A Day in the Life

I produced team D this week, and as fellow producer Jon Erwin mentioned in his blog, there was no clear cut lead story for the day. So the strategy I went with was to load the top half of the newscast with stories involving travel and gas prices that tie into the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. One involved airport security, another one President Bush opening up military airspace, and a story about AAA and gas prices increasing. The copy stories we had were two natural disaters- both back to back- about the Chilean earthquakes and the cyclone in Bangladesh.

I thought that the rundown flowed very nice once I heard the newscast being put out in studio. As my second time producing, my goal this time was to not cut any stories, and we were able to do that. Our A block went very smooth, and we were only ten seconds heavy going into the break, which forced us only to make a few adjustments in B block. We hit the post at 5:59 just in time! I was very happy with the newscast, the wraps my reporters Amy and Lara produced, and of course the job Katie did. She was my anchor last time I produced, so this time we knew exactly what we were doing. At this point in the semester, the newscasts are becoming much less stressfull, almost routine. Just another day in the life.