Live with Miss Megs!

I have not had the courage to look at the tape yet.

I stayed up fighting with the TV and the Internet until 3 a.m. this morning, left the tape running since I can't program the VCR and went to bed. It's now just...sitting in my VCR. Jan is making me bring in the tape tomorrow so we can all watch it. I'd rather have the dentist yank my teeth out.

So how did it exactly go?

I got to work Wednesday morning and finished my story. Then I sent a copy of it to Josh, the morning anchor at WJHL. He called me back and told me how the interview was going to proceed. Then at 10:20, we started getting ready on our end. I interuptted Steve from his meeting with Mike Still, one of our other reporters, at least five times. ::grin:: We turned on the camera in the small control room then Steve fixed the mike. He also had an extra earpiece which is now mine.

I sat at the desk, which is really too big for me. I normally wind up crashing into the wall as I jump into the chair and roll backwards. Then I scooted up and we plugged in the earpiece. I placed it in my ear and then ran the microphone up my blouse and attached it to the front. Then I used the phone to call WJHL and as soon as I did, I could hear Josh and the producer in my ear. It wasn't as strange as I thought it would be, but I was getting nervous. I turned on the lights and began to adjust the camera using the control box in front of me.

( This is what the set looks like. )

Steve came back out and gave me a last minute pep talk. I have no idea what he said, I just remember a buzz in my ear.

Then they said they were ready and I nearly panicked. Then I remembered what Ms. Scott told us right before my first game as a freshman in the Million Dollar Band. She told all the new members to stand on the field and gawk at the 83,500 member audience for a moment, then get on the field and do your job. I remember standing there as a wide-eyed freshman, trying to take it all in. So I did that now. I sat there, took in the lights, the camera, Jan and Jen rooting me on, and then did my job.

Apparently I did a good job. Everyone's been talking about it all day. I'm now a TV star, at least in the newsroom. ::grin::

When it was over, I buried my head in my hands and went, "Oh, God!" Tim, the WJHL photographer who works out of the newsroom, said that was his favorite part of the entire deal. I nearly beaned him for that one.

So that was the story of my first time on TV. I survived! Maybe I'll go watch the video of myself now.

Or maybe not.