Travel Channel Academy at Sea
There’s a Great White around here somewhere… I am filing this from the Crystal Serenity, a top of the line luxury cruise ship, and we’re now just rounding the Cape of Good Hope off South Africa on our way...
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....
Read moreTravel Channel Academy NY
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 moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Jonathan Sichel, acting President and CEO of Travel Channel addresses the group and explains how important TCA is. everyone else takes it all in We don’t call it bootcamp for nothing! (only kidding).
Read moreThe World’s Greatest Filmmaking Course
Getting the wide shot… Next month we will depart with around 40 participants on what I think will be the world’s greatest filmmaking and video course ever. Or at least that is how I see it. We’re running our...
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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