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This morning’s ride powered by four hours of sleep and nineties tunes. It was air-cooled by 53° temps and accompanied by this guy:
And this morning we were in the studio shooting a morning show. Well, the students were in the studio. I sat in the back of the control room watching them through a monitor:
And here’s a show from last night, when we were so much younger:
And possibly more awake.
This is that picture-of-a-picture thing, a bit hastily done:
Last week we had a little event in the building where they officially named the studio’s control room after an old IU graduate. He went out into television, had a good start to his career, did graduate school, went back into the news business. And then he’d ultimately go on to help build a few of the stations you might see on cable today. Ed Spray became a successful television executive, a president of Scripps and remains a nice and unassuming gentleman. So he and his family and a few friends were on campus for the event.
Someone accidentally left behind a few photographs. And the pictures made it into an envelope which made it to my hands today on the way back to the rightful owner. And I wanted to share a quick glimpse of the old gear.
This is what the new stuff looks like, a fraction of the weight, a lot more ability.
Wouldn’t it be great if people worked like technology does in that respect? Knowing more, weighing less?
My television station students held an organizational meeting tonight. This was the news division:
There was simultaneously a production meeting going on elsewhere. There will be a sports meeting and then a creative pitch meeting come up soon, too. For a small organization it sometimes seems rather big. Their first shows head into the studio next week, by the way.
Tonight, though, there were meetings after a full day. And then I really wanted a hamburger. I really wanted a hamburger. So I tried the new Red Robin. (Yummm.)
The burger was fine. The french fries were few. But it was late into their night and I am sure the kitchen was ready to close. Around the corner from my table, though, was a cool sign:
When in doubt, make a joke about the salad, and then order something else.
There’s just something about today that makes it feel like Friday. Maybe it is that there is a three-day weekend ahead. Maybe because there is football tonight. There’s just something in the air to make it feel like today is the getaway day.
Maybe it is the little informal ceremony we had today. The Media School did a very low key thank you for Ed Spray. He’s an IU alum that has just had our television control room named in his honor. The studio is named after his classmate, Ken Beckley, who became quite successful on camera. Spray became a star off screen, and in media administration – Emmys in Chicago, management in Los Angeles, co-creator of HGTV and president of the Scripps Networks. Lovely gentleman, as unassuming as could be.
That’s the dean and Spray, on the left, in the control room. We decided that while there is a strict no food or drinks policy in the room, his name is on the door, so what can we do about it if he brings in a water bottle?
And then, this evening, I turned on the big screen, which usually shows off six different channels, to just the one for the big game. Thursday night football in 25-foot by 12-foot glory:
So, yeah, it seems like the weekend is already here.
But, then, there is always tomorrow.
I don’t mean to pile on to anyone’s circumstance. If you aren’t there and you don’t know, then it is about the farthest thing from walking a mile in someone else’s shoes as possible. So I don’t want to speculate, because there was, perhaps, a legitimate concern or distraction of some sort at play here. And not knowing the story, I’d just be making one up and doing a disservice, perhaps even an injustice, to another person. I want to be mindful of that.
Besides, I’m hard pressed to imagine the sequence of events that would lead to me forgetting my belt in a public restroom:
But I hope it makes it back to its rightful owner eventually.
Last Thursday, before we produced our first live television broadcast of the school year, I gave four guys a crash course in podcast production. And then, on Friday morning I gave them a glimpse into audio editing. And now they have a show. Here is their first episode:
PODCAST: @ChronicHoosier & @ByTeddyBailey join the #iufb crew for Part One of the two-part Ohio State MegaPodcast.https://t.co/1IEyeBMeuo
— IDS Sports (@ids_sports) August 31, 2017
Not bad for a bunch of print students, I think. It’s all there, if they but seize the initiative. It is so cool when they seize the initiative.
Meanwhile, in Houston:
God bless whoever was in this Spider-Man suit making the kids smile at the convention center pic.twitter.com/urVxrUrcfc
— EL FOOSAY (@SheHatesJacoby) August 30, 2017
That is a friendly neighborhood Spiderman, indeed.
