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Scorpiomoon

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 11:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey guys!

I apologize if this question has been previously asked.

I was watching the news last night and I was thinking about how, in our society, ending up on TV is a really big deal. I wondered if, in certain circumstances, it altered someone's life. I'm not talking about someone becoming a celebrity per se, but maybe getting more recognition in the community or something.

I also wondered how it feels to see yourself on TV. Is it the same as when you see yourself on video--a bit surreal?

So, has anyone ever been on TV? What was it like?

Zeno39

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 01:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This isn't much, but the local news station was doing a thing outside the bank that I use. I was getting out of the car to go in the bank and stopped when I saw them filming. They said to go on with my business, as they wanted it to look natural. They said it would be on the 6 o'clock news. I called my two daughters who live here to tell them to watch. I looked just about as I do any other time. They filmed me going into the bank. A few other people saw me and called me. That was my 30 seconds of glory. Ha.

Max

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 04:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I organized a group of PT Cruisers in our local 4th of July Parade this year. We had something like 22 cars participating. When we got to the main area of the parade where the TV cameras were, the "roving reporter" came over to my car and asked if they could talk to me. When she got the signal from the control room, she asked me a couple of questions and I responded. Got about 2 minutes on TV. I had been prepared for the possibility that would happen (thank God), so I had a little spiel all figured out. She asked me what was so great about the cars and I told her that it was a fun car and came complete with a social life and that drive truly equals love (Chrysler's current marketing campaign). She got a big kick out of that. I even managed to get a plug in for the convention we had over Labor Day weekend. It was cool. :)

Twinkie

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've never been on TV but my house is on quite often. The local PBS station shows it occasionally in between programs. They also show things like the Art Gallery, the Philharmonic Hall, Toronto, Niagara Falls, etc. at other times.

Mosessupposes

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 04:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My claim to fame: I was once in the "Peanut Gallery" on the "Howdy Doody Show". For those of you who have never heard of this show, it was an icon of the 1950s.

All I can remember is how unbelieveably hot the studio lights were.

Sabbatia

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 05:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've never been on TV. I chickened out the one time I was supposed to be interviewed. My husband is on pretty regulary though, since he's a cop.

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 05:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been on some without much personal reaction to it - interviews on cases and such. If one must be interviewed on TV, it helps to be friends with the journalist and cameraman. For the most part, though, I avoid it as much as possible for reasons too numerous to mention - all of them coming down to editorial control issues. I find it a much weirder experience when my mother or sister show up on my TV out of NOWHERE when I'm flipping channels and come across a movie they've done or mom's being interviewed over her LPGA tournament. I generally don't have any forewarning on these occasions and so am startled to see Mom when I know she's 250 miles away and my sister when I know she's on the other side of the world in Kenya. Just about takes me out of my shoes every time.

PS this also happened recently with my mother and father. I didn't know they'd filmed the Q-ray infomercial when they were in Florida. Dad's laying sleeping in his hospital bed, I'm sitting beside him watching TV and there he is on TV with my Mom giving testimonial for these damned bracelets I'd seen them wearing around but never asked about. Surreal.

Jagger

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 05:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was on the local tv station once, they were doing major road construction outside my house and they were asking some of the neighbors how they thought it would effect our commutes. I asked everyone I knew if they saw me on TV and noone did, so I had my 15 minutes of fame that noone saw.

Jbean

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 05:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i have been on tv a couple of times. when i was a kid there was a local program called children's hour, with aunt norma. it was basically a cartoon show, and then "aunt norma" would read a story to the kids. my brownie troup was on the show. i was 8 or 9, and don't remember it very well. (btw, "Aunt Norma" is now a POLITICIAN...she was elected as state auditor (i think) during the last election.) sad.

when i was like 18 or 19, i was on a commercial for our local nbc station. i worked at a kiosk in the mall, and the people from the station came to the mall to tape people to be on the commercials. i held up 3 fingers and said "ky3 is the place to be". lol. that was funny!

and last, i was on a news story for you guessed it, KY3 about 5 years ago. i lived in branson, mo at the time, and there are several popular outlet malls there, where people flock to for christmas shopping. i worked at the eddie bauer store, and they did a story on how busy the malls get during the christmas season. i didn't speak, they just showed clips of me at the cash register. that was kind of fun. the news anchor was really nice.

none of the appearances really had any affect on me though. they weren't really any big deal....sorry for the long post! :)

Jed245

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 06:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was on t.v. once... Does anyone remember the NBC show PM magazine? Well there was a civil war demonstration at a local high school. Still being in high school myself we had a feild trip there.

