1 00:00:04,34 --> 00:00:08,73 I did welcome to you off the hill I'm your host Joel Connors this week we are in 2 00:00:08,74 --> 00:00:13,86 the studio here to fourteen with one of my classmates I'm very excited to introduce 3 00:00:13,87 --> 00:00:18,91 Jessica Jessica thanks for being here my pleasure so excited to have you show 4 00:00:18,92 --> 00:00:22,72 thanks for coming up now thanks for asking being in here tonight OK So first 5 00:00:22,73 --> 00:00:26,87 question I ask everyone is when we're used to your west liberty I graduated high 6 00:00:26,88 --> 00:00:31,69 school in two thousand so two thousand and two thousand for pretty traditional 7 00:00:31,70 --> 00:00:36,31 student yes right and are you from your high valley did you grow up here yes I went 8 00:00:36,32 --> 00:00:36,40 to 9 00:00:36,41 --> 00:00:41,23 a willing park and went to us live afterwards All right so when you were deciding on 10 00:00:41,24 --> 00:00:44,97 schools was this kind of did you know your path where you were going to do you or 11 00:00:45,01 --> 00:00:48,78 did you sort of tour around different schools I had no idea I was coming here this 12 00:00:48,79 --> 00:00:54,50 was honestly my last resort but it was the best case out of the whole situation we 13 00:00:54,51 --> 00:00:55,81 were thinking about going to Fairmont for 14 00:00:55,82 --> 00:00:59,78 a while my best friend who was my roommate here and she decided she didn't want to 15 00:00:59,79 --> 00:01:03,37 go there so she said I'm going to go to us live and I said OK I'll try it for 16 00:01:03,38 --> 00:01:05,05 a semester and then for 17 00:01:05,06 --> 00:01:11,19 a great years later I graduated Wow Wow How about that you know ha so your first 18 00:01:11,20 --> 00:01:15,42 time on campus where you kind of like me and it's all the way up here did you learn 19 00:01:15,43 --> 00:01:19,44 what kept us to yeah I did I lived on campus local I just lived in Wheeling I lived 20 00:01:19,45 --> 00:01:23,57 in the grove So coming up here I think one of my reservations was it being too 21 00:01:23,58 --> 00:01:27,16 close to home right and I wanted to get further away right but I found living on 22 00:01:27,17 --> 00:01:31,45 campus wasn't close to home right here at home that was close to home but I stayed 23 00:01:31,46 --> 00:01:37,01 up here a lot of the time so yeah OK so what was your major while I started out as 24 00:01:37,02 --> 00:01:43,44 a business major big sports fan being a fellow fan Steelers fan and I thought for 25 00:01:43,45 --> 00:01:44,48 a while maybe I could be 26 00:01:44,49 --> 00:01:49,84 a sports agent while I quickly learned that my knowledge was not that expensive so 27 00:01:49,85 --> 00:01:54,07 I started out in business though for that reason and then I interned for newscast 28 00:01:54,08 --> 00:01:56,74 my brother was called Major and I interned for 29 00:01:56,75 --> 00:01:59,92 a newscast and I thought it looked fun so I switched majors and became 30 00:01:59,93 --> 00:02:02,17 a call major Now I'm going to use 31 00:02:02,18 --> 00:02:07,80 a phrase it's going to sound. Poorly it's not meant that way but in those days 32 00:02:07,81 --> 00:02:08,92 right the T.V. 33 00:02:08,93 --> 00:02:14,16 Station was not this beautiful amazing facility that it is now it was in the 34 00:02:14,17 --> 00:02:18,94 basement of a library and tiny tiny room many rooms an antiquated equipment and 35 00:02:19,15 --> 00:02:22,77 a lot of Quitman I was talking to Chris Lee before I came on about the packs we had 36 00:02:22,78 --> 00:02:26,71 to carry it out three quarter inch tape over her shoulder and talk up saying it 37 00:02:26,72 --> 00:02:30,36 made me sound like I'm seventy seven years old because these guys have been using I 38 00:02:30,37 --> 00:02:34,23 don't even if you use tapes or cards or what you use but at the T.V. 39 00:02:34,24 --> 00:02:39,65 Station we're completely paperless now so it's crazy OK So let's talk about your 40 00:02:39,66 --> 00:02:40,46 experience here as 41 00:02:40,47 --> 00:02:45,93 a student so you lived on campus and then call Major what with things in that where 42 00:02:45,94 --> 00:02:46,62 you T.V. 43 00:02:46,63 --> 00:02:51,87 Radio newspaper all three I didn't really do anything in the newspaper but I was 44 00:02:51,88 --> 00:02:55,11 heavily involved in radio and I actually did a radio show I think before I became 45 00:02:55,12 --> 00:02:58,18 a call major and then I was in T.V. 46 00:02:58,23 --> 00:03:01,35 And I was heavily involved