I heard we were supposed to get a bunch of snowflakes today.
They started a little later than they said but they sure came!
8:30ish am
10:00ish am
11:15ish am
12:15ish pm
1:30ish pm
3:00ish pm
4:00ish pm
4:45ish pm
5:30ish pm
7:30ish pm
It's still flurrying at 8pm.
Photo via Bethel website and Brad Person
On another note Bethel is playing St. Thomas for the MIAC Championship on Saturday night at 7:30pm at Schoenecker Arena.
Hopefully you can at least listen to it. I'll be there, Dale got the go ahead from the St. Thomas SID, so that adds another night of activity to my life!
So otherwise, I've been doing Bethel and St. Thomas basketball research, trying to learn more about these two teams. St. Thomas has been #1 in DIII for about a month now-though we almost beat them there just a couple weeks ago so it'll hopefully be a great match up. If the Royals win they'll win the MIAC and get an automatic berth into the DIII National Playoffs for the first time since 2.28.1991 where they lost to Central College in Pella, Iowa 88-77.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Good ol Jim Calhoun
Mom, Dad did you see this? What do you two think?
I think this is great. Not often do I agree with monetary things and sports but I have no problem with Coach Calhoun ripping into this reporter. It's great!
That reporters questioning makes me want to buy more UConn Athletics stuff and donate to Calhoun himself.
Here's the link of the questioning and the reaming.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3925051
Calhoun Video
I think this is great. Not often do I agree with monetary things and sports but I have no problem with Coach Calhoun ripping into this reporter. It's great!
That reporters questioning makes me want to buy more UConn Athletics stuff and donate to Calhoun himself.
Here's the link of the questioning and the reaming.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3925051
Calhoun Video
Monday, February 9, 2009
The Weekend Beat
Covering the weekend of activity.
Chris came in town for a little bit of work and a little bit of play. We hung out for dinner at Old Chicago Thursday night before he did some recruiting for Kanakuk.
We also got together here Friday night for a night of card playing and shenanigans. Quite fun.
The real deal happened when Chris ran the 400 meters in the Bethel U Invite. He actually ran pretty well finishing in 53.99 seconds.
Nick and I did the TV broadcast for the meet combining with CTV15. It was a learning experience. Man, broadcasting track is a long event.
Here are a few thoughts.
1. Tape field events and let them get a chunk of time in before we start airing them. We were cutting way too much-back and forth-between field events and running and caught some really dumb stuff.
2. Keep the camera's off the anchors except for strategic times. We'll open the broadcast and we'll close the broadcast with 2 other insertions of "us" on camera. Otherwise-find shots-any shots to keep us off camera. It was bad how much we were on camera.
3. Learn more and more and more-and them some about track broadcasts. Explain it like the viewer is dumb. Get back stories-get old PR's. Know old records. Not that we didn't-just know more.
4. Take fake commercial breaks for easier post-production. Since you're just tape delaying the ariing of field events you can intro an event. Like this. Cut to black. Then open with "We're just getting set for the men's 800 meter finals. Stop taping and wait for race to begin. Broadcast the race and diagnose tactics, speed of runners, PR's, records, participants etc. Then close it out. "That was the men's 800 meter finals here at the Bethel University Invite." Cut to black.
Repeat for each event creathing a sort of parenthetical effect before and after each specific event.
Sorry, this isn't very interesting for you. It's serving as a reference for what I should do next time.
On to better things.
Went to the DMV today and still can't get plates changed from WI to MN. I can not stand the DMV. No matter if you think you have everything you needed-and $10,000 to bribe someone you'd still would have forgotten something or need some other form filled, faxed, notarized, dated on the third tuesday of an odd month in an even year at an even hour with a double digit odd time and ending with a mininum of 14 seconds but no more than 18 seconds.
Yeah, it's that hard. Navigate this crap. MN DMV site. Though I don't offically know if it's a good site or not-I think it's horrible. Like the tech class at some St. Paul public school is running the website. It's bad.
Eric (and Em)
I just downloaded the Ted.com application for my Iphone so I can watch that anytime I want now. I believe you told me about that website.
