Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Ray Smith: Chief Engineer



In his isolated corner office krcr chief engineer Ray Smith computes away at the technical problems with the station. The analog to digital conversion and broadcast technology itself is very challenging, Ray and his team do their very best to keep us on air.

Monday, December 28, 2009

West Redding Church Burns

Redding Fellowship Church on lake blvd caught fire around 6:00pm this evening, the chuch was vacant, and nobody was inside the the fire dept. had 26 firefighters at the scene and just about every engine in the city. The fire started in the smaller building (500 sqft) and the spread into the larger fellowship hall. Both buildings are still standing but destroyed and the police had one guy that they were questioning, the building had a "for sale" sign on the door. Nobody was hurt.

Post Show Meeting


Jennifer listens to our production staff in our post show meetings about issues and problems that took place in the 5:00pm and 5:30pm shows . We have these meetings after every show! we discuss how we can fix the problems (technical or non-technical) so that we don't run into the same problems in the later shows. Jennifer is the boss of the newsroom and also anchors the 5:00pm 5:30pm shows daily.

New Reporter Jackie Ochoa


Channel 7's newest reporter Jackie Ochoa "fronts" her story in the studio. When a reporter "fronts" a story that means the reporter
introduces their story they did that day LIVE! This can be very difficult because a number of things could go wrong, you gotta be ready for anything. Next to going live in the field this is probably the most difficult part of being a "on camera reporter"