How The Travel Channel Could Save Itself
That’s gratitude for you… There is an old expression that says ‘never bite the hand that feeds you’. There is also an old expression that says, ‘when your friend is drowing, throw them a life preserver’. I am torn...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T687IdXpCwc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] could be on Nickelodeon or an After School Special… Two years ago, David Besemer took our TCA course in Santa Barbara. He did a pretty good video on Toot, the water taxi in the Santa Barbara harbor. When...
Read moreA Travel Channel Academy Success Story
From cop who watches TV to TV cop… About a year ago, Jay Russell, a former South Carolina State Trooper appeared at one of our Travel Channel Academy classes in NY. He was the kind of State Trooper who...
Read moreHow To Make Better Home Videos
Trying to figure something out… For the past week we have been running TCA at Sea, in partnership with Crystal Cruises. As I write this we’re off the coast of Mozambique, headed north to Zanzibar, our next port of...
Read moreResults from TCA 145
I am in Boston today, but I wanted to post a few of the videos that came out of Travel Channel Academy 145 last week. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVsdRX97Kvg[/youtube] Jalanda came into the class never having touched a camera or an edit....
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Today we start day 3 of the Travel Channel Academy in NY!
Read moreRaising The Bar
This is a camera…. This morning we are kicking off a New York Travel Channel Academy. This is, in fact, academy number 145. And the demand is as strong as ever – stronger in fact, than when we started...
Read moreWe Make The NY Times Today
You spell it t.r.a.v.e.l.c.h…… This morning, I am very happy to relate, we got mention in The New York Times for the Travel Channel Academy. Matt Gross, who writes the column for The Times called me last week to...
Read moreA VJ Success Story
Tony Martin, on left Tony Martin. We met him at NYU. He took the Travel Channel bootcamp. He was selected to be one of the VJs on 5Takes. Then, we did not hear from him for some time. Until...
Read moreHere Comes Everybody – Part 2
Today is Day 2 of the Travel Channel Academy in DC. We’re at Travel Channel HQ, and Travel Channel’s CEO Jonathan Sichel addressed the group to explain how important and central the VJ ‘army’ is the Travel Channel’s future...
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