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how many of you are shooting xmas lights this year? there was rumor around the station that this yearly test of a photogs patience would be canceled. but alas, some industrious sales geek sold the idea to a client. tonight the merriment begins as we get our assigned, less than glowing, light...

pulled another live shot out of the ole poop-shoot friday night. had to do a little creative engineering to make it happen. it involved a multi-tool, a monitor and a reporter's note-pad. read all about it on the blog below. but that begs the question, what other creative engineering feats...

just heard a great line from one of our producers. actual quote, "i don't want a numbers story on the budget."

i just spent two days with rita. my sat truck will never be the same. we were not all that excited about driving up rita's ass-end. the eye was already on land, but as we approached lafayette, it was clear rita still packed a big punch. she threw my ford econoline van with all its fancy...

phone rings aroun 10:30 a.m. "there's a cat stuck in the drain at the drug store! can ya'll get her out?" "i need a photog and a live truck now! a cat is stuck in a drain! what are you doing? whatever it is, drop it! we've got a story about a cat!" so i followed two schmoes from the city...

our nightside deskie just brought in a book that has the photogs in stitches. her mom is a librarian, and was cleaning out the old books section. it's a kids book written in 1984, and it's a stroll down memory lane: old 3/4 gear, tk's, ky-2000's, ikes. bad clothes, worse hair, and a wide...

monday two transvestites try to carjack a real woman at a daycare center with -- get this -- a steak knife. they were arrested an hour later at a crack house. the perp walk was quite entertaining. when they saw the cameras, they covered their faces and one shouted in his best flaming gay voice...

Here's the low-down. 4:55pm I'm told my 6pm vo/sot is now a pkg. -- only problem is I've got a 6pm live shot with a 300ft cable run that I am in the process of leaving for. I'm handed the script, and try to explain to the reporter, desk, and EP (who is standing clear across the newsroom) that...

he was just named news director at wbrz in baton rouge. what do we have to look forward to?

i heard the chief photog, assignment editor, and e.p. all quit to go across town. i know steve is a good guy, and scott livingston has a great rep as n.d. so what gives?

what strange rituals do you perform to encourage spot news to break on slow news days? we had a producer who would whoop like an indian and dance around her desk to ask the news gods to bless us with multi-car accidents, double homicides, lynchings, or drive-by yellings on really slow days. it...