Against all odds, North Carolina’s primary will actually matter this year, and quite a bit too since we have a disproportionate amount of delegates up for grabs. For weeks now there have been television and radio ads for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but this one in particular caught my eye. Politics completely aside, [...]
Yet another non-speaking role for me. This is a promotional spot currently running on-air for my sister-station’s mobile product. I was simply an actor in this one, and had nothing to do with writing, producing, or directing the spot.
If you can read this, the answer is yes. Kelly Pickler was on the television show “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader” tonight. As usual, she was a total embarrassment to the entire state of North Carolina. The media continues to use her astonishing ignorance to reinforce the negative stereotype of North Carolina education, [...]
On top all of the other damage to our house (that still isn’t being fixed yet), last week our living room television broke. This is the first time we’ve had to take the upcoming end of analog broadcasting into consideration. Since there’s no point in buying a new set that won’t even operate in a [...]
I watched the series premiere of On The Lot last night on Fox. It’s similar to the American Idol or The Apprentice but instead of trying to discover the next great singing star or business tycoon, they’re trying to discover the next great film director. In most ways it’s just a carbon copy of every [...]
One of my favorite blogs is Lost Remote, which focuses on emerging trends within the television industry. Unlike typical industry oriented publications, it’s not all stuffy business reports. Lost Remote is brief but well written, current, insightful, and often witty commentary about upcoming technologies and other factors that are shaping the television industry. So there’s [...]
Last year my television station launched a major multi-media promotional campaign for a contest called The Mayberry Code. (I blogged about receiving an Emmy nomination for the promo and I’ll find out if I won in two more weeks.) My totally original concept was to place Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show in the [...]
I found a brilliant promo for Animal Planet worth pointing out. Sorry I can’t embed the video here but view it at www.602communications.com. Amazing video, dramatic, profound, inspiring, deep, and of course it leaves you wondering what happens to the frog after the fade to black. Well done. P.S. As a big fan of The [...]
Nobody can deny that the Simpsons have been going downhill for years but I refused to believe that it had actually jumped the shark. The shark has been jumped. First of all, last night’s episode was just not funny at all. Secondly, the premise of this episode was that Homer joined the Army, a rip-off [...]
Today is WAXN-TV’s 10th birthday. The station officially signed-on air on August 4th, 1996. Happy Birthday! For the record this isn’t technically the birthday of “Action 64” because that branding line wasn’t introduced used until September 2nd, 1996.