Dissolve up, and cue!

When watching the news, sporting events, etc., I loved it when they’d give us a camera shot of what was going on “behind the scenes.”

I remember when SportsCenter did this a few times a while back, broadcasting the show you would normally see on ESPN, while a whole “behind the scenes” episode was airing simultaneously on ESPN2.

While working at CatchItKansas and KWCH isn’t quite as a big of a production as ESPN, there’s still plenty of things going on behind the scenes.

During the airing of the CIK shows on Friday nights, things get a little crazy. Videos coming in from all over the place, scripts to be written for all of those highlights, and making sure Bruce makes it to his chair in time for the show.

Among other things I’m usually in charge of putting together the 5-Star Performance highlights and script for the show, and a lot of times we don’t settle on our choice until sometime right before the show or during it. So we’re scrambling to pull the best highlights for that player and working to come up with a script all against the clock.

We try to keep it pretty laid back most of the time, but when it comes to game days, you never know what to expect and that’s what makes this job so much fun.

There are a lot of working pieces that have to be in place to make the shows go smoothly, several that never get seen on your TV screen, but it’s worth it when you see the final product or your highlights come across the tube.

Everyone has questions about what goes on behind the scenes, wondering who’s pushing the buttons to make the highlights roll, or how we get video edited in time for the show when the game just ended 20 minutes ago.

So my question to you…what do you want to know about the inner workings of CatchItKansas. Hopefully I’ll be able to help you out.