With A Little Help From My Friends

It's been a while since I posted. There is a reason for this. Let me explain...

I sent my blog to my General Manager. I wanted him to look it over, and let me know if I was breaking any policies that broadcasting companies have, and to let me know about things I can't share with my readers. I sent him the link over a month ago, but I haven't heard back from him. I'm sure he's just really busy. He is taking over a huge job, and we've added a bunch of stations to our "family", and I'm sure this is a lot of work.

But... I'm a "Television God". I don't have time to wait for some suits to let me know if everything is OK. My new attitude is to share, share, share... until someone tells me otherwise.

If you are one of my 3 subscribers (thank you), you may notice that the top of my blog is now awesome. It's custom graphics, fitting for a "Television God", like myself. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank publicly, James Manos. I gave him a description of what I needed, and he made this outstanding title graphic for me. Thanks again, Jimmy!

Let's talk about Jimmy for a minute. Jimmy works in our Creative Services department. He's responsible for some very important things here at the station. He takes care of our daily episodics. You know the ones... "On the next Dr. Phil..." Master Control takes a feed of these teases. They are different lengths. Jimmy takes each one, and adds our station logo, and full screen graphics, so they are for our station.

He is also the guy who makes the cool promos for big stories at the station. When sweeps time comes, he is busy making these promos, so folks tune in to watch our news for the "big story".

He also records news teases. He shoots the anchor, adds news video, and graphics. These teases show what's coming up on our news. He also makes custom graphics for news elements, to be used in our newscasts. He does even more, but I wouldn't know what those things are, as I just know the things that cross over into my job.

Over the next couple weeks, I'll be sharing the jobs that others at the station do, so you can get more of a feel of how things work. I like that my job brushes with other jobs here. We have to depend on each other to do the jobs correctly, so the next tasks go smoothly.

Next time, I'll show you photos of how my new digs are coming along.

"I get by with a little help from my friends."