10:28
We've reached the end of the show. We hope you like the blog idea. Keep coming back and look for the play by play each weekend. We had a great show today! In the tv business we call this one "clean". Hope you enjoyed it too.
10:23
We're doing our last (what we call in television)"talkback" with Lisa Umina at St. Augustine's. This is where I tell you about Chris Kunz, the photographer who does those shots for us every weekend. Chris does a great job for us. He's a pro.
10:20
A big thank you to our Technical Director, Dawn Ermler. She is great at whipping up a graphic when we need one, like our blog graphic today.
Also, good try Julie. Julie Ocepek (our aforementioned assigment editor) went to the blog and answered the trivia question. She was the only one to play. I won't tell you if she got it right. Keep it in mind next week though. You can submit your answer online.
By the way. Jeff, Kim, and the crew... we never know what Bruce is going to ask, so we play along, just like you do. Bruce comes up with some crazy ones. The whole trivia thing started with AJ Colby when he did weekend mornings. Bruce has not missed a beat.
10:14
So we're coming up to Del Donahoo's segment- "The Del's Folks Classic". I have to say I love Del. He is such an interesting person to talk to. I love his stories about the "old days" of television. He once took a job because the station had a hot plate. Unfortunately, when he arrived there for his first day, the hot plate was gone! It seemed like it worked out for him though. I still think that some of these stories, which are close to 30 years old, are timeless and I like them alot. I hope you do too.
10:10
Here's another inside tv note. The interview goes shorter than you planned, so you have to fill the time somehow. How? Call Bruce and tell him he just picked up 30 seconds. That's why he was a little late getting to the set just now. He was adding graphics to his weather segment because of me. Sorry Bruce.
10:05
In the seconds before the Josh Taylor interview started I was working fast to get the graphic that you see behind the interview set to work. We had a little problem, but we fixed it. I call this the "Producer Olympics". Situations producers get into, then must get out of, in record time.
10:03
Josh Taylor from the Downtown Cleveland Alliance is here to talk about tomorrow's "I Love Downtown" trolley tour. For 20 bucks you can hop on a trolley and tour a lot of places to live in Downtown Cleveland. They'll also make stops at a couple of restaurants too. It sounds like a great idea and the "Alliance" is working hard to do their part to get and keep people downtown.
9:57
More behind the scenes. Bethany Fox is floor directing today and we had her run up the stairs into web world and get the blog page up on the computer up there, so we can show it all to you on tv. Gotta go get a guest. Be right back.
9:48
The glory of television. I just sprinted across the newsroom to grab some information for Kim, then sprinted out to the set to get it to her before the break ended. On my way back in, I saw Josh Taylor from the Downtown Cleveland Alliance. He will be on at 10am to talk about a trolley tour downtown tomorrow. When I got back in here, Matt Babb told me he spilled his Powerade all over himself. I told you, the glory of television.
9:43
If you haven't seen the Olympic Stadium in Beijing yet, it is pretty cool. They call it "The Bird's Nest", which is pretty self-explanatory.
9:40
Added to my duties today- the blog. This is the first time we've done this, so we are trying to figure it out as we go. I keep posting stuff with Matt Babb (our director) and we keep calling out to Julie Ocepek on the assignment desk to jump on WKYC.COM to make sure it works.
9:32
A great event is underway at St. Augustine's on West 14th Street in Tremont. They're collecting things like diapers, formula, and Giant Eagle gift cards. They're calling it "Fill The Wagon" and it runs until 3pm this afternoon. We will be there live all morning long. I remember helping out St. Augustine when I was a student at Central Catholic High School.
9:23
Bruce just revealed today's trivia question (I have no clue what the answer is). He also told us it his 34th wedding anniversary today.
He admitted he forgot after Kim brought it up.
9:17
Great information on body sculpting today from Dr. John Pederson from Summa.
9AM
Hey! This is Dave Grendzynski, the Weekend Morning Producer at WKYC. The show has begun. What a great shot from out in front of the "Q".
Fanfest today before the Cavs and Wizards.
During the show, I spend most of my time watching the time. I make sure the interviews stay on track and Bruce gets all the time he needs for weather. I am also running in and out grabbing the guests and taking them into the studio. Like right now, gotta go get the doctor. Body sculpting is today's topic.
***Thanks to Floor Director Bethany Fox for today's behind the scenes cell phone photos***
Labels: Weekend Morning Show, WKYC
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Nothing says "don't get out of bed" like a cold wind blowing through the rigging and rain drops pattering on the v-berth hatch a few feet above your head. That's what we have this morning in Sandusky Bay as we get ready for the first full weekend on the boat.
For many of us, today was the supposed to be the day to hank on our main sails and hoist and roll our jibs. We launched "Adagio" last Saturday in the sunshine. Sunday as you recall was a total washout. So we wait for the following weekend to make the boat look pretty and get the sails ready to fly. That's not going to happen today.
Jeff's father and mother, Wirt and Ruth Maynor
Technical Director Dawn Ermler-Fischer's mother Joanne
