We Open in Chicago
The Travel Channel Academy starts in Chicago today. 40 new Travel Channel Journalists met this morning at the Downtown Sheraton to start their intensive 4-day bootcamp. Travel Channel VP Sue Norton was here to meet them, and explain how...
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Professional photographer Judy Rolfe was a participant in last week’s Travel Channel Academy in Washington, DC. Here a few photos she was kind enough to send us: And here is a link to her blog, where she recounts her...
Read moreMore Than 10 Billion Served
The Revolution Will Be Televised…. The Wall Street Journal reports on Wednesday, March 5th that: “in December, Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online, according to comScore Inc. – one of the single heaviest months for online...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – DC
Right on the heels of the NY Academy, we are down in DC kicking off the next Travel Channel Academy. Channel President Pat Younge was here to talk to the group and explain their place as the Channel moves...
Read moreRothschild Speaks
Executive Producer (and Academy grad) Lori Rothschild Travel Channel President and GM Pat Younge recently declared that all employees of The Travel Channel will have to take the Academy VJ training course. It’s a good move. We start with...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy NYC
Back from Brussels Wednesday night, and Thursday at 9AM we kick off yet another NY based Travel Channel Academy. Matt Gould, VP for Development addressed the group this morning, and Pat Younge, President and GM for the network will...
Read moreGood Luck Tim French!
Tim works with Dutch Public TV I first met Tim French when I was at Oxygen Media. I had come to train 90 VJs to produce their day to day content. Tim was a staff editor, but he was...
Read moreVJ and The Election
If the first place new technologies find their ‘home’ is pornography, the second is generally politics. (Not that the two are that closely related). An article in yesterday’s NY Times brought this point into sharp focus. The demands of...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – DC
We have just completed another fantastic 4-day run of the Travel Channel Academy at Discovery HQ in Silver Spring, Md. The classes were great, and the students were visited and met with Pat Lafferty, Chief Creative Officer; Matt Gould,...
Read moreHow To Get Ratings
If you don’t get ratings, you don’t survive…. Saturday morning, Silver Spring Maryland and Eliza Booth, Head of Marketing is talking to the Travel Academy Class about how marketing and programming weaves together. There aren’t too many people in...
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