Yesterday was almost an exciting day, three different times, but nothing happened. I actually find it odd that so much could have happened yesterday, yet none of the stories panned out. First, back on March 28th a quick but violent storm blew threw Charlotte and dumped nickle to quarter sized hail throughout the neighborhood. (For [...]
Today the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education voted to eliminate the district’s entire video production department, including its public access television station. Therefore, I and all my co-workers will no longer have a job after June 30th. This was part of an overall “reduction in force” due to the failing economy. You’ll notice I’m not [...]
Today I attended a middle school career fair and manned a booth representing the television industry. While I was there I observed several interesting things. I wish the following stories were an April Fools joke but unfortunately they’re not. I set up one of our broadcast video cameras on a tripod and connected it to [...]
Earlier today a friend posted a funny local television commercial to Facebook. It was for a used trailer home seller and featured the hilarious tag line of “Come on down to Cullman Liquidation and get yourself a home, or don’t, I don’t care.” That’s when I followed the post-roll to a website called I Love [...]
The 23rd Regional Emmy Awards were held in Nashville this past weekend so I checked their website to see how many of my past co-workers at WSOC / WAXN were nominated for awards. I was surprised to find that some of MY spots were nominated for an Emmy. What!? Yup, my work was nominated for [...]
This has probably been the busiest December I’ve ever had. I’m not quite done with a stretch where I’ll have worked late for 9 of 11 consecutive days. Starting with last Monday December 8th, I worked late due to Monday Night Football. Then I worked late on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday because we’re recording a [...]
It’s been a busy week. On top of my normal work week, I put in an extra 4 hours working a Board meeting on Tuesday and I stayed late on Friday too, closing up the station. We take turns on Board meetings and it just happened to be my turn, and Friday was just one [...]
Today we were taping a school board meeting. That’s not uncommon, but due to the length of the meeting I sat in and switched for an hour. The only reason I mention this is because it was the first time I switched a live or live-to-tape event since my PSTV days way back in college. [...]
Last night
Darah was sick for most of a week last week, and then she was sick again for a few days this week. I took a couple of sick days but Patty took more time off than me to stay home with Darah. Patty’s employer was “not accommodating” and let her go yesterday, making it clear [...]