It was fun to visit with students from the Robert Morgan School’s video production class last week. It’s fun to see the excitement and answer great questions about the TV News business. Thanks, everyone. Hope you had a great visit.
Well, I’ve survived. The Bucs have won the Super Bowl and it comes on the heels of the Rays making the World Series and the Lightning winning the Stanley Cup. Tampa has been on fire lately. You could consider it Title Town, USA at this point. Before it was just Tampa. Now it’s synonymous with the best sports and and the some of the most rapid population growth in the country. Covering...
Today was quite a day for the country. We watched as now former President Donald Trump boarded Marine One to depart the White House for the last time. We watched as Joe Biden became President Biden. We watched as the first woman – the first black woman – was sworn in as Vice President. Kamala Harris has changed history. This isn’t a political post. I won’t take sides. But...
I run the office lottery pool. And things are hot right now. Not that we’re winning anything, but there’s a great sense of morale in the newsroom for those playing the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries. If we were to hit either, we’d have $750M to distribute. Usually the office pool isn’t on the radar unless a jackpot is worth north of $300M. It’s definitely...
As I sit here in the studio watching national coverage of the chaos at the nation’s Capitol, I find it hard to put into words what I’m seeing. During big events, national news will go ‘wall to wall’ meaning they take over coverage and local affiliates like us take a back seat unless a piece of local coverage is important enough to take back the coverage. This is obviously...