Let's End This Trip

      Today was fabulous(yes I enjoyed NY on the last day!) We started the morning with free breaky at the hotel and watched one of WNET's television programs called Need To Know. After this we went and had an exciting talk with Marc Rosenwasser who is an executive producer at PBS. He also produced the show we watched at the hotel that morning. 

      He has had a long career working in production on television, from ABC to NBC to CBS and then PBS he has lived just about every minute of it. He loves his job and says the topic change is always constant and is learning and seeing the world everyday.Very insightful even to those of us not going into broadcasting (which I have been increasingly curious about over this trip with CBS and not WNET). He explained that is his job there is no room for error. You have to be ready all the time! He gave us similar advice as the NYT did "find something that you love, because you want to work somewhere you hate". He said to constantly be thinking about where you want to be, 5 or 10 years from now and don't lose sight of that goal, start anywhere, but start at the very bottom and you will make it. Be persistent and you are allowed to take chances in this industry. While we asked him about where he thinks broadcasting is going to explained that it still has a place in the media, but it is becoming more of independent broadcasting then a team effort. Many broadcasters will pitch a story themselves, write the script, go out and get the story, do the camera work (in front and behind) bring it to the studio and edit it as well. It seems amazing to me, that multi-media has just simply grown into a huge industry and makes me want to know everything, about... everything! 

      We also beifly talked about funding for PBS there are four parts to it: the viewers, foundation, the government (13%) and corporate. This means it is a hybrid broadcast so they can have ads but cannot directly sell things. The ads you do see aren't selling things, but they are creating a positive image for their company or product which means it is still beneficial. PBS is seen as an educational program (and it is) so this just enhances a company/product image being viewed on PBS/WNET. 

       After Marc left us we were then able to talk to the two men in the editors room who edit each week for Things To Know. They were hilarious and engaging joking with us and each other they made their job seem very fun. However, they also explain to us what they really do and how hard they do work to edit each piece to fit and run smoothly.
Then we got to see the production area where employees sit behind cameras that are technically 16 blocks away at a separate location. The employees monitor each show, and decide which camera shows what, when and at what angle. Really interesting stuff!!

       Unfortunately Steph felt awful (I guess we swapped issues from the previous day) during the visit so Kimberly and I took a taxi with Sabrina (also feeling under the weather) back to the hotel. Steph and I went to the food emporium – a grocery store and got some comfort food; clearly anticipating home time tomorrow. We mowed down at the hotel on some crackers, pita bread with spinach dip, and Steph got cheese. We also had a jar of pickles that we honestly had wanted since the day we left Canada, however, they just weren't the same. No Valasic pickles here apparently. So we took an easy afternoon before realizing we had to leave the next day... After this we both felt a bit better and decided to go for a walk and ended up buying some final souvenirs for our friends and fam jams. We took some cool pics of Time Square Finally then back to the hotel for the final night!! 

Broadway Shows!! 

Time Square.

Crazy Big Billboards

M&M's this made me think of my sister Emma and I stopped into the Hershey store in time square to snag her some delicious chocolates I know she will enjoy! 

Can I go home now?!