When I got here smilin’ Joe Canter was a freshman. He was probably born good at this, but he’s gotten better at it. And someone here, no one seems to remember who now, has given him a franchise he can carry for years: Banter With Canter.
This was the last Banter With Canter on the last show of his college career. He’s graduating in a few days. It’s been a pleasure to work with him, to watch him grow and develop a very steady confidence. Plus, he’s just an all around pleasant guy. Some newsroom is going to get a good one with him.
We've worked with him for four years, but tonight marks @IUSTV's final Banter with Canter. @allison_rose14 and @Kenli_Johnson hosted @JoeCanter574's last @iustvnews hit. He's graduating and going on the job market.
Congratulations, thanks and best of luck to you, my friend. pic.twitter.com/wgjfqwwecI
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) December 11, 2019
And of course we took the “So I can say I knew him when” photo.
He told us tonight — it is a bit of a tradition now, I guess, sharing this news with the crew at our last productions — the stations he’s been interviewing with recently. It is exciting to see the notice our crew gets right out of the gate. I’m eager to see where he lands. Of course you can follow people pretty closely these days, but there will come a day, in two or four years, when he will make a market change. And maybe then, or in the year or two after that, he’ll make a big market change. And I’m excited to see what that’s like for him.
Speaking of sports, which is what Joe does, my old be-ready-at-every-moment anecdote around here used to be about sports, but now it is about weather. The old story was that the sports guy didn’t turn up one night. He’d taken ill, apparently, and we only realized this at the last minute. So a producer stepped in. And she’s was, and remains, one of these people that does everything well. She wasn’t a close follower of sports, she said, but you wouldn’t know it by how she just did the job that night. And they chose her to fill-in because she was awesome anyway, but also because she was camera-ready. It’s a good story. (And today, she is a producer in a top 35-market, which is a nice place to land in your second job still freshly out of school.)
Well now I can update that story to weather. My friend Charlee is a pop culture show host, but when the student who is actually training to be a meteorologist couldn’t make it this evening, Charlee stepped in. And, being another one of these people that does everything well, she also drilled it.
She won’t be a meteorologist anytime soon — that takes some science and know how — but if she isn’t updating her LinkedIn account this week and figuring out how to parlay that into a job interview anecdote then I didn’t sell her hard enough on how she should be updating her LinkedIn account and figuring out how to parlay that into a job interview anecdote.
And with that, the calendar year and another semester of television wraps. A tweet-sized summary:
Tonight, we wrapped up @IUSTV's fall semester.
Together, the sports, news and entertainment divisions produced 60+ episodes of original programming, provided continuous coverage of the 36-hour @IUDM, won awards and increased viewership by 10 percent.#StudentMediaIsAwesome pic.twitter.com/6LiD2Be8mQ
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) December 11, 2019
More details fleshing out the numbers at some later date.
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