wife Valerie, their new-born daughter Brooke and seven dogs in the San Jose neighborhood of Jacksonville. He says it's easy to tell what's going on in his life, because whatever it is, it will be the subject of his next story.