Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/28/07 19:49

Ed Mullen wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> Ed Mullen wrote:
>
>>> "Farm, Home and Garden" might have been pretty low-brow fare but,
>>> dammit! I framed those shots just great! ;-)
>>
>> :) My first paid day in TV was as a Master Control Director for a PBS
>> affiliate, being in at six AM or something, on some days, which was
>> horrible in winter. I've seen more Sesame Street than you and four of
>> your friends combined, because I put them on the air. :)
>
> I doubt it! :-) My stint was at the PBS affiliate at Penn State U.,
> WPSX-TV. We called them "Duty Directors" and I did that for a brief
> while. But there was also so much down time between production that we
> spent a lot of time just watching the network feeds of shows we were
> recording for later broadcast. so, yeah, lots of Sesame St. and

Did you do sneakernet? Going down to the bus station for programs
coming to you on 2" tape? :)

> Electric Co. The most disconcerting experience was one morning about 7

And the ever popular...

Come on and zoom zoom zoom-a zoom.

> AM as I sat at the production-control audio console, nursing my first
> cup of coffee after a /very/ late night, I glanced up at the 20" Conrac
> network monitor to view a Cesarean section being performed, close ups
> and all. It did /nothing/ to help the hangover.

Ugh. I'll bet not. An eye-opener, though. :)

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