What a Great Day!!

In this post: terrorism, Old McDonald's Petting Zoo, homeland security, my video gone national, national news spending $$

I got a call...can I come in now? Um sure..I end up in an hour early...going to Scottsboro again!!! Well actually not quite as far..Woodville..ABC National wants the video that we will be getting there, and possibly CNN...um ok well that's worth it to go in early right? Ironic due to yesterday's post...

So the story, as I learned on the way down 72, was a list that the federal gov had of potential terrorist targets. The NYTimes had somehow got ahold of this list (as we later found out an OLD list) that had some really obsurd places on it.

Apparently the federal gov, after 9-11 with the start of homeland security, had all the local gov's compile lists of gathering places and events in thier area (that could be potential targets). They apparently gave 2 weeks and so once the state got the list they ust passed it on without looking through or editing out...AL ended up with over 800 events and places including a flee market and...yes Old McDonald's Petting Zoo in Woodville :)

So since ABC wanted our video for world news tonight they not only paid for thier sat time for us to feed raw at 3:15 but also 15 minutes around 4, 5, and 6 for us to use...as such we went live there at the zoo for those times with Live Star.

I had Eric record World News Tonight and in the 2-3 minutes of of the story I had one shot in the tease the block before (it was top of B), and 4 shots in the actual package (along with 6-7 seconds of an interview with the owner).
:) so whatever they did a good job though..we did too..I loved the pak that we did for 10!! it was live VOBB's the rest of the shows..just not enough time.

Anyway I thought it intersting that ABC would pay thousands of dollars for sat. time to use less that 20 seconds of video that they got from us! And they did the same thing for a station in Indian and one other too. WOW And then paid people to put it together an anchor...and that's only 5 minutes of the show..thousands of dollars to put on 30 minutes of national news...wow!!