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2010 Spring Conference Telling Your Story. Television. Television. Nearly everyone has a TV Average household watches 7 hours a day Even though radio and newspaper websites are catching up, people still turn to television in times of disaster, natural and human caused. What TV Needs.
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Television • Nearly everyone has a TV • Average household watches 7 hours a day • Even though radio and newspaper websites are catching up, people still turn to television in times of disaster, natural and human caused
What TV Needs • Visuals • Moving pictures • Action • Drama – Tears, emotion, anger • Pretty people • Live, local • An hour or less drive from the TV station
How to get on TV • Move to Bend • Work with the TV station personnel • Have a visual, interesting story to report • Find out that a county employee has been skimming general fund money • Get arrested • Resign or not run for re-election
Journalism • An honorable craft – • Battered by economics – • But some things remain tried and true!
The Basics • WHO • WHAT • WHERE • WHEN • HOW • WHY