Well CBI awards will be announced one week from today in Austin, Texas at the annual National Student Media Conference. KBVR will be sending a deligation to Austin to take part. Unfortunatly I will not be headed south this year, but am sending co creator Allie Strauss. We hope to have a post up here as soon as the results are announced! The award’s ceremony is scheduled for Friday, Oct 30th at 3:30pm. The Beaver Sports show is a finalist in two categories. The first being “Best Sportscast” and the second, “Best News Reporting.” The reporting story is for the package I put together on the OSU Gymnastics team’s annual “Pink Out” last fall.
In the next few weeks this blog will begin to make a change… I have moved on from KBVR and the BSS to take a job as the morning news producer at KTVZ in Bend, OR. I have not decided what I am going to do with the blog, but will hopefully think of something in the next few days! Don’t forget to check back here next week to find if the BSS has brought the top prize!
As the new term gears up for many Oregon State students the Beaver Sports Show is wrapping up the TV awards season. In August the College Broadcasters Inc. announced the annual National Student Media Production finalists which the BSS was among two categories. As we patiently wait for Oct. 30th when the winners will be announced we have found out the show won three state awards at the annual Oregon Association of Broadcasters convention in Bend, OR. The sports show was recognized in the categories of “Best Photography,” “Best Single Sports Story,” and “Best Single News Story,” congratulations to all the members of the team who put in the hours to make the show what it is and the many successes that have come from their work!
I remember a quote from an interview that I did for a story “the amount of luck you have depends on how hard you work, the harder you work, the more luck you’ll have.” I can’t remember who exactly said that but it has stuck with me ever since I heard it. I have been blessed with a lot of good things over the past year, being a national finalist in the CBI competition, getting to go to Vegas and intern at the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention, standing on the sidelines as the Oregon State football team defeated USC for the second time in three years, watching Tasha Smith score a perfect 10 on the floor exercise in gymnastics. As I think about all the great things that have come my way, I have to stop and think, where will I go next? As I wonder what the future might hold I have to thank all the people that have helped me to get where I am now. The one person that deserves the most praise is a teacher that I never had a class from in high school, but who encourage me to start doing stuff in video productions. Jason Ritter got the ball rolling and pushed me learn how to edit video and how to be innovative with video productions, without that push towards video production I honestly don’t know where I would be today. It is so cool and amazing to think how just one person in your life at the right time can inspire you and help shape your future… Ritter! if your reading this… THANK YOU! I know I am just getting started with my career in television… 6 years going strong! but have some advice of my own… Take your life and run with it! It’s yours, and you are the only one that can make it the way you want, people may influence you from time to time, be sure to stop and ponder what way their ideas might take you! You never know where an idea might lead you! (That’s Bill Plante, Jennifer Waletich and I, at the NAB Show in Las Vegas in the picture)!!
The final episode of the Beaver Sports Show that I will both produce, and host is on it’s way, and will go out with a bang! This week on the show we will sit down with former OSU Gymnast Jami Lanz and talk with her about the season and what she has planned for her future. Also we will head to the Willamette River and check in with the Men’s and Women’s crew teams as they prepare for Nationals in the coming weeks. Sports show reporter Hayley Watson will highlight OSU Rower David Weir who balances his time between school, rowing, and being a firefighter. Those stories and so much more are set to air this Tuesday night @ 7:30 on Ch. 26 in Corvallis, you can also catch the show streaming live at the same time on KBVR.com
Production has begun for the 23rd episode of “The Beaver Sports Show!” The show that is set to air on a new night this term (Tuesdays @ 7:30) will feature a sit down talk with OSU Basketball player Josh Tarver about his experiences with Head Coach Craig Robinson and his experience being apart of the first team since Gary Payton was a Beaver to win 5 post season games!
The Beaver Sports Show is gearing up for the final term of production for the ’08-’09 school year. Watching this term you will notice a few changes, co-host Kalena Bell will not be joining us this spring as she has secured an internship with FSN in Seattle! We will miss Kalena dearly and wish her the best of luck in her new ventures! Taking Kalena’s place as co-host is Allie Strauss. Allie has been with the show since it began and has contributed many outstanding stories. We look forward to seeing what she can bring to the show as a co-host.
The Sports Show finished up the winter term with a bang with one of the best shows to date. Next term we will be changing things up a bit with an All-Star cast and crew! You will see a few new faces and some old ones from previous terms as I enter my final term as producer of the Beaver Sports Show. We are also gearing up and trying to make the show as clean as possible in preperation for the College Broadcasters Inc. National Student Media Awards. We are in the process of building new graphics and a news show logo! We hope with these new improvements that the show will be taken to the next level! We will also be making some small changes to the instudio portions, it is also a goal of ours to make some more live stand ups with in the show this term! Hopefully with these changes made we will be able to bring home the title of the nations best sports cast award!
This past week and weekend seemed to be a big week for the cast and crew of the beaver sports show with a few of us getting the some professional experience. As the Golden Bears of Cal took on the UCLA Bruins sports show co-host Kalena Bell got the chance to work with ESPN again as a production assistant. Kalena left last Thursday and had the opportunity to make connections with many of the house hold names in the business. I was fortunate to get the chance to sit in with the Portland Trail Blazers TV Production team as they produced the Portland - San Antonio game! I feel we both can agree that these experiences will help further our career not only by seeing how things are done and the many different stages that a production has but being able to make the connections that could help us further our careers. Sports Show reporter Brittany Ornelas is also making strides to further her career as she has been working as an intern for the Portland Trail Blazers. This opportunity has allowed her to make many valuable connections with in the media industry. It was not just a good weekend for the host of the Beaver Sports Show but one of our reporters made her debut inside Gill Coliseum at the women’s gymnastics meet. Olivia Vivian made her first appearance inside Legendary Gill on the bars as the beavers took on UCLA. Vivian posted a 9.75 on the event to help the beavers break the 49.0 mark in the event. You soon will be seeing three of the sports show cast on OSUBeavers.com; Kalena, Brittany, and I will be covering the 2009 Football spring practices for Beaver Nation Online. You will be able to catch our stories on the Oregon State athletics page as well as on the Beaver Sports show! And finally Jennifer Waletich, Kelena and I will be traveling to Las Vegas in April to help out at the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters annual convention. This trip is made possible by the New Media Communications (NMC) department, each year NMC takes about 5 students to help out at the convention. We will be trying our best to bring you the latest in OSU athletics as we try an improve on our own skills as broadcasters, well as always see you on the other side of the screen.
The final show of winter term is on its way with taping starting tonight at the Women’s Gymnastics meet… Also next week on the show we will test the knowledge of the people who make the history at osu, the oregon state student athletes. We will also catch up with the women’s basketball team as the compete in the final civil war match up of the season at home. And Jennifer Waletich will highlight the career of Gymnast D’Anna Piro and what her future holds. Those stories and much more this coming Thursday night on the final episode of winter term.
