Mnkeeboy

So I get up at 4:30 this Morning. Get all dressed up and jump on the motorcycle, drive 45 minutes in the cold (in tights lol) to get to an NBC News shoot for the fair this weekend.

Now I do these for free, just to help advertise the fair. I'm not even getting a cup of coffee out of this deal right?

So we get all set up and the Lady talking head comes out and "deigns" us with her most important self, like less than a minute before airtime, does a half assed "Hi how are you" and we start the bit. She talks to the juggler for a second then skims right over my part.

Says "and we have a sword swallower here, Oh what? That's stupid, I can't watch that." and moves along to the kid with the cow hat on. On live TV.

Dissed and dismissed. Because this ijjit can't be bothered with it.

All that time and energy, freezing my ass off in tights on a motorcycle at 5am, all for nothing. The PR people already sent me an apology e-mail, which was cool, but it's still not right.

I hate when people get the Hollywood attitude and small time talking heads are some of the worst.

Sorry Just needed to vent.

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Sansarya

name and shame her, Mnkeeboy, we'll all email her and complain that WE wanted to watch that

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Richie Waves

I'd of called her a cunt on live TV!

ruined the day? yes

had your fun? yes

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My lastfm

Oooh, Betty! the cat did a shit in the hat

Siggy

3 cheers for small time news! Dude, they're like that the world over (and I'd know).. and the smaller the market they're in, the bigger their egos and ideas of their own importance and celebrity (a lil something I called 'delusions of adequacy' back in the day)

On the upside take comfort in this:

No matter how big a shit they were to you - they are an even BIGGER shit to the production crew every-single-day... With absolute abandon to the idea that these are the working schmucks that make sure they are on the idiot box, and try and make sure they don't make themselves look TOO stupid while doing it....

....and sometimes shit happens....just to remind them of that - at some time, at some point, SOMETHING will happen

Something might happen to that makeup reorder.. and they go on the air with cheeks that stand out in the camera like Ragetty Anne... Maybe they have a prop that's near and dear to them, that they overuse... like say... a laser pointer that someone has noticed runs on a lipo battery and has the 2 hours free time to rewire it so that it explodes like an illegal firework when they 'point' at the weather map....
Maybe when their little cherub comes in to show off her bit of ballet on the air the audio guy decides to pipe the ballet music into the studio, but put 'Angel of Harlem' out over the air as she jumps about totally out of time like the special olympics entrant in freestyles gymnastics...

Maybe they'll forget to tell them they came back from a break 5 seconds ago while they were badmouthing an important community figure...

...ya just don't know...

Hmmm? Have I done any of these things? oh no sir, no sir, not me sir, this is all hypothetical of course!

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And as it was in the beginning, so too shall it be in the end. That bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names.

Mnkeeboy

lol
That's exactly right though, the smaller the network/ show the bigger the egos.

Here's a link to the bit that aired, 10th Annual Fall Escondido Renaissance Faire | NBC San Diego

Now as soon as she starts to talk to me you'll hear a man's voice overdubbed. That was when she was saying "No, we're not doing that".

Then she goes on and that's it. Nothing.

Chip Midnight

Having spent most of my childhood hanging around a local NBC affiliate and having a father who was a weatherman I can say there is nothing inherently egomaniacal about local tv personalities. Most of the ones I knew were very good and kind people.

The worst and most insufferable egos I ever came up against in video production were corporate executives and business owners acting as their own on-camera talent, and by far the worst of all time was working on a shoot with Dennis Miller who despite the $40,000 paycheck he was getting for a one day shoot spent the entire time acting like the entire production was beneath him. He didn't like the brand of bottled water we bought so a PA had to go fetch him his preferred brand, and then he didn't like the gourmet food we had catered so another PA had to go fetch him his favorite sandwich.

He also couldn't EVER admit he'd fucked up a take.

"Uh, that was good Dennis, but there's no T at the end of Compaq."

"I didn't do that! I'm a professional."

"Would you like me to roll it back and show you? How about we just do another take instead."

*pissy* "Fine..."

"Okay, roll camera"

"Speed"

"And action"
"Congratulations on your purchase of a new CompaQ! computer..."

*facepalm*

Siggy

hahah dead on about the corporate types - early on in my career I had to deal with 'My PC Doctor' in Bakersfield... an utter TWAT..

But.. after working 12 years with NBC affiliates I can say, there were some good people.. some great folks.

There were however a LOT of fucking douchebags in local TV..

You were lucky - I had to deal with a bunch of overinflated twats who should have been praising their luck that a job existed where the qualifications are 'read and look pretty' because if they all jumped into the grand canyon, the mean point average IQ in the united states would have lept up 11 points.

Sansarya

/commented on the site

Chip Midnight

haha, well I was also just a kid and didn't have to work with them. They were always nice to me. They were old school. I think the local news scene changed a lot in the 80's and after and the whole thing became a lot more cutthroat. Most of these people came from radio and they weren't all angling for jobs in bigger markets.

Pol

Jesus, would somebody post a YouTube clip of Ron Burgundy from Anchorman already? The anticipation is killing me!