The weekend is now over and I'm sitting here waiting to go to work.
Oh yeah, also-Katy and I joined LA Fitness. I've been running three times in the last week and shot a little hoop today. It's quite nice to have a facility to use. Though-we'll see how long I can afford it for me.
Chris came in town for a little bit of work and a little bit of play. We hung out for dinner at Old Chicago Thursday night before he did some recruiting for Kanakuk.
We also got together here Friday night for a night of card playing and shenanigans. Quite fun.
The real deal happened when Chris ran the 400 meters in the Bethel U Invite. He actually ran pretty well finishing in 53.99 seconds.
Nick and I did the TV broadcast for the meet combining with CTV15. It was a learning experience. Man, broadcasting track is a long event.
Here are a few thoughts.
1. Tape field events and let them get a chunk of time in before we start airing them. We were cutting way too much-back and forth-between field events and running and caught some really dumb stuff.
2. Keep the camera's off the anchors except for strategic times. We'll open the broadcast and we'll close the broadcast with 2 other insertions of "us" on camera. Otherwise-find shots-any shots to keep us off camera. It was bad how much we were on camera.
3. Learn more and more and more-and them some about track broadcasts. Explain it like the viewer is dumb. Get back stories-get old PR's. Know old records. Not that we didn't-just know more.
4. Take fake commercial breaks for easier post-production. Since you're just tape delaying the ariing of field events you can intro an event. Like this. Cut to black. Then open with "We're just getting set for the men's 800 meter finals. Stop taping and wait for race to begin. Broadcast the race and diagnose tactics, speed of runners, PR's, records, participants etc. Then close it out. "That was the men's 800 meter finals here at the Bethel University Invite." Cut to black.
Repeat for each event creathing a sort of parenthetical effect before and after each specific event.
Sorry, this isn't very interesting for you. It's serving as a reference for what I should do next time.
On to better things.
Went to the DMV today and still can't get plates changed from WI to MN. I can not stand the DMV. No matter if you think you have everything you needed-and $10,000 to bribe someone you'd still would have forgotten something or need some other form filled, faxed, notarized, dated on the third tuesday of an odd month in an even year at an even hour with a double digit odd time and ending with a mininum of 14 seconds but no more than 18 seconds.
Yeah, it's that hard. Navigate this crap. MN DMV site. Though I don't offically know if it's a good site or not-I think it's horrible. Like the tech class at some St. Paul public school is running the website. It's bad.
Eric (and Em)
I just downloaded the Ted.com application for my Iphone so I can watch that anytime I want now. I believe you told me about that website.
The weekend is now over and I'm sitting here waiting to go to work.
Oh yeah, also-Katy and I joined LA Fitness. I've been running three times in the last week and shot a little hoop today. It's quite nice to have a facility to use. Though-we'll see how long I can afford it for me.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Surprisng Response
It seems as if my email might have been at least read.
Quite surprising that it was even passed on past the generic news@kare11.com email address.
Email from Mike Pomeranz.
Thank you for your feedback. I agree. It was a judgment call...and I agree it was right on the line.
I appreciate your concerns and I'll pass it along to our producer.
Again, thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching.
-best,
Mike
Mike Pomeranz
KARE 11 News
8811 Olson Memorial Highway
Minneapolis, MN 55427
763-797-7336
mpomeranz@kare11.com
Thoughts I won't email Mike back with...
Now Mike, I didn't think that your making light of the story was that bad. Though it wasn't necessary, in the end my concern was airing a pointless story on a cussing Christian Bale in the first place. It just didn't seem to fit. Could I have understood your placement more if I took a look at your rundown? Sure but it's the fact that it made our mid-west prime time news cast and let's just say I'm about 92% going to guess that it won't even make TMZ and it's their job to broadcast that crap.
Here's a counter point. Though I think sometimes you guys run alot of garbage during the half hour you at least get me chatting with a good friend of mine-Paul-about the content of your broadcast and you still do get our viewership. So if that's all you need (viewership) you win, but if you ever had a passion and a desire to impact your viewers for the better you definitely lost.
