Election Primaries!!!

In this post: elections, Decatur, Morgan County Sheriff, ABC 33/40 WBMA, Chris Tatum, Jason Gaston

yea for elections!! not really

So Justin and I took one of the live trucks (just in case), a beta camera from promotions (because they use beta sx over at the Decatur bureau) and headed down the road. First stop was in Hartselle because that's where one of our morgan county sheriff candidates was holding party, then to Decatur, where the other was. Put it together at the Decatur news room and fed it back. Due to some miscommunication we didn't actually go live at 5...I was told to turn the transmitter off so that they could get another feed and never got the word (and phones were busy) to turn back on...we killed the 6 though and went back out to both places for updates and killed the 10 (or actually the 9:40 to 10:45 is what it amounted to).

While putting together and while waiting for our live shot we were watching different coverages (mostly us and 33/40, because we could actually get them on rabbit ears on the TV in decatur!) Well at one point in time we were on a shot of Riley and none other than Chris Tatum jumps in front of the camera and gives a thunbs up (to hearing IFB??) before we take the shot down (that was also during the 5)...wow, yeah 5 had a few bumps but killed it at 6 and 10. And to do everything we did with 1/3 of the staff of the other Huntsville stations was amazing...Seriously we looked really good. I loved the intro election coverage bump that Jason in promotions made too...really nice.

The other funny thing of the night...while watching 33/40 Jason Gaston was doing a live shot at Riley's party and in the middle..in the right middle of sentance he goes, "there's Riley, Hey Mr. Riley would you come over here"..and he actually got an interview LIVE that way...wow good stuff

Fun night glad it's over though