A good second day

First live experience today. I'm not certified yet so my reporter (backwords from most times) set up the stuff himself, because he was the nightside photgrapher before I got here. It was a good day, story from the courthouse, started at 4, not done intime to get the video or bites on at 5 so just the info and a graphic and then we went live with video and 2 sound bites at 6.

Interestingly enough this guy is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and ran a stop sign killing 4 and badly injuring another about a year ago..he got off on negligent something or other, I don't think it was homicide even, but like endangerment or something and an assult charge for the 5th person who lived. The judge decided to make his sentence concurent instead of consecutive...something like a year for each death and 6 mo for the injured...since he's been in jail for about a year that means that he has another 6 months left to go and then some probation. Needless to say the families weren't very happy and this one lady was ranting about the mexicans...anyway I wish we'd have been able to work some of that angle on it, but just no time.

Once I got back to the station helped the promo guy on some new stuff that he's working on, shot some video for him. Then helped get some video together for the 10pm producer because she is actually doing the morning show for Friday, covering for someone who's sick.

THEN I went to the control room for the 10 o'clock show! Since I've been in a control room for the past 2 years and now haven't in about 2 weeks, it was nice to get back in there, even if only to overlook things.

I have tomorrow and Sat off (my weekend) so I'll be using this first one to head back home to Tuscaloosa, Sunday will bring another new adventure...I'm really enjoying WAAY and Huntsville. Almost all the apprehension is gone and I'm pretty settled in, save several boxes...I could easily see calling this home, actually.