LIVE TV DEBUT!!

The video is posted below, but you should read this first…or not. 

I have been interning at WCBI since January of 2010.  Most times, I wake up at 3 in the morning (yes, apparently that hour does exist) to be there around 4 to prepare for the morning show with meteorologist Jason Dunning who does the show from 5-7. (Yes, most of this is before the sun rises.)   WCBI has been allowing me to record webcasts (which, if you’re reading this, you’ve most likely seen before), but to culminate my semester there, the news director allowed me to go LIVE, and do a full-length weathercast for the noon show–WCBI Midday!

I really wasn’t nervous.  You just can’t think about what you’re saying being broadcast to thousands of households stretching to the Mississippi/Tennesse border, on over to the Mississippi River, and portions of Western Alabama.  (Wow, now that I see that written out, I can’t believe I did that yesterday. Ha.)  Looking back at this, there are plenty of things I wish I would have done/said differently.  But hey, for the first time on LIVE TV, and with it going out to thousands of people and knowing MANY friends and family were watching, I concluded it will not be perfect the first time.  (Too bad I am a perfectionist.)  

I’ll be storm chasing in the Great Plains the rest of May (yes, I am praying for severe weather!) and at the coast the first week of June for my older sister’s wedding, but I’ll be back at WCBI some in June and July as well as next school year.  Be on the look-out for me as I have been promoted to fill-in meteorologist!  The news director and general manager were both pleased with the show.  I look forward to what I will be producing this time next year! 

 

Click the pictures below to enlarge!  Oh, and my tie is NOT pink. 

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