KWTV

Day 2 of my Oklahoma City Media Tour Class. Today we got to meet News 9 reporter of two years.  She was interesting and  I felt like she gave great advice for being in the broadcasting business.She gave great advice the time she was with us.

"Always be prepared. Anything can and will happen.”
"Keep Contacts."
"The most important thing for a reporter is to follow up stories."
"It about your personality, what you do, who you know, and how tenacious you are."

"You got to take big risks to get big rewards"

After the speaker we were lucky enough to go on a tour of the KWTV station.  Talk about motivation to get out and find a job.  Seeing how everything works basically had me in awe the entire time I was there.  Being in the control room and studio during the newscast was probably the best experience in college I have had.  I am a technical director for UCO's newscast so it was great getting to see professionals in action.  Rusty Surrette and Michael Armstrong were great and answered all of our questions.  One of the best parts of the tour that however was getting to hang out with Jim Gardner and look inside the Helicopter.
 I learned a lot between the speaker and on the tour of the station as well.
It was a motivating experience.