Academy 2 Wraps
The Class of July 21, 2007 Today we wrapped the 2nd Travel Channel Academy. Next week we will start again on the third. If this class is any indication of how well this will work, I would like to...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Round 2
Today we start on the 2nd Travel Channel Academy. This time we are running the course in Discovery’s HQ in Silver Spring, Md. And as of this morning, twenty eager young documentary and filmmakers have learned the first lessons...
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
Read moreTJ Academy – 2 July sessions – sign up now!
Travel Channel President & GM Pat Younge meets with Academy participants. If you want to break into the TV business, you can’t beat this kind of access…. We are taking enrollment for the Travel Channel Academy. We are running...
Read moreTwo Pieces from KGTV Bootcamp
The KGTV bootcamp is proceeding extremely well. So well in fact that I am already posting two of the ‘training’ pieces, done on the fourth day of training. Looks like everyone has done a great job, but as I...
Read moreTC Academy Goes Live
….from pilot to reality….. In the TV business, one first does a pilot. If it rates it goes to series. In March of this year, we ran a pilot of our Travel Channel Academy in partnership with The Travel...
Read moreKGTV Part 4
…now we’ve reached critical mass…. This week, we returned to KGTV for the fourth VJ (or as they call it here), DC (for Digital Correspondent) bootcamp. There are 10 journalists, camerapeople, editors, producers as well as one assignment editor...
Read moreYou Won’t See This on Local News….*
Just in from 5Takes Latin America….. Here is the most recent vlog from ‘tj’ Erika as she and 4 others make their way across Latin America. (Glad to see you found it) We supplied them with video cameras, laptops...
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 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....
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