and I think when you're a commie and you're 47 00:03:01,36 --> 00:03:04,53 a little bit married to it and that's what keeps you busy on campus Those are the 48 00:03:04,54 --> 00:03:08,89 activities you're always doing something shooting editing and when we were back 49 00:03:08,90 --> 00:03:12,75 there we had to reserve there were two decks that if they worked that we had to 50 00:03:12,76 --> 00:03:17,25 sign up to you know end it with over the weekend so you basically had to be 51 00:03:17,26 --> 00:03:21,75 a commie to live there yeah that's interesting I think for people to know because I 52 00:03:21,76 --> 00:03:23,42 think being married to 53 00:03:23,43 --> 00:03:27,29 a major I think people think of other majors first before they would think of of 54 00:03:27,30 --> 00:03:28,87 calm majors you know you think of 55 00:03:28,88 --> 00:03:32,82 a student athlete being married to that you think of possibly music major being 56 00:03:32,83 --> 00:03:36,02 married to that because of practicing and all these other things but you don't 57 00:03:36,03 --> 00:03:40,54 really think of calm majors as you do you you have to be ingrained in it and live 58 00:03:40,55 --> 00:03:42,32 it all the time right plus it's not 59 00:03:42,66 --> 00:03:48,15 a test to see taking major you know you have to be hands on you know you have to do 60 00:03:48,16 --> 00:03:51,25 all we did all of our shooting all of our editing we had to learn everything in the 61 00:03:51,26 --> 00:03:55,51 control room and it was what you made it so when you edited you could do very 62 00:03:55,56 --> 00:03:59,88 cookie cutter basic stuff or you could make it special and I think for the Grays we 63 00:03:59,89 --> 00:04:03,19 want to make it special but we'll end entertain each other too so it really kept us 64 00:04:03,20 --> 00:04:05,33 busy and interested in our major. There's 65 00:04:05,34 --> 00:04:09,00 a real creative element in that did you feel that you were given 66 00:04:09,01 --> 00:04:10,06 a lot of creative freedom as 67 00:04:10,07 --> 00:04:13,63 a student or did you feel like you're confined under the confines of say 68 00:04:13,64 --> 00:04:15,35 a syllabus and not as 69 00:04:15,36 --> 00:04:18,67 a commentator I think that we all pretty much have to do it we want to do and 70 00:04:18,87 --> 00:04:22,32 that's how you learned you had to learn by playing with the systems and if you 71 00:04:22,33 --> 00:04:23,62 would have tried to put 72 00:04:23,63 --> 00:04:27,33 a hold on our creativity and I think we would have learned it as well yeah I would 73 00:04:27,34 --> 00:04:30,95 agree with that so I always ask each guest about 74 00:04:30,99 --> 00:04:32,97 a faculty member or professor who had 75 00:04:32,98 --> 00:04:35,85 a major impact on them I'm sure I know you're in this but I just wanted to ask you 76 00:04:35,86 --> 00:04:36,99 anyway so was there 77 00:04:37,00 --> 00:04:40,46 a faculty member or professor had an impact on you yeah it was does that person 78 00:04:40,60 --> 00:04:43,06 keep in contact with you now do they follow your career Yeah it's definitely 79 00:04:43,11 --> 00:04:46,83 Christly out of everyone here I mean I loved all of my professors I was privileged 80 00:04:46,84 --> 00:04:50,73 enough that Mr Hanna when I was here he was fabulous too yeah but Chris with all of 81 00:04:50,74 --> 00:04:55,27 the hands on. Classes that he taught I think that's what those are everybody's 82 00:04:55,28 --> 00:05:01,36 favorite classes yeah and he had an interesting way of putting things he was you 83 00:05:01,37 --> 00:05:05,32 know it was fun it was fun it was conversational more than you know 84 00:05:05,33 --> 00:05:09,71 a syllabus of the details and the test that he gave were absolute killers but you 85 00:05:09,72 --> 00:05:14,46 know in between that time it worked well what I like about Chris Lee and I'm sure 86 00:05:14,47 --> 00:05:17,93 that there are other majors here that have faculty members that are like this but I 87 00:05:17,94 --> 00:05:21,58 mean you and I have experience with Chris so that's what did go on but what I like 88 00:05:21,59 --> 00:05:25,25 about Chris is that I really feel like he prepared you for the world and not just 89 00:05:25,29 --> 00:05:29,77 a career it wasn't you know learn this skill and you know get this job it was 90 00:05:29,78 --> 00:05:35,30 really about how to handle all kinds of situations you know. Something would be on 91 00:05:35,31 --> 00:05:37,52 fire maybe you know T.V. 92 00:05:37,53 --> 00:05:42,16 Three which happened sometimes or there would be some kind of thing going on and we 93 00:05:42,17 --> 00:05:42,79 would rush to him in 94 00:05:42,80 --> 00:05:47,27 a panic and he would say just sit down and we'll figure it out and he just really 95 00:05:47,28 --> 00:05:50,75 prepared you know you mentioned the world keeping in contact I think 96 00:05:50,76 --> 00:05:54,30 a lot of the experiences that he was able to give us came through people that 97 00:05:54,31 --> 00:05:58,05 graduated before us so he could use examples all the time if you remember he would 98 00:05:58,06 --> 00:06:02,40 always say this person from this class graduated and went and did this so that it 99 00:06:02,44 --> 00:06:05,49 always played into our class Yes and one person. Actually talked about 100 00:06:05,50 --> 00:06:09,01 a lot was our very entries aggression Yes Absolutely no we I feel like I knew her 101 00:06:09,02 --> 00:06:12,43 before we actually they were because Chris would always talk about her so she's 102 00:06:12,44 --> 00:06:15,67 doing this and that right there and you always want to be that success story that 103 00:06:15,68 --> 00:06:18,58 you talked about you know we're going to be that your picture on the wall there's 104 00:06:18,59 --> 00:06:22,25 no new news Chris and no one's ever been to his office I think he still does this 105 00:06:22,26 --> 00:06:26,37 there are pictures on the on the wall of his office of some of the head shots or 106 00:06:26,38 --> 00:06:29,98 people who have gone on to be on camera talent and various things but they're all 107 00:06:29,99 --> 00:06:35,59 these pictures and right I retrieve his picture being on there. And it's funny 108 00:06:35,60 --> 00:06:38,85 because looking at that picture you know thinking in that picture she was probably 109 00:06:39,28 --> 00:06:44,31 twenty four twenty five years whole you know like wow she's so good you know you 110 00:06:44,32 --> 00:06:45,52 know it's all and you have 111 00:06:45,53 --> 00:06:51,25 a career Yeah OK so what you said you were also into sports and you like that 112 00:06:51,26 --> 00:06:55,09 aspect of it right and when you were here were you able to cover things such as 113 00:06:55,80 --> 00:06:58,59 sports football basketball what have you yes in 114 00:06:58,60 --> 00:07:04,02 a completely different way than they do it now we had a camera and I think for 115 00:07:04,03 --> 00:07:07,93 a newscast for those who don't know about it you had an option to do 116 00:07:07,94 --> 00:07:09,91 a package or not an option you had to do a package for 117 00:07:09,92 --> 00:07:16,23 a class so for me I went out to every football game the year that I was that was my 118 00:07:16,27 --> 00:07:19,69 thing that's what I wanted to do I followed them to every game we went out of town 119 00:07:19,70 --> 00:07:24,23 for games it was great so I did get to have that experience here and that's what I 120 00:07:24,24 --> 00:07:28,29 wanted to do and I was able to do it and you know wasn't fighting anyone to do it 121 00:07:28,33 --> 00:07:33,68 so I was able to cover them all myself which was great but I ended up choosing 122 00:07:33,69 --> 00:07:37,44 a different path because of the experience so I was 123 00:07:37,45 --> 00:07:40,83 a in my first news cast my first semester of newscast I was 124 00:07:40,84 --> 00:07:43,94 a sports anchor I fought with the teleprompter had such 125 00:07:43,95 --> 00:07:47,80 a hard time with it and looking back now my packages it's I don't I'm just trying 126 00:07:47,81 --> 00:07:52,69 not to look at them and you explain to those who may not understand what is that 127 00:07:52,70 --> 00:07:57,22 package Oh well you go and shoot your own video you get interviews and you piece 128 00:07:57,23 --> 00:08:01,13 everything together with voiceover if that's what you want to do and so I would 129 00:08:01,14 --> 00:08:05,75 cover sporting events different games I did basketball too and. Come back and put 130 00:08:05,76 --> 00:08:09,26 it together with the interviews and there's you know sports too or just the males 131 00:08:09,27 --> 00:08:12,75 Well I did the women's boxing was pretty successful when I was here so you know I 132 00:08:12,76 --> 00:08:16,71 covered them in the eighty's or so it was new then too it was so that was exciting 133 00:08:17,03 --> 00:08:20,12 dating yourself. To Library T.V. 134 00:08:20,13 --> 00:08:24,20 Three things that those students I'm sure today have no idea I think it's really 135 