Training

One of the most consistent things you'll find at a television station is the training of new employees. It's a constant wheel that must keep moving due to turnover of employees, vacation and illness.

As such, we like all our production assistants to be up to speed in every position. I've mentioned Tom Hunsicker in a past blog. Tom has worked in our sports department as an intern. That was a few semesters ago. After his internship was over, he hung around the sports department and helped them out on his own time. That’s finally paid off for him. He now has a paying job in our production department.

He started running the teleprompter and we're now training him to floor direct during our broadcasts. For those of you that don't know, the floor director is at the side of the cameras directing the anchors from one camera to the next.

Here's a small piece of video to give you an idea of where the floor director is positioned in the studio.

Tom is a marvelous asset to the television station. We’re all fortunate to have someone of Tom’s caliber working with us to bring you the news of the day!