New Saturday Format!

Last night at Jason called to do the six for him... I decided to take the show for the following reasons:
1. I'm broke.
2. The experience.
3. I had nothing better to do (except clean my room).
4. Jason did my ten last week when I was exhausted from my retreat.

And it actually worked out well... Today was the first day (since I've been at KOMU) there's been two anchors on a Saturday show and I got to produce it. I know it's so nerdy, but I love it when I get to try new things!

Working with Jen and Nick was amazing because first of all, we're such great friends, but also because I thought their dynamic would be great on air and they are just very go with the flow people. As my mom would say our personalities blend.

One of the big stories was Claire McCaskill's rant on the bailout executives and how much money they made... I planned on doing a cold open with her SOT which talked about kicking sand in the faces of American taxpayers, but then Amanda Jagdeo suggested using it in a headline -- I got uber excited.

Ever since I was back in Detroit, I became obsessed with watching the local news there and critiquing it. I wanted to see what they did and what KOMU could do, but also to see how they structured their newscasts and the content decisions they made.

New boxes aka putting a slug/headline in the boxes came from Detroit, and using SOT's in teases and headlines became this huge idea for me. Tonight when I used it, I think the headline was incomplete. I needed more explianiation on the end of it. I used the SOT and then had Nick say, "KOMU 8 News at Six starts right now," and I don't think it really worked as well as I hoped. I needed Nick to say something else after the SOT.

I love trying new things... new dual anchors, SOT's in headlines. I'm so glad I have another year and change left so I can keep trying these new things! Wow... I sound like a geek. It's fun!