We have just begun to touch upon broadcast media in our
Journalism 120 class and it has struck me, and I’m sure others as well, just
how different writing for broadcast is from print journalism.
One of these aspects is the “split script” that conveys both
what appears in video on one side, and audio on the other.
That being said, it has led me to appreciate the ability of
certain TV personality’s ability to read from teleprompters in a way that leads
us to forget that they are reading at all.
Of course, the ability to flawlessly read from teleprompters
is not just reserved for TV journalists.
(This begins my
awkward transition into an article about Regis Philbin.)
Regis Philbin is not a journalist by trade, but an entertainer,
and he has amassed more on-air screen time than anybody else on record with 16,700
hours on television.
Now, after over fifty years in show business, Philbin is
retiring from his long-running morning show, LIVE! with Regis & Kelly.
What is amazing about such a long career in show business, is
the long list of luminaries Philbin has been able to work with, from Joey
Bishop, to Jack Paar (I will now wait for you kids to Google those names).
Waiting…
Waiting…
Pretty
impressive, huh?
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