00:08:24,21 --> 00:08:30,12 interesting for for our viewers to understand really how recent the successes are 136 00:08:30,13 --> 00:08:35,14 of channel fourteen and how far we've come and there are people like you and I that 137 00:08:35,15 --> 00:08:39,23 are out there and we can name other people too that are out in the local community 138 00:08:39,46 --> 00:08:44,62 in this field that. You know we learned in 139 00:08:44,63 --> 00:08:50,18 a very very different environment and people should know that how far West Liberty 140 00:08:50,19 --> 00:08:56,88 has come and. How really advanced technologically advanced the 141 00:08:56,89 --> 00:09:00,77 students are now and when the students that are graduating now from this program. 142 00:09:01,84 --> 00:09:07,50 You know under the leadership of folks like trees and now hard Monroe and Chris Lee 143 00:09:07,75 --> 00:09:11,48 that they're really coming out super prepared and I think have 144 00:09:11,49 --> 00:09:15,95 a leg up on on other folks and it's you know people maybe drive by and understand 145 00:09:15,96 --> 00:09:20,28 oh there's this new building right but I don't think they really understand the 146 00:09:20,29 --> 00:09:24,30 equipment the process you know like you said oh we don't cover sports you didn't 147 00:09:24,31 --> 00:09:26,61 cover sports then like we do now now we've got 148 00:09:26,65 --> 00:09:33,02 a truck and sideline reporter and I just you know it's the whole different it's 149 00:09:33,03 --> 00:09:33,17 just 150 00:09:33,18 --> 00:09:37,06 a whole different game now it really is and I think anybody walking off the street 151 00:09:37,07 --> 00:09:40,59 could come into this building and realize it's impressive yeah but from what we 152 00:09:40,60 --> 00:09:42,20 came from I just wish there was 153 00:09:42,21 --> 00:09:45,92 a monument somewhere that out that you know what we came from and I'm not that old 154 00:09:46,66 --> 00:09:51,20 saying that we've been around for ten years and this the development was huge right 155 00:09:51,33 --> 00:09:52,66 and you know in 156 00:09:52,67 --> 00:09:57,54 a very short amount of time I mean five to ten years in terms of changing 157 00:09:57,55 --> 00:10:00,20 a university and changing curriculum is really 158 00:10:00,29 --> 00:10:03,62 a very short amount of time right and what they've been able to do has been 159 00:10:03,89 --> 00:10:08,81 incredible I mean remember the first time we heard non-linear meeting which clearly 160 00:10:08,82 --> 00:10:15,40 is the standard now but we had one editor and one room 161 00:10:15,73 --> 00:10:18,44 and we would take turns and you were allowed to be in the building after 162 00:10:18,66 --> 00:10:21,78 a certain time and I said we would hide in there from the night janitors whatever 163 00:10:22,46 --> 00:10:27,31 and now they have an entire class right now it seems so sophisticated all of our 164 00:10:27,32 --> 00:10:30,87 editing was reel to reel on three quarter inch tape and that's we shot with these 165 00:10:30,88 --> 00:10:33,55 huge cameras and I mean out there was not 166 00:10:33,56 --> 00:10:36,24 a viewfinder I'm pretty certain on there you had to use your eyepiece to shoot 167 00:10:36,25 --> 00:10:40,83 a camera Oh yeah they were going to belittle it so they're just like you mentioned 168 00:10:40,84 --> 00:10:44,26 non-linear everything is non-linear Now I don't even know if they had 169 00:10:44,27 --> 00:10:48,11 a tape here I mean at the end saying how far will they probably do it like the 170 00:10:48,12 --> 00:10:53,77 history of media class right it's really depressing. OK We're going to take 171 00:10:53,78 --> 00:10:58,39 a quick break when we come back we're going to talk about where you are now running 172 00:10:58,98 --> 00:11:02,32 obviously I do you before you married OK I'll stick around be right back with 173 00:11:02,33 --> 00:11:02,87 Jessica right. 