So You Want to Work in TV
My Life in TV
My Life in TV Ch 9: Floor Managing, Pop Music Moguls & TV Chaos
The continuing saga of my life in television (and what I learnt from it…) Still in Rathbone Place, behind London’s Oxford Street, securely nestled between The Bricklayers and The Wheatsheaf pubs, the drinking, television production and media education continues. Employed by Music Box, making pop music programmes, I volunteer my services for a new commission [...]
My Life in TV Chapter 8: DJs, VJs and Music TV
Down the stairs and across the corridor from Super Channel was Music Box, a 24-hour cable and satellite TV channel that broadcast popular music programmes – much like MTV (it was launched only three years after MTV). It was taken over by Richard Branson’s Virgin Vision in 1983. I well remember the day Richard came [...]
My Life in Television Chapter 7: Launching a New TV Channel
So far my television career in South Africa had encompassed assistant producing, directing filmed inserts, presenting, floor managing and reading the news on national radio but now that I had returned home to the UK I pretty much had to start all over again. The problem with starting your media education in one country and [...]
My Life in Television Chapter 6: How I became a Television Presenter
Getting on the television as a reporter and presenter just seemed to happen. While I was interested in all parts of the media I had never really seen on-screen presenting as my main goal. But given that the inspiration for my life in television came from my high profile television-presenting godmother it was bound to [...]
My Life in Television Chapter 5: Floor Managing, Moon Lighting & News Reading
So – I am in telly production, learning a lot from a weekly live factual entertainment show, meeting famous people in the studio, working hard and loving it. But as always office politics intervenes. Politics is a way of life in any organisation – once a large-ish group of people are put together and put [...]
My Life in Television (and what I learnt along the way…) Chapter 4: My First Job in TV.
In Johannesburg, South Africa, broke and no ticket home the first priority was a job. No work visa led me to the obvious places and I got a waitressing job in Hillbrow (akin to London’s Soho area then – a no-go area now!). An advert for Production Assistants at the South African Broadcasting Corporation caught [...]
My Life in Television (and what I learnt along the way) Chapter 3: Backpacking Journalism
(Previously on ‘My Life in Television’ - http://wanttoworkintelevision.wordpress.com/category/my-life-in-television-and-what-i-learnt-from-it/) So my Americas jaunt finally came to an end and I returned to the UK to look for a proper job. You didn’t just walk into TV jobs even in those olden days so I got myself some temporary secretarial work. My mother was a great one for [...]
My Life in Television (and what I learnt along the way…) Chapter One
A new strand for this blog – all about ME! Well, there’s nothing like experience for teaching you things and while I’m enjoying talking about myself, you may pick up the odd idea on what to do – or more likely what NOT to do – in television! I can assure you it’s mostly an account of [...]
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