My day on the job.

Over the course of this semester, I have learned many things that I know will be a great asset to my future career as a sports broadcaster. My time spent at KOLD 13 News has been nothing but fun and the best learning experience available to me. These past few weeks have taught me a lot about deadlines, how you can easily be thrown into a situation you may not be familiar with or comfortable with, but will have to adapt to in order to make sure the job gets done right. This past Friday we had to go to two footballs games like usual, but these games were on the complete opposite side of town from one another. We got to both with enough time to film and record one quarter from each, getting about three or four usable highlights from each one. On the way back, my boss told me that I was going to need to help him out by editing the film, recording the right plays to put on the reel, and then put it into that night’s script. Needless to say I was pretty nervous. Every time in the past that I had done any editing or script work, someone had been there to tell me if I was doing it wrong, and to show me how to do it better. We were behind schedule and it just needed to be done, so it was my job for that night. As soon as we got back to the studio, my boss ran to the office to type up his script and get dressed to go on air, as I slowly and shakily made my way back to the edit bay. I looked at the computer, looming at me, taunting me, and frankly, scaring me. I didn’t have much time to lament my future task however, as right when I was about to sit down, or electronic director ran in and told me he needed me to input all the scores for the games before the show was over. I looked back at him and just said done. I looked back and realized I needed to hustle to get everything done. It’s amazing that when you’re faced with some pressure, how you can rise to the occasion and surprise yourself. I just took it a step at a time, remembering how my boss would do it and managed to get all of our plays into the server, and the script. After that I had to run him the copies of the script, and one copy to out producer for the night, and then it was finally time to hustle up and get all the scores on the website. I remembered how to do it from past times and it seemed like everything was going fine, until the last score wasn’t on my paper. Someone had forgotten to log the score down, and the show was almost over. I didn’t know what to do and it was going to take to long to track down the person that was at the game, until I remembered that one of my friends had gone to the high school playing, so I called him and asked him for the score, which he had, and I got the game in with seconds to spare, (and likely saving the day). This was by far the most hectic week and perhaps most stressful of my semester here so far, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.