174 00:11:10,23 --> 00:11:14,67 Hi and welcome back to off the hill we are in the studio this week with our special 175 00:11:14,68 --> 00:11:18,67 guest Jessica Ryan Jessica thanks for being here so before the break we were 176 00:11:18,68 --> 00:11:21,95 talking about how you were commie ager and all the wonderful advances that have 177 00:11:21,96 --> 00:11:25,10 happened since you and I were students here to what we have now here to you know 178 00:11:25,11 --> 00:11:30,02 fourteen let's talk about what happened next so you're learning all these things 179 00:11:30,03 --> 00:11:30,57 you decide to be 180 00:11:30,58 --> 00:11:35,07 a calm major Did you go right into the workforce did you have some internships 181 00:11:35,08 --> 00:11:38,79 along the way tell us about that I had to enter in ships while I was still here for 182 00:11:38,80 --> 00:11:40,83 credit I did an internship with a T.V. 183 00:11:40,84 --> 00:11:43,92 Station on to Pennsylvania and the reason was there was 184 00:11:43,93 --> 00:11:49,27 a sports director there was Kelly Goodman who had really made some big advancements 185 00:11:49,28 --> 00:11:55,17 in women in sports so I actually set me up with that internship and I went up there 186 00:11:55,18 --> 00:11:59,15 and I remember her specifically saying to me because I'm a big N.F.L. 187 00:11:59,16 --> 00:12:03,81 Fan and we're covering all these local sports she said just go you can't go into 188 00:12:03,82 --> 00:12:06,12 being a sports reporter and only cover the N.F.L. 189 00:12:06,30 --> 00:12:09,59 And she said it very jokingly but it was something that has always stuck with me 190 00:12:09,81 --> 00:12:13,72 because it kind of changed my opinion I didn't know if that's what I want to cover 191 00:12:13,73 --> 00:12:17,85 I didn't want to necessarily cover local high school sports all the time and put 192 00:12:17,86 --> 00:12:18,69 your kids' names at 193 00:12:18,70 --> 00:12:23,00 a city I didn't grow up in this very predominant family and you know there was just 194 00:12:23,01 --> 00:12:26,65 all those thoughts that ran through my mind and then I did an internship with the 195 00:12:26,66 --> 00:12:30,18 Altoona curve there a little bit of pirates double a club and that was 196 00:12:30,19 --> 00:12:33,41 a huge opportunity so much fun and it was 197 00:12:33,42 --> 00:12:37,54 a lot of behind the scenes and one of the things that I definitely thought about 198 00:12:37,55 --> 00:12:41,67 talking about when you asked me to do the show was to point out that when I was 199 00:12:41,68 --> 00:12:46,51 there I knew how to run all of their equipment and I was there with people that 200 00:12:46,52 --> 00:12:48,49 went to Penn State who didn't know how to turn on 201 00:12:48,50 --> 00:12:52,60 a camera and I think that was one of the most important things that I realized 202 00:12:52,61 --> 00:12:56,81 right away I did that right after I graduated that West Liberty set me up to be 203 00:12:56,82 --> 00:13:00,44 able to be successful in this field because I had all of that knowledge and you 204 00:13:00,45 --> 00:13:05,21 couldn't it's been for less Libby you couldn't go from one. Class to the next 205 00:13:05,25 --> 00:13:07,88 without learning everything you needed to learn Are you ready time and that was 206 00:13:07,89 --> 00:13:08,79 really what I liked about being 207 00:13:08,80 --> 00:13:13,25 a calm ager so being there and being able to run all the equipment silly stuff like 208 00:13:13,26 --> 00:13:16,13 being able to put cables away right you know they just put them together and I 209 00:13:16,14 --> 00:13:20,09 thought oh Chris we would go crazy if you saw all these cables I remember we had 210 00:13:20,10 --> 00:13:23,27 like cable testing you would lay them out and say What's this cable do with cable 211 00:13:23,66 --> 00:13:26,38 you know direct them up correctly and you know I think that's 212 00:13:26,39 --> 00:13:30,59 a really interesting point that you make about not only were you prepared for the 213 00:13:30,60 --> 00:13:35,46 field but you were competitive against other people who were vying for the same 214 00:13:35,47 --> 00:13:41,85 positions and I knew from other universities and you know we sometimes. I think 215 00:13:42,04 --> 00:13:43,36 locally I think it's 216 00:13:43,37 --> 00:13:47,28 a human nature to kind of think you know we all live in our own fishbowl kind of 217 00:13:47,29 --> 00:13:52,38 thing so to put in perspective that you went out in the world you went to 218 00:13:52,39 --> 00:13:57,02 a you know my size market and you were competitive if not had 219 00:13:57,03 --> 00:14:00,96 a leg up right on other students who were competing for the same position that's 220 00:14:00,97 --> 00:14:05,49 really important to know yet and we did a little bit of lighting here and it was 221 00:14:05,50 --> 00:14:10,21 a whole lot of lighting but even the little bit of knowledge that I had was beyond 222 00:14:10,36 --> 00:14:14,40 anything that they could compete with they didn't understand shadowing and you know 223 00:14:14,41 --> 00:14:17,54 how to brighten it up and