After 55 years, the weekly television show called Newsroom shut down recently at Northern California’s public media company, KQED. The program operated under a variety of names over the years, including This Week in Northern California and Newspaper of the Air.
Many fine people worked at the show over the years. I served as a supervising executive of Newsroom for several years until my retirement.
As a tiny remembrance, the following post is from seven years ago.
My friend Wei visited KQED this week. We needed a "host" for a fake show as we were trying out a new table on the set. She happily played the role. She so charmed the "guests" (crew members) that what was supposed to be a ten-minute session went on for over an hour.
Filming a TV show with a panel of guests is all about camera angles. That is what we practiced with Wei.
We’ll film the actual show soon. This one was only make-believe.
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p.s. R.I.P. Newsroom.
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