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During my time in television news, I worked at one station that was sold twice during my tenure, so that was three different owners and I served under 4 different news directors. Each had their own style, and for some of them their style was to have none. Some you would describe as you “worked for” [...]

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Lavalamps seem to have been around forever, but are seeing a resurgence in popularity. (2 of my kids bugged us to buy them for them, and they succeeded). They have popped up in photos of recording studios. I even saw one inserted into a diagram of a recording studio layout. Funny. [...]

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Focus.
I’m going to go back in history to make a point. As many of you know I spent a good number of years as a television news reporter, this is from those days.
There was a train derailment in Taylor, PA, officials had evacuated much of the area and the command center was at a firehouse [...]

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I have a mountain of 3/4″ videotape from my days in TV News that I keep saying I will go thru, save the good stuff to DVD and chuck the tapes. But with a finicky VTR that hasn’t happened. What did happen was I found a VHS tape that was a demo of sorts from [...]

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One of the people I reconnected with at the WYOU TV22 reunion was Matt Beekman, co-founder of Jump Motion. He and I worked at the same station at different times. He arrived shortly after I left at the end of 1988. We did meet a couple times when I went back for visits. You have [...]

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