I should really be asleep considering I start physical therapy in about seven hours for a bulging disc in my back. However, I'll give you a quick recap before I catch a few winks. Today was something to witness!
I spent the day down in Montgomery at Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley's headquarters for the Alabama primary elections. Let me get this out of the way: I was assigned to be there, so this is NOT my endorsement. I'm a reporter, so I have to be unbiased in my professional realm. :-)
You want to see comprehensive coverage, teamwork and overall excellence in covering state elections? You should have seen the job we all pulled off behind the cameras today.
Liz was at Gov. Riley's camp, I was at Baxley's HQ, we had a crew up in Birmingham for "The Don," and in Gadsden for Roy Moore. Here's where the magic happened: We had three different stations represented from across Alabama. All were doing live shots in every show we had on, plus a wall-to-wall election special on one of them for several hours.
It was us (WTVM), WSFA in Montgomery and WAFF out of Huntsville. We're all one big happy Raycom Media family, and this was our first time working in this type of situation. WSFA supplied the live truck, field producer and live camera operator at my site. WAFF provided a camera man to run around and get footage for everyone, and we all had reporters there (a special hello to Jeanie Powell again from WAFF! I got to work with her again for the first time in two years since UA).
It was absolutely incredible to watch all the prep and planning unfold into almost flawless coverage from all three stations. I didn't see the end result on my station, but the way everything clicked between us all at Baxley's HQ was awesome.
I know people harbor different feelings about their companies, but I knew I wanted to work at Raycom. I'm very proud I do, and tonight proved it. Buying WSFA was one of the smartest decisions the company made because they proved their skills tonight juggling the three stations.
On top of making all this work tonight, I finally got word on my contract. Color me happy! With that, I'm off to bed. Tonight proved again why I've been 90 percent happy with my job over the last two years.
Here's to at least two more!
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congrats!!! I didn't figure you'd have any trouble with another contract there...maybe in another year or two I'll be working with a compnay as great as Raycom...for now, at least I'm working with great people in a great city.
I have actually seen Jeanie on acouple times in flipping. Ran into Robin McGlaghn last week in Scottsboro and have seen Todd Wade (former VUA nightside photog) a couple times all of WAFF. Ironically enough I've also seen a former news director, Greg Privitt, whose reporting for WHTN
speaking from 1/6 of what did you yesterday for "your" station, you did great mr. parker, it looked fabulous!!
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