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Driving on the tarmac. How often do you get to drive in front of huge UPS jets loading up (including the latest vaccine from J&J)? News takes you to interesting places, doesn't it?

Webcasting - Do you realize what you're doing? When I am with a network crew and we're preparing for our correspondent to go live, we all know it's a critical moment that has to go right - Live TV. That's what you're doing. When you webcast, you are doing live TV, too. I can only hope you will continue to focus on what will improve your live TV moment - we are critical of our camera placement, the background, how the picture is composed with our correspondent. We add lights to improve the light on our correspondent in relationship to the background (is the background too bright?).
We are careful with the microphones we use, especially if we are fighting background sounds/noise.
We prepare one or two hours before the first live event, aka live hit.
I just hope you can take some of these same steps in your "live TV", your webcasting, at home or at the office. Maybe look at each of these to see if one can be improved?

Hensen honored. The NAB is not meeting in person, but they are honoring Jim Hensen who first started broadcasting in Washington DC with his puppets. I know, because I lived outside in Falls Church and I watched those early renditions of his show on B&W television. I liked it so much, my mother bought me a rubber puppet, available locally, of one of the blobby, muppet characters (not Kermit) that one wore over your hand. If only I still owned that item from his first few years! I remember it making your hand sweat, since it was non-breathing rubber!
Here is the notice from NAB Express:

Kermit the Frog Guest Appearance
In honor of Jim Henson, the artist, innovator and visionary creator of the Muppets, receiving NAB’s Distinguished Service Award, Kermit the Frog will join Henson’s children Brian Henson and Lisa Henson to celebrate significant and lasting contributions Henson made to the broadcast industry.

Tune in Wednesday, May 13 at 12 p.m. ET.
You must register to view at nabshowexpress.com