Beyond Mentos and Coke Bottles….
The Class of 05/07 On Sunday afternoon we concluded the first ‘pilot’ of the Travel Channel Academy VJ training course. It was a great success.
Read moreKGTV VJs – How Does it Work?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujY4i8tP_p4] KGTV tells their story better than I could Here is a look at how VJs work in local news. It is produced by KGTV, where we will be next month to do another round of training. Ed Quinn...
Read moreThe Road to Recovery
We can kick this thing… we can….. As anyone who has ever attended an AA meeting will tell you, the road to recovery begins with honesty Before you can get ‘better’ you have to be honest about the problem....
Read moreWhat Does It Look Like?
images that once could move a nation….. In November, 1936, Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine gave birth to a new publication: LIFE. We barely remember it now, but at one time LIFE was an American icon. People waited...
Read morePutting the VJ Army to Work
Adam Kaufmann, VJ at work on Drew Carey’s Sporting World….. In 1990 I formed a company called Video News International. By 1992 I had trained and equipped about 100 VJs around the world. No one had ever heard of...
Read moreSechrist + Rosenblum = Professional VJ Training
Now available to anyone……. Mike Sechrist, GM forWKRN is leaving his job. He was and remains one of the greatest champions of the VJ model. And at WKRN he made it work, and showed massive profits from his website....
Read more1-Day VJ Turn
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3rhfS_P50o] Does this answer your question? The “VJ” question ultimately comes down to one of quality. Recently at RTNDA, news directors raised this question. Gary Brown, ND from KTGV aired this piece. That was pretty much the end of...
Read moreAnd now…. lose the Building….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVw7YQwIaw] WKRN GM Mike Sechrist at Bloggers Convention Almost a year ago, Mike Sechrist invited me to come down to Nashville for a Bloggers Convention. I had been to plenty of Current.tv ‘meet ups’, but this was different. These...
Read moreAnchors Away
That works out to…. $144,000.00 per hour… Hooray!!! The Guardian, (and Jeff Jarvis) are reporting today that Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC told a committee of Parliament that he foresaw the end of ‘anchors’ in the...
Read moreThink Small
time for a change……. In 1988, I was invited to a party at Barry Rebo’s loft on 25th Street in NY. Rebo was one of the most aggressive early adapters in the production business. He had brought the first...
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