{"id":573891816,"date":"2019-12-10T22:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891816"},"modified":"2020-01-06T19:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:07:31","slug":"and-now-two-quick-television-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/and-now-two-quick-television-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"And now, two quick television stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got here smilin&#8217; Joe Canter was a freshman. He was probably born good at this, but he&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>This was the last Banter With Canter on the last show of his college career. He&#8217;s graduating in a few days. It&#8217;s been a pleasure to work with him, to watch him grow and develop a very steady confidence. Plus, he&#8217;s just an all around pleasant guy. Some newsroom is going to get a good one with him.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;ve worked with him for four years, but tonight marks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUSTV<\/a>&#39;s final Banter with Canter. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allison_rose14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@allison_rose14<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kenli_Johnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kenli_Johnson<\/a> hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeCanter574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeCanter574<\/a>&#39;s last <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iustvnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iustvnews<\/a> hit. He&#39;s graduating and going on the job market.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, thanks and best of luck to you, my friend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wgjfqwwecI\">pic.twitter.com\/wgjfqwwecI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1204552616564469763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And of course we took the &#8220;So I can say I knew him when&#8221; photo.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec19\/dec11.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He told us tonight &#8212; it is a bit of a tradition now, I guess, sharing this news with the crew at our last productions &#8212; the stations he&#8217;s been interviewing with recently. It is exciting to see the notice our crew gets right out of the gate. I&#8217;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&#8217;ll make a big market change. And I&#8217;m excited to see what that&#8217;s like for him.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t turn up one night. He&#8217;d taken ill, apparently, and we only realized this at the last minute. So a producer stepped in. And she&#8217;s was, and remains, one of these people that does everything well. She wasn&#8217;t a close follower of sports, she said, but you wouldn&#8217;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&#8217;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.)<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t make it this evening, Charlee stepped in. 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\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800 Last night @CHrubesky jumped in at the last second and CRUUUUUUUUSHED a weather segment for @iustvnews.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Kenny Smith<\/a> (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-12-11T16:19:08+00:00\">Dec 11, 2019 at 8:19am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She won&#8217;t be a meteorologist anytime soon &#8212; that takes some science and know how &#8212; but if she isn&#8217;t updating her LinkedIn account this week and figuring out how to parlay that into a job interview anecdote then I didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, the calendar year and another semester of television wraps. A tweet-sized summary:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, we wrapped up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUSTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUSTV<\/a>&#39;s fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the sports, news and entertainment divisions produced 60+ episodes of original programming, provided continuous coverage of the 36-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IUDM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IUDM<\/a>, won awards and increased viewership by 10 percent.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StudentMediaIsAwesome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StudentMediaIsAwesome<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LiD2Be8mQ\">pic.twitter.com\/6LiD2Be8mQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1204568308223270912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>More details fleshing out the numbers at some later date. <\/p>\n<p>More on <a TARGET=\"Blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/kennysmith\">Twitter<\/a> and please check me out on <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/\">Instagram<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got here smilin&#8217; Joe Canter was a freshman. He was probably born good at this, but he&#8217;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. 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