TVLifer Spotlight: KULR's Nick Lough on Glenn Beck
What's it like to work in KULR's newsroom in Billings, Montana and get a call to do a Q & A with Glenn Beck on Fox News?
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FNF: WRDW tailgates with the teams
Each week TVLifer.com is going to examine a selected station from around the country and take a peak at how they cover High School Football. We all know from our experience in the business that Football is king on Friday nights; news sometimes takes a back seat to the gridiron gang from the local high schools.
This week’s feature: WRDW News 12 in Augusta, GA
Often times when football coaches look down there roster and see a bunch of returning letterman they can get pretty excited about their upcoming season. WRDW Sports Director Kevin Faigle knows that feeling. His “Operation Football Live” roster has the makings of a potential state champion. Every spot on the roster has experience, from the camera crew, to the production staff and the photographers. That has helped his team of young broadcasters produce a top notch show in the Augusta, Georgia TV market.
“It takes a lot of the pressure off when we have all done the show in the past,” said Faigle. “Photographers don’t have to worry about getting back late, production really steps up in helping keep the show together, it all makes a difference when we are all operation on the same page.”
Faigle and his sports side kick Matt Barnes are on their second season of High School football and they don't just tell the team where to go; they roll up their sleeves and shoot to make up the balance of an average 14 game night, which includes a live shot tailgate party with a victorious local squad.
Timing is everything in TV. Sometimes we get lucky and get those classic moments on tape. That’s the story with Photographer Chris Kennedy and Reporter Mia McCormick from SNN News-Sarasota, FL. They captured a runaway car plunging into a intercostals waterway in Nokomis on October 7th.
Just another typical morning in downtown Manhattan, the only difference was that Fox 5 NY was there to witness it and get it all on tape. How often do you have a video camera rolling when something like this breaks out?
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Catching up with Lou Raguse
TVLifer.com caught up with Lou Raguse, an Anchor / Reporter at Fox 11 in Arizona. Raguse has an interesting background, from his experience in the biz to his love of Rubik’s cube. He has been in Tucson, AZ (#66) for more than a year. Prior to his stop there he worked in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (#113) at KELO. Lou also won the William Randolph Hearst Championship in San Francisco, awarded to the top college journalist in the nation.
Find out what Lou had to say to TVLifer.com by visiting our TV Lifer Spotlight. Remember you have to be a member to view our spotlight segments. Sign-up is free and only takes a few minutes to join our team here at TVlifer.com. Lou is one of the many TV Professionals who is already on our team.
We all had our start in television somewhere across the United States. Lara Spencer of CBS’s “The Insider” spent some time with The Wall Street Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman and reflected on how she got to where she is today.
What inspired you to go into journalism?
A: I used to read the Sunday paper with my dad. I wrote for the high-school paper, and when I was at Penn State, a professor suggested I go into sports reporting because I was there on a full ride for diving. There's a school TV station, and I gave it a shot. It was incredibly exhilarating. Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
Q: You landed at a small news station in Chattanooga, Tenn. What was that like?
The Hawaii Media council is stepping in to stop a merger of three TV stations in the Hawaiian Islands. The merger of the two top-ratted network affiliates in the Honolulu market is raising quite a tidal wave of emotion. Andre S. Wooten, a local civil rights attorney who has worked in public television and produces public affairs programming in Honolulu weighted in on the story on the Star Bulletin’s web site.
It is against the public interest of having a wide diversity of news-outlet viewpoints on the public airwaves, and is therefore a violation of Federal Communications Commission licensing laws.
At the same time, the advertising advantages the companies seek from denying independent news coverage will make it harder for real local news-providing competitors to compete with them.
For decades since its inception in 1934, FCC rules forbade the ownership of more than one television station in any one market by the same owner, because it was against the public interest of having diverse news viewpoints.
However, big corporate media have been striving relentlessly for decades to maximize their advertising profits while limiting the diversity of news and programming viewpoints and voices in television.
Stations to create own local programs without networks
At a recent panel discussion at Marshall University titled “Blogging and the Potential Limits of the First Amendment,” branched off into a discussion of what the future of local television stations might be. Dr. Corley Dennison, dean of MU’s W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communication, feels stations may eventually be forced to create their own programming. Tony Rutherford of HuntingtonNews.net covered the discussion:
Digital TV was a big step for television news, but now it looks as if the next step will put the 6pm newscast right into the living rooms of their viewers. It may be a while before TV stations pick up the trend, but it's still exciting for the media industry. The San Francisco Chronicle looked at the future of 3-D TV.
"With the price of high-definition TVs sliding, display manufacturers are looking to 3-D in the home to drive the next big video experience.
Heavyweights Sony and Panasonic have announced plans to release 3-D television sets next year, while other major players such as Samsung and Mitsubishi have recently released 3-D-ready TVs. LG and Philips are also preparing for a 3-D future.
Add to that list of titans a small Los Gatos startup called HDI, which hopes it can help shape this emerging market.
"With our technology, we hope to raise the bar of what's available now," said Chris Stuart, director of technology at HDI. "We're trying to give the quality of IMAX in the home."
HDI's hopes reflect a larger optimism about the 3-D market. Hardware manufacturers hard-pressed by the commoditization of HD displays have cast an envious eye at the success of 3-D movies, which command a 40 percent premium on ticket prices and yet are outselling their 2-D counterparts."
Viewers say TV News highest value among media outlets
Numbers don't lie, but they can show the importance of our jobs. TV news is still very strong in the public eye according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Broadcast Engineering published this recent article that shows us the numbers have TV News still very strong. One key note is that internet media has surpassed print media.
"Despite today’s overall lack of confidence, the majority of the public continues to look upon traditional news media, including local TV news, newspapers and network TV, in a favorable light. While fewer view the media favorably than in 1985, 73 percent look on local TV news favorably, while 65 percent view newspapers favorably and 64 percent hold favorable opinions about network TV news.
The Pew research also revealed that many view coverage as being politically biased. According to the results, 60 percent said they sense political bias on the part of news organizations, while 26 percent say news organizations are careful to ensure there is not political bias in reporting.
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What's it like to work in KULR's newsroom in Billings, Montana and get a call to do a Q & A with Glenn Beck on Fox News?
Each week TVLifer.com is going to examine a selected station from around the country and take a peak at how they cover High School Football. We all know from our experience in the business that Football is king on Friday nights; news sometimes takes a back seat to the gridiron gang from the local high schools.
s experience, from the camera crew, to the production staff and the photographers. That has helped his team of young broadcasters produce a top notch show in the Augusta, Georgia TV market.
TVLifer.com caught up with Lou Raguse, an Anchor / Reporter at Fox 11 in Arizona. Raguse has an interesting background, from his experience in the biz to his love of Rubik’s cube. He has been in Tucson, AZ (#66) for more than a year. Prior to his stop there he worked in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (#113) at KELO. Lou also won the William Randolph Hearst Championship in San Francisco, awarded to the top college journalist in the nation.
We all had our start in television somewhere across the 
TV stations in the Hawaiian Islands. The merger of the two top-ratted network affiliates in the Honolulu market is raising quite a tidal wave of 
emotion. Andre S. Wooten, a local civil rights attorney who has worked in public television and produces public affairs programming in Honolulu weighted in on the story on the 
ooked at the future of 3-D TV. 