they couldn't see the difference and it was it wasn't 224 00:14:17,55 --> 00:14:18,65 just me being 225 00:14:18,96 --> 00:14:22,63 a student and putting in the time here it was that's what you had to know you know 226 00:14:22,67 --> 00:14:27,64 yes right great that's absolutely right and I also like that you had to know I 227 00:14:27,65 --> 00:14:34,42 remember Chris Lee would always say think about the and product before you even 228 00:14:34,43 --> 00:14:39,57 begin right and you know instead of thinking in terms of step one step two step 229 00:14:39,58 --> 00:14:42,99 three Step four you know and I think that helps you think like 230 00:14:43,00 --> 00:14:46,47 a producer that helps you think like a director that helps you think like a like 231 00:14:46,48 --> 00:14:50,29 a potential filmmaker right you know rather than just I'm running 232 00:14:50,30 --> 00:14:51,59 a camera or I'm running 233 00:14:51,60 --> 00:14:54,63 a teleprompter or I'm doing this or I'm doing not you know especially when you're 234 00:14:54,64 --> 00:14:57,58 going out and creating those packages you know what I want this package to look 235 00:14:57,59 --> 00:15:00,99 like at the end right and I think it's those types of things that really so 236 00:15:01,00 --> 00:15:02,77 slippery are great and being 237 00:15:02,78 --> 00:15:06,98 a one man band and setting your own stand ups and things like that when I was here 238 00:15:07,87 --> 00:15:12,85 we had to do everything we wanted everything we learned graphics we learned audio 239 00:15:12,97 --> 00:15:16,85 how to run switcher you had to learn all of those things I think in bigger T.V. 240 00:15:16,86 --> 00:15:20,64 Stations when you finally do get to be hands on you don't get that opportunity Yeah 241 00:15:21,22 --> 00:15:25,02 so let's talk about your career then so after you finished your internship with the 242 00:15:25,35 --> 00:15:29,23 pirates affiliate then what happened where did you go from there well I immediately 243 00:15:29,24 --> 00:15:32,84 wonder be in television I knew at that point I didn't want to be on air because of 244 00:15:32,85 --> 00:15:36,84 my experiences and how much I thought with the teleprompter I decided I didn't want 245 00:15:36,85 --> 00:15:40,28 to be on air but I still wanted to stay in the field and I couldn't find 246 00:15:40,29 --> 00:15:42,85 a job in the field. And I stayed with the curve as 247 00:15:42,86 --> 00:15:46,43 a freelance photographer for I don't know just 248 00:15:46,44 --> 00:15:50,19 a few months but it didn't pay enough to be an income I had to just do that for fun 249 00:15:50,20 --> 00:15:51,19 really and then I had 250 00:15:51,20 --> 00:15:56,06 a regular office job and I moved to New Jersey for like five seconds which was too 251 00:15:56,07 --> 00:16:01,31 long and I came back and when I was there it was office work and when I came back 252 00:16:01,32 --> 00:16:05,16 in town my brother was working at the radio station at the time and he told me that 253 00:16:05,17 --> 00:16:06,83 W.T.F. Was hiring for 254 00:16:06,84 --> 00:16:12,41 a photo OG So I went in applied for that position and they told me that there was 255 00:16:12,42 --> 00:16:15,99 a part time master control operator also available paid 256 00:16:16,00 --> 00:16:18,23 a little bit more so I thought hey why not give it 257 00:16:18,24 --> 00:16:22,14 a shot and I'm so glad that I did because it gives me such 258 00:16:22,15 --> 00:16:26,63 a bigger understanding of what I do now and I can say that you know when I had my 259 00:16:26,64 --> 00:16:30,50 education here I did audio and graphics and you know everything that you could 260 00:16:30,51 --> 00:16:31,98 possibly do in camera for 261 00:16:31,99 --> 00:16:35,29 a really long time and then I got to see master control which was 262 00:16:35,30 --> 00:16:39,43 a department that I didn't really know how it worked before basically master 263 00:16:39,44 --> 00:16:42,47 control you monitor what's happening on T.V. 264 00:16:42,48 --> 00:16:46,17 All day long you top up commercial if you take feeds it's 265 00:16:46,22 --> 00:16:50,76 a really really important job and you sound so busy to really getting information 266 00:16:50,77 --> 00:16:52,83 and especially now I work in W.T.F. 267 00:16:52,84 --> 00:16:57,32 And the promotions manager and we have three television stations so for one person 268 00:16:57,33 --> 00:16:59,10 to just sit there and monitor all of them is 269 00:16:59,11 --> 00:17:03,98 a very very big job