The Continuation

First, I want to apologize again for not posting sooner. I have to say that this is my busiest time of year.

Well, to continue with the story....Now where was I? Oh yeah! Mr. Loyd was giving me his answer about whether or not I could come and work with him. Mind you, I am only 17 years old. Greg Loyd said, "Sure, It would be great to have some help." Wow, I could not believe it. In fact, I could not sleep the night before I was to meet Greg and go out with him on a story.

I got out of school at noon and went to find the Newscenter 10 Valdosta Bureau. It took me forever to find it. I looked and looked. I thought I had the right address. I kept looking for a small strip mall with a glass door that had "Newscenter 10" on it, however I could not find it. I even began looking for building along the road that had some type of microwave tower. NOTHING. So, I called Greg. He laughed and told me to look for apartments. I found the apartments which were some how the somehow the same address that I had for the bureau. I pulled in an saw him standing on the second floor in front of an apartment door. I thought, "this can't be the bureau, maybe he is going to take me to it." I saw the "Newscenter 10" jeep parked there as well. I got out and met Greg. We went throught the formalities of a fist time introduction and he invited me in. Believe it or not, this was the bureau. He had a two bedroom apartment. One was his and the other was "the studio". We have had some great laughs about that ever since. "The studio" consisted of a folding table with a beta machine and a 3/4 inch machine, and edit controller and a sound mixer. He was also hooked into the newsroom computer system. Essentially, he would get his assignments from the main studio 90 miles away, go out and have to be back by 10:30 to write and edit his package and VO SOTs by 12:30pm. Not to beamed back by microwave, but to be couriered back! WHHEEWW! It was sometimes tough because he had 6 counties to cover by his self!

I promise I will post again soon! I will write about my first story that I ever went out on.

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