Friday, February 18, 2011

Productions in Full Swing!

Our studio was in use Monday through Thursday this week providing a location for five shoots, several tours by prospective producers, and a couple of meetings.

"The Dukes of Sports" started off the week with Director Sam Pyfrom filling in for co-host Mike Cadran and showing off his knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, professional wrestling. Just after "The Dukes of Sports" crew left, Joe Gochinski was joined on his "The Western Mass Democrat" set by State Senator Ben Downing for an interview about the local impact of state politics.

Tuesday began early in the morning for our station manager who arrived at nine for a meeting and then at eleven gave a tour of our studio and production facilities to a producer who hadn't been here since we were manually editing VHS tapes. In the afternoon, the crew of "Franklin County Matters" taped a show with local singer/activist Quickchange about her life and featuring her latest work.

Wednesday saw us setting up for the Greenfield Town Council Meeting using our new set pieces. They seemed to be well received by the councilors and we hope the audience liked them too. Recently promoted to full time Production Assistant Philippe Simon found that the new tables allowed him to get things ready for the town council by himself and much more quickly than before.

Finally, on Thursday morning Fred Goldberg shared his ideas about education with Dr. Andrew Blais on "Local Bias".

With all of these folks in our studio, lots of equipment going out, and several programs being edited, it was a very busy week and our staff is happy to be going into a three-day weekend.

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