Nothing Like Live TV
A gig landed me at WMHT to run camera with my local PBS crew and with best-selling author and NBC chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman last week. She was a pleasure to work with surprising me with her tv acumen and clear speaking doc-talk. Some of you might remember her on ABC Good Morning America for 17 years talking about controversial subjects like Thimerosal in vaccines and autism. She's reported on medical topics affecting children, men and women and has traveled the world extensively. Now she's using PBS to push healthy conversations in her series of tapes and books and social networking site called Be Well. No topic is taboo from depression to cancer to reproductive issues to sex and relationships.
The phones rang off the hook during the live taping of the show. As well, it was entertaining to watch the crew keep up with a national live broadcast on PBS. Live TV is still exciting when it's done right. Might you been watching?
posted by Sonja Stark of PilotGirl™ @ 10:08 AM
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Years ago at the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, I worked on a nature show called "Hodgepodge Lodge" shot live every afternoon. I loved it.
Part of the Wikipedia entry on it:
"Hodgepodge Lodge.....featured the quiet Miss Jean introducing elementary age children to wild animals and other nature topics (e.g. trees) in a calm setting around the namesake lodge.
The host introduced the wonders of nature to East-Coast audiences, which included inner-city children, many of whom had never seen a garden or an animal in a setting other than a zoo. Miss Jean would do everything from opening up a pine cone and exploring its depths (which might have led to the discovery of an interesting beetle or worm), to examining the habitat of a hedgehog or a red fox."
The lodge was an actual lodge, not a set, placed in a field next to the MPB center, from which we ran all the cables.
Since it was live TV, it never got stale the way a feature film can with perfection achieved by take after take after take.
Being well is critically important to us as a nation. I'll make a point of learning more about Dr. Snyderman.
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