right and so OK so you started out as master control yes your 270 00:17:03,99 --> 00:17:07,46 control Yes And then how long were you there and then where did you go from there I 271 00:17:07,47 --> 00:17:11,96 was only up there for a few months and there was a part time so there was 272 00:17:11,97 --> 00:17:17,98 a full time position as the sales assistant down in the office and I thought about 273 00:17:17,99 --> 00:17:22,11 it I mean I needed something full time so it wasn't enough to think over it too 274 00:17:22,12 --> 00:17:26,56 much but I went down there and then I got to see that side of the business of sales 275 00:17:26,57 --> 00:17:30,58 and commercial programming and you know the commercial sales which is interesting 276 00:17:30,59 --> 00:17:32,34 because you know that's actually one thing that we don't spend 277 00:17:32,35 --> 00:17:33,75 a whole lot of time here and I was 278 00:17:33,76 --> 00:17:35,59 a liberty student or we didn't I don't know what 279 00:17:35,60 --> 00:17:39,67 a gram is really like now but about the sales side right that was always where I 280 00:17:39,68 --> 00:17:43,84 felt like the weakest. I felt like I knew I could sell right we didn't really do 281 00:17:43,85 --> 00:17:48,94 that anyway continued Yeah well they I was the sales assistant so I ended up being 282 00:17:48,95 --> 00:17:52,03 the system to the general sales manager and helping the sales team with 283 00:17:52,04 --> 00:17:53,82 presentation so I would put together 284 00:17:53,98 --> 00:17:58,53 a package that they would send out to their clients things like that I would help 285 00:17:58,73 --> 00:18:00,07 with orders and there's 286 00:18:00,08 --> 00:18:04,82 a computer different computer systems to help put in orders and I didn't have 287 00:18:04,83 --> 00:18:08,92 enough to fill up my full time job so I started asking the other managers for 288 00:18:08,93 --> 00:18:11,51 things that I could do take off their plate to get free them up 289 00:18:11,52 --> 00:18:15,49 a little bit and I did that for programming and I did it for promotions and for our 290 00:18:15,50 --> 00:18:19,91 traffic department which was how all the spots kind of get married on the blog and 291 00:18:20,31 --> 00:18:24,45 the promotions position became available at first I wasn't sure about it and then I 292 00:18:24,46 --> 00:18:30,32 applied for it and I've been there for seven years now naturalized for five years 293 00:18:30,36 --> 00:18:35,02 while commissions OK So let's talk about that what does that really entailed and 294 00:18:35,06 --> 00:18:38,61 what it what is what is it entails and then what is their contribution to the 295 00:18:38,62 --> 00:18:43,27 station overall I do that position on the promotions manager but I do marketing for 296 00:18:43,28 --> 00:18:45,91 the entire company so a market W.T.R. 297 00:18:45,92 --> 00:18:50,05 Of news and programming I think that's something that slips through the cracks 298 00:18:50,06 --> 00:18:52,74 sometimes because you think of Channel seven W.T.F. 299 00:18:52,75 --> 00:18:57,82 And you think of just our news surely our W.T.R. Of C.B.S. 300 00:18:57,87 --> 00:18:59,25 FOX Ohio Valley and A.B.C. 301 00:18:59,26 --> 00:19:03,56 Ohio Valley so all of that programming belongs to us as well so we're not just 302 00:19:03,57 --> 00:19:06,41 seven news we're big bang theory right now we're C.S.I. 303 00:19:06,45 --> 00:19:11,32 Right where American Idol we have all of these great different shows programming 304 00:19:11,33 --> 00:19:15,64 that we have in our prime and our network and our syndication so I'm responsible 305 00:19:15,76 --> 00:19:19,59 for making everybody aware that that's all happening on all of our networks Wow 306 00:19:19,95 --> 00:19:20,33 that's 307 00:19:20,37 --> 00:19:26,69 a lot. A lot wow she's OK And so how many people are there other people in your 308 00:19:26,70 --> 00:19:29,60 department are you the only one in that department or how does that work I'm the 309 00:19:29,61 --> 00:19:33,75 only one in my department I report directly to our general manager but I work very 310 00:19:33,76 --> 00:19:37,39 closely with news I work very closely with programming and I work very closely with 311 00:19:37,40 --> 00:19:42,03 sales another part of my job is to sponsor different things around the I. Valley OK 312 00:19:42,07 --> 00:19:46,61 so we anytime you see a commercial that comes on and it's and I'm talking about 313 00:19:46,62 --> 00:19:49,06 a nonprofit it's usually one of our on