This week in Studio
Monday starts early with a visit from Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Jari Askins. We have an upcoming series with notable Oklahoma public figures about what they are thankful for. Askins will tape her segment at 8 am on Monday.
Wayne Coyne returns later Monday morning.
The Flaming Lips’ front man will be promoting their New Year’s Eve bash at the Cox Center: The Flaming Lips’ New Year’s Eve Freakout 2008/2009.
I believe Coyne will tape a commercial and a Wimgo Project. Possibly more. He may not have time.
Whatever we get, it will be fun. It always is with Coyne.
Thunder wins, hear how
Damon Fontenot was on the scene Friday night as the OKC Thunder thumped Toronto.
Fontenot filed two videos, as we typically do from the Thunder games. We tape the post game press conference and grab The Oklahoman’s reporters for a post game analysis piece. The analysis is sponsored by Jackie Cooper BMW. And we thank them for that.
Soldiers, in their words
Tanner Herriott shot a collection of Fort Sill soldier interviews at Will Rogers World Airport this morning.
Instead of the usual man-on-camera-watch-him-talk, Tanner captured soldiers’ conversations about leaving training for their various corners of the nation.
The shooting required a lot of cut-aways and b-roll shots. The result places you at the scene, people-watching at the airport as people talk or wait in line or check baggage.
Flights resume at Will Rogers
On Thursday, we posted two videos about travel delays at the airport due to fog: Fog closes Will Rogers to incoming flights and Fog in OKC (catchy headline, eh?) . This morning, NewsOK.tv’s Tanner Herriott was at Will Rogers World Airport as soldiers returned home for the holidays.
And holiday travel has resumed.
Tanner’s video will post later today. Here’s the accompanying story from Brian Sargent on NewsOK:
About 420 solders from Fort Sill are scheduled to leave from Will Rogers World Airport today for two weeks of holiday leave. Soldiers also are departing from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
About 2,700 soldiers from Fort Sill’s 434th Field Artillery Brigade are participating in the annual event, commonly known as ‘exodus’ or winter block leave, fort spokeswoman Emily Kelley said.
“I told my family all I wanted for Christmas was to come home,” said National Guard Pvt. 2nd Class Joshua Bliss.
Bliss, 23, hasn’t seen his family in Columbia, S.C., in about three months. He said he is looking forward to spending time with his family, especially his wife and 2-year-old daughter.
We taped four videos this morning in the OPUBCO Studios. Ed Kelley’s Oklahoma Matters commentary was about Pete Maravich. He was there to watch Pistol Pete’s performance at the State Fair Arena in 1968.
We also taped two entertainment videos Weekend Look with George Lang and Heather Warlick (who uses some festive font colors in her latest post) and TV Talk with Penny Soldan and Heather Warlick.
And we just wrapped up the daily energy update. It usually airs live at 2 pm. Yesterday, Oklahoma House Speaker Chris Benge spoke about touring an Arkansas nuclear plant, so we included a clip from Benge.
NewsOK video gets a facelift
Why the redesign? We produce 10-15 videos most days. They quickly rotate off the NewsOK home page. So the video landing page needed updating to better showcase the video library we’re growing.
Highlights:
- Featured videos up top. We have four of them.
- Latest or most recent videos are listed in order beneath the featured videos.
- Programming grid. On the right side of the video page you’ll find today’s programming. All of the videos on this page are taped, so the times you see are when we expect the videos to be posted online.
Clicking on the navigation will take you to specific video topics: news, business, sports, etc. On those pages, you’ll find (what else?) videos about news or sports or business, starting with the most recent up top in the play area and continuing with more videos down below. In the middle are the most popular videos as clicked on by you the user.
We also gave the video templates a new look. It’s much more like a YouTube video page. On the right side of each individual video, you’ll find related articles and related videos for more browsing.
All State Football and lobster
The Oklahoman will unveil its All-State High School Football team in a couple weeks. Each of the players taped a brief Q&A with Ryan Aber this afternoon.
So we had 20-25 high school kids in football jerseys, shuffling in and out of the 7th floor, while three ladies waited patiently in our green room for a 4 pm taping of Parties Extra with Helen Ford Wallace. To talk lobster.
Kanela Huff, Pam Smith and Rawsie Boyles are here today to tell us about Pam’s birthday party which is always at Kanela’s home and Rawsie cooks the very fabulous lobsters which are served with all the condiments.
And the ladies did talk lobsters and parties. Helen does a great job moderating these interviews. She brings the spirit and the enthusiasm into each interview. And she’s prepared.
I think the audience can always tell when a host is prepared and if a host is interested in the interview. Helen is always prepared and interested.
And early. Which was a bit unfortunate today since we ran long with the football interviews.
So she got to watch the Jenks and Union football players talk about their seasons and where they plan to play next year. Ryan did a great job with each interview, rattling off their stats and asking specific questions to each player. All while Helen and her girls “partied” (or reminisced) in the green room. I hope the water was tasty.
Billy Sims apologizes
Angi Bruss and I knocked up some quick Sooner headlines today. It’s a “format” you’ll be seeing more soon.
The video page on NewsOK will receive a new look, likely later this week. Angi and I will showcase various videos you should pay attention to, watch, know about, laugh at, or whatever.
We churn out about 10-15 videos a day. Unfortunately some good stuff rotates off the home page pretty quickly sometimes. The redesign aims to present video in an easy to use manner, but also to showcase our better stuff.
Live, streaming traffic video
We put up a live stream of the Broadway Extension traffic today. Mostly to see if there were delays for the morning drive, and the evening. Traffic didn’t seem to be slowing much after 9 a.m.
Here’s a screen cap of the view, just south of Britton Road off Broadway Extension. We used Mogulus to stream the video. A Sony HVR to handle the image captures…
ElfYourself
Sometimes you just need to have some fun. And laugh at, I mean, with your co-workers.
Check it out for yourself, you elf…
Another Starbucks closes down
This one, near the office. Starbucks at Britton and Broadway, diagonally across from The Oklahoman, is closing this week.
