A Commitment to Literacy
Travel Channel President Pat Younge brings literacy to his staff Television is a strange industry. The New York Times is filled with people who aspire to be print journalists; to be writers. As a result, when you walk into...
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Today, we are running a very special Travel Channel Academy in Washington. This one is only for employees of The Travel Channel. President and GM Pat Younge as mandated that all employees of The Travel Channel, from producers to...
Read moreThree From the TCA
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Read moreDog & The Drug Hunter
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtvMtMFVuU&hl=en] The Travel Channel Academy gives everyone a great opportunity to take a crack at the TV world. One of our recent grads has really taken his TCA experience to heart. A few posts ago, I wrote about Jay...
Read moreWe 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 moreDo The Right Thing
Don’t point that cell phone at me! The New York Times is carrying a story today that Nokia and filmmaker Spike Lee have signed a deal to create content out of ‘User Generated Content” made on Nokia phones. Nokia...
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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 moreTravel Channel Academy – Chicago
We are in the third day of the Academy, our first one in Chicago. Despite yesterday’s snowstorm, we’re having a great result:
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