The folks from the show came and started filming it as we were there seeing the demo on how the weapons were loaded and fired. To me it was a funny story because there was a girl in my class that wanted to be on camera.

She was pushing her way past everyone and tip toeing so she could be seen. I had thought she was near me. So when someone backed into my shoulder I naturally being a punky lil kid shoved my shoulder forward pushing them off of me.

It was the lady from the show umm Debbie something. I shoved her and she stumbled about three steps. hehe. :o) that was filmed, but, didn't make air time. However I got to stand there on camera for about 10 minutes. So I got five more comming to me from somewhere. :o)

Jed.

Schoolmarm

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 06:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been on TV several times, but not recently.

The only national coverage was when I sang in a Sweet Adelines chorus that sang "Good Morning, America" for the promo for the show. I was front row center.

When I taught at King School, I was frequently on the news. Interviewed extensively about our anti-drug education rally. All of my Martin Luther King musicals were filmed by all three local networks and often shown as file footage for civil rights issues. I would often meet people who greeted me with "I saw you playing the guitar on TV last night" when the footage was YEARS old.

The same year that I did the GMA promo, my brother was on national TV when his crew cut down the Christmas tree headed for the white house. My parents thought that it was great to have both of us on TV.

I look exceedingly white and pastey on TV. I suppose that now that I have roseacea, I would look white and pastey with big rosey blotchy cheeks.

I've been on TV with many of the musical programs that I've performed in...just part of the job.

Not bad for a SMALL TOWN girl, huh?

Teatime

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 06:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When the Bay City, Michigan Chamber of Commerce runs their ad for their annual "Pig Gig" on the local station, for a few brief seconds there is a shot with me and my 2 daughters hammering away on some wood at a kid's craft area. We were very intent on our project and never knew we were filmed. A relative spotted us and sent me a tape.

They've been running that commercial for 8 years. So my claim to fame is the "Pig Gig" woman, showing family fun at the pork rib cook-off.

Mack

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 06:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a personalized license plate on my Explorer that reads "IH82LSE". Came from my days at the chess board and Vegas. Anyhow, E television apparently did a special on plates they'd seen and here on national TV was my Explorer! No problem there but the truck was parked behind a hotel and my then wife, now ex, got a call from a friend saying our truck was on TV. We were a bit strained as it was, didn't need the extra help. Before you get the wrong idea I was actually in the office building next door on business. :-)

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 06:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was the public information officer for a law enforcement agency for about fourteen years, so I was on television a lot, well, maybe once a month on average unless something big was going down. At first it wsa very weird to see myself on television and to hope against hope that I didn't really look or sound like that. Then everybody would come up to me the next day and tell me they saw me and how terrific I looked. Ack! I finally reconciled to myself that I really did look like that, and it was probably okay.

Oh! Almost forgot. I am on television right now. A new store in the town where we live was making a television commercial at a time we were at the store, and they shot some footage of Bigdog and I entering the store. We air on some cable station several times per day.

Babyruth

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 07:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Teatime!
We drive thru Bay City a few times a year....when is the oinkfest?
Speaking of Michigan fun, have you been to the Annual Fish Sandwich Festival in Bayport?

Teatime

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pig Gig's in the summer, Mr. Tea says June, and I'm thinking July. It coincides with Thunder on the Bay, the tunnel-hull boat races on Saginaw Bay.

Fish Sandwich Festival!!! AH HAHAHA I'm going to find my map and look up Bayport. There's no festival out there too hokey for my crew! I do fish as well as pig. If the timing's right, I can wrap up this Michigan tour with Asparagus ice cream over in Shelby/Hart area.

I'm going to find Pamy...She's been on a couple of TV shows some of you may have heard of

Bookworm

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I was little, Des Moines had a local children's show called The Floppy Show. Floppy was a puppet and his human friend was named Duane. Anyway there was always an audience of children on this show, usually twenty or more, and they got to tell Floppy jokes and honk his nose. Well Mom took me out of Kindergarten one day so my brother and I could go with two of the neighbor kids to be on the show. That day it was the four of us and two other children. I used to be really shy and I was the only one who didn't get up to tell a joke. I do remember that I was very interested in watching myself in the monitors that were set up on each side of the studio and wondered why my face was looking off to the side when I was looking into them. I thought I should be looking at myself like a mirror.

Marysafan and Serate might remember The Floppy Show. Duane has since passed away, but Floppy is in the Iowa Historical Museum.

Ann

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 08:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been on tv a few times. I was in a musical group in the 60's that was on a local "American Bandstand" type of show a couple of times. And I've been caught doing the "hi mom" wave a few times at sporting events.

