Putting the U back in UGC
Today we begin open our first New York based Travel Channel Academy bootcamp. We are now running these in NY, DC and LA. (next week, we’ll go back to LA). The appetite for this seems pretty limitless, (and at...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy 6 – DC
We’re running our 6th Travel Channel Academy – with many more still to come. In fact, enrollments are running so fast, we’re already expanding. The session in DC is carrying 40 students. And we’re opening in New York (at...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Opens LA Branch
and that’s the way it is…. Today we’re in Hollywood.
Read moreVJ Report from Afghanistan
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaTgRPr4O4] One of our instructors here at The Travel Channel Academy is Bill Gentile. I first met Bill in 1993, when we were training out very first group of VJs. Bill was a photojournalist for Newsweek, who had cut...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – again!
Pay attention! We are back at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Md, to conduct yet another Travel Channel Academy. We are going straight from here to Los Angeles to start one there. Enrollments have been filling classes in...
Read moreThe Power of Television
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyCzyuQQTc] Watch This!!! We are in Newport, at the boat show (more on this tomorrow), and after 8 hours of looking at boats, we are laying in bed in the hotel watching The Travel Channel.
Read moreMichael Yamashita – Pitching The Travel Channel
Welcome to the world of Michael Yamashita.
Read moreThe Four Cs
Brandon Follett prepares to ‘Bourdain’ a roach in Thailand…. I spent most of yesterday screening submissions for “What’s Your Trip”, a new series we are producing for The Travel Channel.
Read moreWhat is a "TJ"…and what does it matter?
…just the tip of the iceberg…. Now we’ve completed our initial pilot 3 Travel Channel Academy seminars. We have passed some 65 people through the sessions. More are to come. Many more. Starting in September, we are going to...
Read morePieces from The Academy
Here are three pieces produced from the most recent Travel Channel Academies. More will follow.
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