Knight-Ridder Broadcasting, Inc v. Greenberg

OPINION OF THE COURT

Main, J. P.

In February 1986, a news reporter employed by petitioner’s Albany television station, WTEN-TV, conducted a taped interview of Donald Bent, whose wife had then been missing for several days. While there were no preconditions to the interview, it is alleged that a portion thereof was conducted under a promise of confidentiality. Approximately one minute of such taped interview was later broadcast on the station’s newscast. The remainder of the interview has never been broadcast.

After Joan Bent, Donald Bent’s wife, was found dead in the trunk of an automobile, Mr.…