Sittin’ & Waitin’

16Sep08

So much of what do is “hurry up and wait.”  In the mornings we’re often sent out the door by 4am and on the air by 5am.  But a lot of times you’ll notice my reports don’t show up until 15 minutes after the start of the newscast, or even in the 530am news block.  Most of the time it’s planned like that (where we’d rush to get to our location and then wait for the live remote), other times it’s because we’re far from the scene and need a little extra time setting up.

But there there are other times we have to sit and wait.   Like right now.  I’m sitting in our live van with Channel 4 Photographer Beth Slepp-Paz.  She just finished editing the story we’ll air for our midday newscast which starts in 30 minutes.  We’re also waiting for the NTSB to begin it’s “site distance test” with two trains to figure out if the two engineers of the two trains saw each other before the crash.  I just commented to Marissa, my producer, that it’s funny to see all the news helicopters in the air – also waiting, burning fuel for sure, but waiting to get the shot and share it with viewers.  We’ll take a live look from News Chopper 4 when we go live momentarily.  I think what gets us done with our editing so early is the new non-linear editing system we have.  It allows us to edit quickly and make re-writes and changes at a moment’s notice.  It’s truly amazing.

Anywho, off to sit and wait some more.

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