If you ever wanted to know what a day was like at your local TV news station, R. Neal has your fix. In short, there’s a lot that goes on, even on the most mundane of news days.
Unfortunately (for them) I generally don’t find the content of local news all that interesting, so I rarely watch.
Mr. Neal notes how young many people at the station are. With that kind of hectic work day, I don’t think this is too mysterious. I know someone who used to be a reporter at one of the station. He said he left the business because he was getting too “old” to do that kind of thing. Apparently, running all over the place and doing stories in the middle of the night doesn’t go so well with middle age and family life.
Mr. Neal also points out the expense of such an operation. Recently, I was hanging around a remote live telecast at our church. Someone told me that just one camera/stand combination cost $100,000. If true, that illustrates how many bucks go into TV broadcasting.