I had one embarassing moment on tv back in the early 70's. I lived in a famous tourist town at the time and was wearing a very tight, revealing t-shirt (with no bra) with the name of the town written across the front. To make a long story short, I was part of a newscast and the final shot of the news piece was of my t-shirt. There were my boobs promenently displayed across the tv screen. This was a national news cast... my parents, who lived across the country, were not amused. Neither was I... I had no idea that I was being filmed in that way. The fall out from that was that I was voted the girl with the best breasts in town!!! When you're 19 and single that's not such a bad thing, I guess. (I wish I had those same perky breasts now 30 years later!)

Sia

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 08:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Never on TV, but years ago I gave testimonial in a FedEx training film about customer support. That was a weird experience.

I now go to EXTREME lengths to avoid being captured on film in any way, manner, or form! (talk about redundant! I'm just adamant about it!) There are almost no recent photos of me, and I destroy the few that are taken as quickly as possible. I avoid cameras, camcorders, and security cams whenever possible.

When co-hosting a baby shower in October, I went and hid until my sister put away her video camera because I did not want to be filmed. Yuk, no way!

Scorpiomoon

Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 11:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I LOVE THIS!!!

Thanks guys for sharing yoru experiences. I have found all your stories incredibly fascinating. I guess it's because TV is such a big part of our lives yet only a minority of us end up on it...that's why I am finding your stories really interesting.

Jo_5329

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 04:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sia, I'm like you .. never on tv, but my last employer, an adult probation department, did an orientation film and I played a lawyer in front of the judge with my client. It was really weird to see myself on tape .. I had to just stand there before the judge, and then when my client says something stupid, I have to look and glare at her. It took us forever to film it because the judge is a joker, and nice looking to boot, and he kept cracking us all up by saying stuff under his breath.

My husband is in the military and has been on local shots before, unintentionally mind you, because he hates his picture taken. But I've sat there watching the local news, and wham, he's there! Weird.

Jo

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 05:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bookie, I can't believe you were on the Floppy Show! I remember being puzzled about the Floppy cult following when I went to college in Iowa (being from out of state, I had NO CLUE as to the huge following this children's show had).

So we have been on the same network!

I also had a disturbing experience with a documentary film crew...for three days a bunch of camera men were roving the halls, classrooms, and practice rooms of my graduate school to shoot film for IBM, as they had a partnership with the school, and wanted to send footage back to the employees in Rochester, Minnesota. Well, they came in during my organ lesson while I was going over a new piece. I did NOT sound very good. My teacher used to live in Rochester so he was hamming up for the camera and sending greetings to his old friends there. I just wanted to slide under the pedal board and have them go away. Well, my cousin works at IBM there and lo and behold there I was...hacking my way through a piece. ACK!

I also search the forest fire footage whenever it hits the news, as my brother is in that business. We have seen him a couple of times.

I don't think that my youngest brother has ever been on TV....hmmmmm.

Heyltslori

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 06:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Teatime and Babyruth... I was born and lived the first 12 years of my life in Bay City... the whole pig gig thing is news to me though. (However I may have just pushed it out of my memory...lol) Now if you want to talk Michigan Festivals....how about the Cherry Festival in Traverse City...or the Tulip Festival in Holland...or the Lilac Festival...or the Potato Fest...or.. :) Such a happenin' state.

Mware

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 06:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been on TV three times in my life (at least that I know of.)

The first was when I was either 4 or 5. There was a local kids TV show called The Ranger Station, and some of my little friends and I went to the studio to watch the filming of the show, and we were just about the whole audience. They showed us sitting there, mesmerized by the show.

Second time was when I was about 9. I collected money around the neighborhood for Jerry Lewis's Muscular Dystrophy telethon, and I brought my canister to a local mall to drop it off. During one of the segments where they cut to the local station, I was on, bringing my canister with over $60 in coins up on stage and giving it to the host.

Last time was just recently. I was walking through the TV and video section of Sears, and I walked in front of a video camera. I looked up and I was on every TV in the department!

Marysafan

Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 06:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was on "The Wide World of Sports" back in the sixites when it was still filmed in black and white. OH...get real! NO, I wasn't a competitor...I was a spectator! I was about 13 years old, and was at a ski jumping competition at our local "Suicide Hill". When we watched it on tv, they showed my best friend and me totally entralled in the competition.

This was a good thing because a) those who went to the competition were excused from school that day. So it was proof....that I actually was there! and b) also proof that I really was interested in the competition...and not just in watching the boys!

Sorry, Bookie, I missed the whole "Fluffy" thing. I didn't grow up in Iowa...I just moved here in 1992...so I am a relative newcomer.