Just another reason to be assured that these blogs are a good idea:
A few months ago my aunt emailed me to tell me that she had Googled (like how that's a verb now?) my name found my blog and thought it was really interesting. I thought it was really neat that it came up like that.
Just yesterday I got an email from a woman asking about my ProScout experience. She said she searched the web for people's experiences and found my blog, got my email and wanted to know how I felt about everything. I thought it was really cool that she just happened to find my blog and can get some info from me. I emailed her back, hopefully it helped!
The blogs are useful and people are reading them! Good times!
November 3, 2004
October 31, 2004
Ashlee Simpson wasn't lying!
In case you missed it or haven't heard about it, Ashlee Simpson got busted lip synching on last week's Saturday Night Live. She synched the first song, then when she went to sing the 2nd number they accidentally played her first song again and she was clearly not singing. Ashlee first blamed her band for playing the wrong song, then her rep said she had acid reflux and lost her voice, then they said she had laryngitis, and a slew of excuses came out.
It turns out that a crew from CBS's 60 Minutes were doing a story about SNL's creative process and were rolling tape during Ashlee's rehearsal. They have video of her barely getting through the rehearsal, then running off stage crying and holding her throat. They also show the actually live mess up, and Ashlee running offstage again. It also shows an SNL rep coming out of Ashlee's dressing room saying, "Oh my god!"
I think it's a pretty interesting story to follow. It's no secret that many artists out there today lipsynch or sing along to tracks at live performances, but this is the first real incident of someone getting busted since Milli Vanilli! Luckily for Ashlee the old saying holds true: Any publicity is good publicity.
It turns out that a crew from CBS's 60 Minutes were doing a story about SNL's creative process and were rolling tape during Ashlee's rehearsal. They have video of her barely getting through the rehearsal, then running off stage crying and holding her throat. They also show the actually live mess up, and Ashlee running offstage again. It also shows an SNL rep coming out of Ashlee's dressing room saying, "Oh my god!"
I think it's a pretty interesting story to follow. It's no secret that many artists out there today lipsynch or sing along to tracks at live performances, but this is the first real incident of someone getting busted since Milli Vanilli! Luckily for Ashlee the old saying holds true: Any publicity is good publicity.
October 28, 2004
What a crazy week!
This week in broadcasting has been pretty easy to me, but everything else in my world is CRAZY! I had a little mental breakdown yesterday, oops! I was sitting at musical rehearsal and just ran through all of the things I have to do in the next few days and it made my head start spinning! School work is getting in the way of all my extracurricular stuff and it's getting somewhat hard to balance. Kiss Me, Kate is opening in 2 weeks, so after that is over I will have all of my evenings back. I'm excited for the show, though! The County Line has a little Halloween theme going on this week. It's not like last year's Halloween Special (which nearly killed us all) but it's still going to be fun! I also made a promo for the Lambda Sigma Clothing Drive which is going on this week. It's the second promo that I can add to my senior project. One more to go!
The career search has been nonexistant this week because I've been focusing on everything else. We met with Meg Camaredese from CNN this week and she was really cool. I got her email information so hopefully I can contact her in the future. I also have Bowers and Batulis in the "real world" who might be able to hook me up w/ some job opps in the future. Networking is everything!
I found an article in the Turkish Press (it's good to look at non-US media sources sometimes to see how other cultures view the news) saying Europe's top-selling newspaper, Germany's tabloid daily Bild, endorsed George W. Bush for US president Wednesday, saying he would do a better job fighting terror and not ask Berlin to send troops to Iraq. I think it's interesting that a world power like Germany has people endorsing leaders in another country. Pretty interesting to see just how far the election coverage can reach!
The career search has been nonexistant this week because I've been focusing on everything else. We met with Meg Camaredese from CNN this week and she was really cool. I got her email information so hopefully I can contact her in the future. I also have Bowers and Batulis in the "real world" who might be able to hook me up w/ some job opps in the future. Networking is everything!
I found an article in the Turkish Press (it's good to look at non-US media sources sometimes to see how other cultures view the news) saying Europe's top-selling newspaper, Germany's tabloid daily Bild, endorsed George W. Bush for US president Wednesday, saying he would do a better job fighting terror and not ask Berlin to send troops to Iraq. I think it's interesting that a world power like Germany has people endorsing leaders in another country. Pretty interesting to see just how far the election coverage can reach!
October 22, 2004
A much-needed break
I'm home a Fall break right now and loving it. Even though I'm not supposed to have to do any work, I'm doing it anyway! I can't help but think about all the stuff I have going on that's brewing in the back of my mind!
This week in broadcasting has been pretty easy because it was only a 3-day week. Megan and I had a REALLY good morning show on Monday. Great info and great talk breaks between us. I had a good shift on Wednesday, too. I'm ready to get everything ready for The County Line this week. We lost some prep time, but we have a full week to prepare for the show so hopefully things will go well. I also went to AV services and got dubs of 3 shows so that I can go back and critique everyone's performance. I think that feedback is necessary, since when you're actually taping a show you don't get to really see anything, it's just chaos and screaming... at least on my party, anyway! Haha! I'm also going to start hunkering down on my senior project because I took on a lot of different tasks that I need to get done before Winter break.
