CNN Producer David Bohrman Dead at 69

“David was one of the most innovative television news producers in history,” said CNN Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist. “It was David’s idea that election nights and newscasts could be produced with anchors standing in front of enormous video walls. Now newscasts all over the world are produced this way.”

John King, CNN’s chief national correspondent who is often seen spending election nights at the Magic Wall, as reflected on how David shaped TV news.

“David was a risk taker who every day wanted to find a better way to tell or show the story,” the journalist noted. “His decision to take then just emerging touch-screen technology and integrate [it] into our 2008 election coverage was nothing short of revolutionary. And it wasn’t just cutting-edge technology.”

He added, “David turned an old bus into a rolling television studio, bringing our political coverage into every corner of America. He made us better.”

David is survived by his wife Catherine Bohrman, children Amber and Harrison and his beloved granddaughters Sloan and Paige.