:: Earl Green - Freelance Television Writer / Producer ::

For our special preview show covering the first Arkansas Razorbacks football game of the season, which also happens to be a rematch with the USC Trojans (who spanked the Hogs by 70-odd points in their last meeting), I dipped into the archives a bit and basically borrowed my own spot from nearly 10 years ago - though I’ll admit that with the benefit of non-linear editing, cutting that previous spot on tape felt like an epic, heroic feat, while this one almost came across as anticlimactic. It’s a decent enough spot in its own right though.

Today marks my 17th anniversary of working in broadcasting. I am also 34 years old. I’ll let you work out the slightly depressing math there.

Having spent half my life in the local broadcasting business, however, I feel like I’m qualified to off you a little bit of advice, especially the youngsters out there (assuming any of them are reading this). And I think it’s fairly sound advice. (more…)