Hanging out with the ladies doing the hip and happening show:
You can watch the show right here. This is episode four, and we’re learning a lot in a hurry.
(They’re probably learning faster than I am.)
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Oct 16
We’re mass communicating here
I’ve shown you a bit of the television studio and control room that they’ve built in the new Media School building. I should also mention this fine little radio production booth:
It has windows on three sides, so it can be a fishbowl broadcast studio, and a podcast and production booth. There is an adjoining production booth on the other side of one of the windows. And still more of editing bays and production rooms being finished downstairs. This is one incredible facility IU has here. And they let me play with all the fancy toys in these rooms. It is a pretty charmed thing, really.
And tonight, we were back in the television studio. We do sports shows on Wednesday and Thursday. But on Tuesdays we do a news show and a pop culture, fashion, what’s happening kind of show. I’m sitting in a control room full of talented young people, and there’s plenty more talent in the studio next door:
Here’s that show now:
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Oct 16
He watched football … in church (there was praying)
We are here:
It is a chapel on a small college campus in north Georgia. Also, a football game was celebrated on the front lawn, just after the bride and groom drove away. Before that, however:
Yes, he was watching football during a wedding. That's what happens when you book a ceremony in the fall. #UTvsUGA pic.twitter.com/SJs5FbiDRZ
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) October 1, 2016
Some 10,000 people have seen that on Twitter and it got picked up by a couple of those re-write sites. Every once in a while you get one that really takes off …
Anyway, he was watching the Georgia – Tennessee game. The hail mary one way, hail mary the other way game. He was quite pleased with the outcome.
(Edit: The guy in the picture saw it. Hah! Thankfully he has a good sense of humor about it.)
After that, the reception was lovely:
The groom was one of The Yankee’s former students, and we saw some other former students and friends there as well. A fine time, as they say, was had by all.
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Sep 16
Well that happened in a hurry
I say this at least once a year, but maples are quitters:
And this is way too early for the first leaf to have turned and let go of the branch to find its way to the ground. I found it on the sidewalk outside of our building on campus this morning. I’m noting the date and time, should anything come of it.
Found this repop poster on the wall at lunch today. While I find it too early for the leaf turn, this is right on time.
Even if the poster is wrong — Game One was at Yankee Stadium — it is eerily right on time. Game One of the 1932 World Series was on September 28th. This happened 84 years and one day ago.
The Yankees won. Some 41,000 fans saw the Yankees take the lead with a Lou Gehrig, and then they really poured it on in the final three frames. Red Ruffing pitched a complete game, striking out 10 Cubs.
So that’s timing, for you.
On the 29th, in Game Two, the Yankees won 5-2 and Hall of Famer Lefty Gomez got the second win of the Series. That game took one hour and 46 minutes to complete, and is not the shortest on record. (That’d be an 85 minute contest in 1908.) Babe Ruth saw his last Yankee Stadium World Series game. Ruth’s supposed called shot took place in the third game, in Chicago.
Through all of this, the Cubs wouldn’t hold a lead for more than a half-inning until Game Four, but even that couldn’t stand up. They got swept. But look at the Cubbies now, right?
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Sep 16
Now open for bizy-ness
Today was the official grand opening of Franklin Hall. The president of the university spoke. Everyone wore their regalia. They conferred an honorary degree upon Fox broadcaster and IU alumnus Joe Buck. We put him on the big screen:
Buck is a funny guy, and thoughtful and was highly complimentary of the facility they’ve put together here. He should be. The place is nice. He said, and I’ll surely steal his line and quote him later, that he works in all the best studios in New York and L.A. and the broadcast setup here is as nice as any place he goes. He’s not wrong. They’ve built something really promising here. And, now, a quick glimpse of the studio that I shot today before we welcomed the open house tours:
This is Ken Beckley:
He is a journalism grad. He became a successful anchor in Indianapolis and then a business executive and now a well-regarded author. Very nice man. He and his wife, Audrey, who is also an IU grad, donated to the renovation of Franklin Hall and now the studio carries their name. This is the first time, I believe, that Mr. Beckley had seen the finished product. He was quite pleased. A friend of his asked him to go stand at the green screen. He said he never had before. But he enjoyed it. Even the old pros enjoy the novelty of the green screen.
And then, after the open house, and after I got to demonstrate the virtual reality set up in the video game lab downstairs — yes, we have all of that here, too, and it is equally incredible — we got to start doing some production training with the IUS-TV crew:
It was 6:30 on a Tuesday night and they walked in and stayed for about 90 minutes. People in student media can be some kind of devoted. That never fails to impress me.