air talent talking about 314 00:19:49,07 --> 00:19:53,96 a nonprofit so that all goes through my department as well and it made me laugh 315 00:19:53,97 --> 00:19:57,52 when you said are you the only person in your department when once once 316 00:19:57,53 --> 00:20:02,37 a year Fox will send us out to like an affiliate marketing meeting and I will talk 317 00:20:02,38 --> 00:20:06,66 to all of these other people that do my job across the country and some of them 318 00:20:06,67 --> 00:20:09,77 have six people that work in their department right that's one record holder and 319 00:20:09,78 --> 00:20:13,86 you're running what four Channel four and there are three OK three in the weapon 320 00:20:14,15 --> 00:20:17,56 and then you there's the Web aspect too you know you manage all of that then yes 321 00:20:17,57 --> 00:20:21,60 well I don't manage our Web site I mean it's the promotion of our website and I've 322 00:20:21,61 --> 00:20:26,19 been working very heavily with social media and getting our Facebook page up to 323 00:20:26,20 --> 00:20:29,39 where it needs to be and it's one of the biggest successes we have going for you 324 00:20:29,40 --> 00:20:34,94 know you track the traffic to the website to see we have somebody you know someone 325 00:20:34,95 --> 00:20:38,29 that when somebody is about department you see like how many people are coming on 326 00:20:38,30 --> 00:20:41,42 their website what they're looking for they're looking for weather or they're 327 00:20:41,43 --> 00:20:46,54 looking for news or what have you yes that's that's really interesting and I think 328 00:20:46,55 --> 00:20:51,37 it's interesting to note too that has in the past and continues to employ West 329 00:20:51,38 --> 00:20:55,79 Liberty graduates I know when I left the area too just like you and when I came 330 00:20:55,80 --> 00:21:01,28 back and you know yourself and. Some other folks that were in our class and I sort 331 00:21:01,29 --> 00:21:06,35 of felt like we were it's Propecia. The first few years that I was back and we're 332 00:21:06,36 --> 00:21:10,19 like I'm like why am i always talking so I just go to Bob it just feels like you 333 00:21:10,20 --> 00:21:13,78 know maybe he really did prepare us for the world we never played out I guess doing 334 00:21:13,79 --> 00:21:16,02 that but it's great when I think you guys are doing 335 00:21:16,03 --> 00:21:20,66 a fantastic job and you know the telephone is coming up and you guys really do 336 00:21:20,67 --> 00:21:25,70 a good job with that for Easter Seals and that's kind of the end of April Yes So. 337 00:21:26,90 --> 00:21:31,51 It's it's great I think that you're you're really involved in the community we're 338 00:21:31,52 --> 00:21:31,58 in 339 00:21:31,59 --> 00:21:36,29 a good location there you know streets so if someone wanted to get in touch with you 340 00:21:36,30 --> 00:21:37,46 regarding one of 341 00:21:37,47 --> 00:21:41,68 a community of them or just to contact you regarding anything for. Motion is what 342 00:21:41,69 --> 00:21:46,76 they do that information's available on our website it's dot com and my email 343 00:21:46,77 --> 00:21:50,29 address is still my maiden name which I've been trying not to call me by my maiden 344 00:21:50,30 --> 00:21:53,38 name but my email address is still Jay Nixon W.T.F. 345 00:21:53,89 --> 00:21:58,09 That's that yeah I have tried OK Trust me I've looked on the drive up and we just 346 00:21:58,10 --> 00:22:02,41 go round and I know your husband see it anyway so I have to say that so you guys 347 00:22:02,42 --> 00:22:02,81 are obviously 348 00:22:02,82 --> 00:22:07,98 a big sports family we are very involved with with local sports and very proud of 349 00:22:07,99 --> 00:22:11,64 us liberty and what they were able to accomplish this year oh yeah I mean having 350 00:22:11,65 --> 00:22:13,84 a national team is huge I mean that is 351 00:22:13,85 --> 00:22:17,11 a really really huge and you know football team was great couple years ago and 352 00:22:17,12 --> 00:22:20,60 hopefully will be again in the future and on this year was just really exciting was 353 00:22:20,61 --> 00:22:26,18 a really exciting ride it was so we can do it again rattler absolutely will thank 354 00:22:26,19 --> 00:22:30,69 you so much for being here as you know you today and talking about come department 355 00:22:30,79 --> 00:22:36,41 when it was. A great year to get to thank you for joining us we will see you next 356 00:22:36,42 --> 00:22:37,72 time with off the help.