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What this section is…and isn’t
This section is an archive of my best work from my days in broadcast TV and radio. I spent a combined total of 17 years in broadcasting, starting from my teenage years. I could probably take up a whole other blog just telling old war stories, but this is where I let my work speak for itself, except for where I step in to give each spot some context and explain how I achieved certain effects. If your computer is equipped with the Flash player - and I'm not sure they even make computers now that aren't - you can even view the spots at a reasonable (but small and space-saving) resolution.
Any music, show footage, logos and other copyrighted intellectual property that appears here is owned by either the stations, networks, music libraries or syndicators; this material only appears here in the context of how I used it in these spots. Unless otherwise noted, all spots actually aired.
Where I am now
I now do freelance video production, concentrating mostly on post though I do occasionally do some shooting, at my home studio. You can learn more about that business at theLogBook.com Media. Since bailing out of broadcast at the end of 2006, I have produced three direct-to-DVD projects with more on the way, done web video conversions and interactive web video pieces for clients, did graphic design and post for a half-hour talk show pilot and continue to work on other projects. I haven't been starving by a long shot. I also now have a son who's racing toward the tender age of two, and I couldn't ask for a better edit suite buddy.
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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
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There were many more promos produced in the latter half of 2000 than usual due to the resurrection of the news department at competing NBC 24/51. A good sized flock of 40/29 personnel left for the new gig, including weather anchor Steve Gibbs, reporters Tobie Edwards and Rhonda Justice, and others. Their news debuted on August 3rd, 2000 (one day after the end of July sweeps), and with that in mind, management at 40/29 took the decision to treat the August-September-October doldrums like one big sweeps period leading up to the November book, just to make sure we were in the limelight at much as 24/51.
I wasn’t originally hired to do production, promotions, or even graphics. My initial job description at Fox 46 was a plain, simple, full-time board op. But overnight shifts are frightfully dull, and I wound up experimenting with the station’s Video Toaster 2000. This would have one of two results: I’d get fired, or someone would notice that I was demonstrating an interest in doing something other than manning the control room all the time. The station’s sole promotions producer at the time did notice, and soon I was helping him tag episodic promos for syndicated shows. In mid-1994, the station acquired a second-hand Video Toaster 4000, a much more powerful system…which came with absolutely no documentation whatsoever, and was on the verge of obsolescence. It sat in a room adjoining the control room, unused, until I began to feel my way around that system during the overnight shift as well. Early in 1995, Fox 46 premiered its own nightly five-minute weathercast, having acquired a relatively powerful PC-based graphics system in mid-’94. With these two tools at my disposal, I began to produce on-air work in earnest, though often unofficially.
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