Why The Travel Channel Academy is Unique

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Matt Gould explains what the network wants…

If you are production company, you know the hard part is not coming up with ideas.

Everyone has great ideas for new TV shows.

The hard part is not even producing them.

The hard part is getting the meeting.

The hard part is getting in front of the network execs who make the decisions on what to commission, what to test, what to pilot, what to air.

Matt Gould is the VP for Program Development at The Travel Channel.

Part of our partnership with the Travel Channel, part of what the Academy delivers is access to network executives.

This morning, Matt spent the better part of the morning with the group, explaining exactly what the network is looking for for the next season.  He also heard pitches, answered questions and made himself available to the grads now and in the future.

It’s the kind of access most production companies can’t buy.

But for the students, all part of the curriculum.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 35 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.

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  • $ February 01, 2008

    QUOTE: ” It’s the kind of access most production companies can’t buy.”

    Oh but those students did pay for the access to Matt Gould!

    It was not free!

    They had to be a part of the course and the only way to do that was to pay!

    More hoopla and misleading statements about this whole VJ/Travel Channel set up!