School is in full swing and so is the sunshine! With senior year comes exciting adventure, filled with slight anxiety that in 9 months I will be stepping into the real world. But nevertheless I am back and ready for the year ahead.
I started my semester bright and early (or really late at night depending on how you look at it) by arriving at KOMU at midnight ready for my KOMU 8 News Today monday morning live shot shift. My producer and I had corresponded earlier that evening and I knew I was headed to Moberly, MO for a preview of Claire McCaskill's forum on healthcare. I wrote my scripts complete with sound bites from some previous stories expressing both sides of the healthcare issue and also a McCaskill sound bite responding to some protesters from another forum on her statewide tour. Her goal is to get feedback from citizens and take it back to Washington when the healthcare bill is debated in the fall. After getting my scripts ready to go, make-up on and live truck operator ready, we headed to Moberly. Upon arrival and after trying for about an hour at three different spots around Moberly, we were not able to receive a signal for the live shot. It was 5 am and we raced back to the station since the show still had two hours remaining. I flew into the station at 5:45 and made it back just in time to do 4 full onset reports about the forum. Quick teamwork and persistence allowed the McCaskill story to stay alive in the studio despite technical troubles with the live shot. As they say- The show must go on! and that it did!
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