We Open in Santa Barbara
Finally! Yesterday, we added Santa Barbara to our locations for the Travel Channel Academy. And what a nice place it is! We are housed at the Brooks Institute for photography, right in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, and...
Read moreRequiem for a Network
Barbarians at the Gate: Odoacer takes the number one slot, prime time and otherwise 1976 marked the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire. It passed pretty much unnoticed. 1976 had been the 200th anniversary of...
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Please Stand By…… Its called ‘leapfrog technology’. Its the ability to bypass an old infrastructure completely and go immediately to what the newest technologies can create. Vietnam’s adaptation of mobile phone technology is an example of leapfrog. Rather than...
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A little to the left….. a little to the right…. OK… wait…. Technologies have the ability to turn the world upside down without our even noticing. Not too many years ago, TV signals came into your house through the...
Read moreNBC Green is Universal is Crap
While NBC preaches Green and urges you to cut back, they burn the midnight oil. I have just finished reading James Lovelock’s The Revenge of Gaia. Lovelock is the British scientist who formulated the Gaia Theory almost 40 years...
Read moreAll In The Family
President Obama is a what???? Passover in Miami with my family and my nephew Adam, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, is working on a paper for his “Media and Culture” class. The topic is the impact...
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No drugs in FCP…. When he walked into the training room for the Travel Channel Academy, he was hard to miss. DEA uniform. Gleaming bald head and a South Carolina good old boy accent that made Sheriff Taylor sound...
Read moreIrresistable Video
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQ3HgXM8dY&hl=en]] Pulitzer Prize winning author Tony Horwitz sells his books online with video About a million years ago (or just a hair over 5,000 years ago if you live near the Creation Museum in Kentucky), man learned to walk...
Read moreHere’s The Pitch….
OK. Well how about this one….. Pitching a show to a network is a pain… You get the meeting, and when you walk into the room, the VP for Programming sits behind his or her desk, hands clasped behind...
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