Bathrat
02-01-2008, 09:53 AM
So I work in television as an editor at a local ABC affiliate, and one of my friends I went to University with also went into tv, but he works at a FOX affiliate in production.
Anyway, I work night shifts and he works morning shifts, and sometimes we visit eachother at our respective stations.
Well this morning I went over to visit him at the Fox station just to help him out with script running and guests (menial leg work basically). And so round about the time his shift is coming to an end one of the producers tells my friend that one of the football players from our local NFL team is at the station for an interview and my friend is a HUGE football fan, so he decides it would be cool to meet him.
So I tag along with him to the courtyard area where they were doing an outside interview because I thought it would be cool just to meet a pro athlete and local celeb.
We get over there and we see him standing next to the reporter talking, thinking that they were prepping for the interview, so we walk over, my friend says hi and shakes his hand and then suddenly he turns and pushes me back into the building.
I'm thinking "wait a minute, I want to meet him too", and then he tells me that we just walked into the actual interview itself being broadcast LIVE on tv
we couldn't help but laugh about it later because we were clearly in the shot - we just walked on camera and my buddy shook his hand while he was in the middle of answering a question
Anyway, I work night shifts and he works morning shifts, and sometimes we visit eachother at our respective stations.
Well this morning I went over to visit him at the Fox station just to help him out with script running and guests (menial leg work basically). And so round about the time his shift is coming to an end one of the producers tells my friend that one of the football players from our local NFL team is at the station for an interview and my friend is a HUGE football fan, so he decides it would be cool to meet him.
So I tag along with him to the courtyard area where they were doing an outside interview because I thought it would be cool just to meet a pro athlete and local celeb.
We get over there and we see him standing next to the reporter talking, thinking that they were prepping for the interview, so we walk over, my friend says hi and shakes his hand and then suddenly he turns and pushes me back into the building.
I'm thinking "wait a minute, I want to meet him too", and then he tells me that we just walked into the actual interview itself being broadcast LIVE on tv
we couldn't help but laugh about it later because we were clearly in the shot - we just walked on camera and my buddy shook his hand while he was in the middle of answering a question