In the career search I haven't done too much this week. I turned 22 yesterday (I'M SO OLD!) and I officially feel like an adult! I've actually been having dreams lately about what my future will be. The more and more I think about it, I just want to move as soon as I graduate. I want a job really bad, too. I definitely think it's going to be a gametime decision on what I do. May is still kinda far off... or at least I'll pretend.
I found this article saying Viacom's Nickelodeon Channel will pay $1 million and the Disney's ABC Family Channel will turn over $500,000 to resolve "potential violations" found during Federal Communications Commission audits conducted in the last quarter of 2003. Now, is it just me or is the FCC just blasting EVERYONE lately?! I know that there's a call to turn the "indecency" on TV right now around, but it seems like they're just looking for chances to hand out fines.
This week in broadcasting has been pretty easy because it was only a 3-day week. Megan and I had a REALLY good morning show on Monday. Great info and great talk breaks between us. I had a good shift on Wednesday, too. I'm ready to get everything ready for The County Line this week. We lost some prep time, but we have a full week to prepare for the show so hopefully things will go well. I also went to AV services and got dubs of 3 shows so that I can go back and critique everyone's performance. I think that feedback is necessary, since when you're actually taping a show you don't get to really see anything, it's just chaos and screaming... at least on my party, anyway! Haha! I'm also going to start hunkering down on my senior project because I took on a lot of different tasks that I need to get done before Winter break.
In the career search I haven't done too much this week. I turned 22 yesterday (I'M SO OLD!) and I officially feel like an adult! I've actually been having dreams lately about what my future will be. The more and more I think about it, I just want to move as soon as I graduate. I want a job really bad, too. I definitely think it's going to be a gametime decision on what I do. May is still kinda far off... or at least I'll pretend.
I found this article saying Viacom's Nickelodeon Channel will pay $1 million and the Disney's ABC Family Channel will turn over $500,000 to resolve "potential violations" found during Federal Communications Commission audits conducted in the last quarter of 2003. Now, is it just me or is the FCC just blasting EVERYONE lately?! I know that there's a call to turn the "indecency" on TV right now around, but it seems like they're just looking for chances to hand out fines.
October 14, 2004
Homecoming's Here!
It's hard to believe that it's homecoming at Westminster already! I feel like it was just August a few days ago! This weekend is going to be a lot of fun. Theta Chi is doing Scooby Doo as their float and I get to be a zombie! Rock on! I've been pretty busy with dance team, dance theater, and Kiss Me, Kate. Broadcasting does keep me the busiest of all though!
This week in broadcasting I shot another package the The County Line. I revisted flood victims that I talked to one month ago just as the floodwaters reached their peak. Now that things are dried up and back to normal some people are having harder times than others. Patty Twigg of New Wilmington had VERY little damage to her rental home, even though the water came up to her front door. People just down the road, however, lost almost everything on the ground levels of their homes and even had to be rescued by boat! Check out The County Line this week, 7:30 on Thursday and Friday on WCN!
The hunt for a job is always in the back of my mind... Unlike many of my fellow capstoners, I don't really have time to find a job outside of my duties as News Director at Westminster. I've been making The County Line my priority since sophomore year, and it's not something that I am ready to scale back any time soon. I know that I need to start getting my resume and resume tapes ready to send out to potential employers, but right now I'm just enjoying doing a lot of extracurricular activities because once I enter the "real world" I won't have much time to do those kinds of things.
I found an article this week called "On the Hot Seat" about how network execs are finding the heat shifted to them once ratings start to decline. In the fall season to date, NBC has seen its ratings in the key 18-49 demographic fall 16 percent, while CBS has seen an 11 percent jump and ABC has seen a gain of 3 percent. NBC exec Jeff Zucker is now coming under fire after the network passed on the show "Desperate Housewives" which is now a huge success for ABC. Looks like the ratings are going to be shifting, and that might cost some people their jobs! Oh, the stability of broadcasting!
This week in broadcasting I shot another package the The County Line. I revisted flood victims that I talked to one month ago just as the floodwaters reached their peak. Now that things are dried up and back to normal some people are having harder times than others. Patty Twigg of New Wilmington had VERY little damage to her rental home, even though the water came up to her front door. People just down the road, however, lost almost everything on the ground levels of their homes and even had to be rescued by boat! Check out The County Line this week, 7:30 on Thursday and Friday on WCN!
The hunt for a job is always in the back of my mind... Unlike many of my fellow capstoners, I don't really have time to find a job outside of my duties as News Director at Westminster. I've been making The County Line my priority since sophomore year, and it's not something that I am ready to scale back any time soon. I know that I need to start getting my resume and resume tapes ready to send out to potential employers, but right now I'm just enjoying doing a lot of extracurricular activities because once I enter the "real world" I won't have much time to do those kinds of things.
I found an article this week called "On the Hot Seat" about how network execs are finding the heat shifted to them once ratings start to decline. In the fall season to date, NBC has seen its ratings in the key 18-49 demographic fall 16 percent, while CBS has seen an 11 percent jump and ABC has seen a gain of 3 percent. NBC exec Jeff Zucker is now coming under fire after the network passed on the show "Desperate Housewives" which is now a huge success for ABC. Looks like the ratings are going to be shifting, and that might cost some people their jobs! Oh, the stability of broadcasting!
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