So, nice to chat with you Mike. :) Tell your producers, directors and executives that if you can not fill 30, 60 or 90 minutes of newsworthy stories in a day then tell them you'd prefer to cut the time down to 30 at all times. Then, possibly you could create more features and newsworthy stories we'd all like to watch!
Quite surprising that it was even passed on past the generic news@kare11.com email address.
Email from Mike Pomeranz.
Thank you for your feedback. I agree. It was a judgment call...and I agree it was right on the line.
I appreciate your concerns and I'll pass it along to our producer.
Again, thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching.
-best,
Mike
Mike Pomeranz
KARE 11 News
8811 Olson Memorial Highway
Minneapolis, MN 55427
763-797-7336
mpomeranz@kare11.com
Thoughts I won't email Mike back with...
Now Mike, I didn't think that your making light of the story was that bad. Though it wasn't necessary, in the end my concern was airing a pointless story on a cussing Christian Bale in the first place. It just didn't seem to fit. Could I have understood your placement more if I took a look at your rundown? Sure but it's the fact that it made our mid-west prime time news cast and let's just say I'm about 92% going to guess that it won't even make TMZ and it's their job to broadcast that crap.
Here's a counter point. Though I think sometimes you guys run alot of garbage during the half hour you at least get me chatting with a good friend of mine-Paul-about the content of your broadcast and you still do get our viewership. So if that's all you need (viewership) you win, but if you ever had a passion and a desire to impact your viewers for the better you definitely lost.
So, nice to chat with you Mike. :) Tell your producers, directors and executives that if you can not fill 30, 60 or 90 minutes of newsworthy stories in a day then tell them you'd prefer to cut the time down to 30 at all times. Then, possibly you could create more features and newsworthy stories we'd all like to watch!
News Beliefs turned into action
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I happened to be watching KARE-11 just a minute ago (5:25pm) while waiting for NBC's national news to begin.
While watching you aired a story on Christian Bale's tirade on a movie set. The content of that story was in fact a tirade-you had that half correct. However, half of the content was also bleeped out as he was cussing a gentleman out.
As a college graduate in media communication with the intent of going into the media I struggle with how this story was newsworthy or even productive for anyone in society.
I know you have time to fill on air-too much time to fill-where you have to reach for stories but this one served no benefit for anyone watching and was completely not needed.
And then at the end of the broadcast your three anchors go and make light of it while your team behind the scenes bleeped non-nonsensically-making light of your actual chosen news story.
The Christian Bale story was completely not needed.
I thank you for your time.
Joel Dischinger
jrdisch@yahoo.com
Here's the video of them horsing around like a non-market 15 (ish) station. Horrible! Be patient watching the minute of video. It's one schmuck walking through the picture before a forced reaction from Mike Pomeranz and Diana Pierce. Then they do it again going out of the next break and then they pull out the bleeper machine and make a joke about it.
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I happened to be watching KARE-11 just a minute ago (5:25pm) while waiting for NBC's national news to begin.
While watching you aired a story on Christian Bale's tirade on a movie set. The content of that story was in fact a tirade-you had that half correct. However, half of the content was also bleeped out as he was cussing a gentleman out.
As a college graduate in media communication with the intent of going into the media I struggle with how this story was newsworthy or even productive for anyone in society.
I know you have time to fill on air-too much time to fill-where you have to reach for stories but this one served no benefit for anyone watching and was completely not needed.
And then at the end of the broadcast your three anchors go and make light of it while your team behind the scenes bleeped non-nonsensically-making light of your actual chosen news story.
The Christian Bale story was completely not needed.
I thank you for your time.
Joel Dischinger
jrdisch@yahoo.com
Here's the video of them horsing around like a non-market 15 (ish) station. Horrible! Be patient watching the minute of video. It's one schmuck walking through the picture before a forced reaction from Mike Pomeranz and Diana Pierce. Then they do it again going out of the next break and then they pull out the bleeper machine and make a joke about it.
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