At Brooklyn High School Named for Murrow, the Television Studios Are Dark.

Frankie Fidilio was collecting scrap metal for money in Brooklyn when the gleam of iron behind a school caught his eye. There were teetering stacks of old televisions, obsolete video transfer machines and clunky cassette recorders. Even a 250-pound stationary studio camera like something out of a museum. A scrapper by trade, as well as a star in the reality show ''Scrappers,'' Mr. Fidilio called the custodian, who told him that the equipment was being junked and he was free to take it. ''I was like, holy cow, this seems like a whole department,'' Mr. Fidilio recalled telling him. ''And he goes: 'Yeah it is. They're gone.' '' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]