HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December 30, 2011 By CourVO Leave a Comment

December 31, 2011…I’ll be ringing in the New Year on the fabulous Las Vegas strip in a live, 2-hour television broadcast from 10pm straight through till midnite.

Oh, and 200,000 of my favorite out-of-town friends will be there, too.

The show will be streamed live on our KLAS-TV website, so feel free to join me and save yourself the hassle of the traffic.

8NewsNow.com

You will not find any big admonitions for New Year’s resolutions here…as they abound this time of year, and mean nothing if you don’t apply the Nike motto:

JUST DO IT!

CourVO

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Everybody Comes to Vegas

June 30, 2010 By CourVO Leave a Comment

Sooner or later, I can count on getting a call from just about anybody saying they’re coming to Vegas.

This last weekend, there was a glut.

My friend Mark Johnson, News Anchor at the Boise NBC Affiliate KTVB had an all-expenses paid trip to Vegas to participate in the national finals of a karoake contest (he does Sinatra). He didn’t make it past the first cut, but we had a fun time partying that evening at mydaughter’s college going-away party.

At the same time, Merlên Hoekstra called. I met Merlên when she was a volunteer at VOICE2008. She attended VOICE2010 in a lesser role about a month ago, but wanted to make sure to look me up when she was in town. Merlên lives in France, but has extensive worldly VO experience, including broadcasting in Japan. She made a point to visit me at the TV station this week.

Just one day later, Randye Kaye sought out a lunch meeting with me. She was in town with her husband, who I discovered was the brother of a friend I knew from church for many years. Small world! They live in Connecticut, and she works at Edge Studio as a coach, while pursuing a successful career in voice-acting in many different niches.

These face-to-face meetups are important. We voiceactors maintain virtual liaisons with a wide spectrum of characters…and the natural curiosity is to (some day) sit across the table and share the same space over a meal or a game of dominos. It doesn’t matter what the backdrop is…the important thing is conversation in the same airspace.

I am blessed by rich relationships with interesting people. I hope I give to them at least as much as they return to me…

CourVO

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Social Media Today | What Vegas Can Teach You About Marketing

January 7, 2010 By CourVO Leave a Comment

via socialmediatoday.com

The marketing that works in Vegas may work for you.

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Mike Ditka

November 17, 2009 By CourVO 1 Comment

I had the pleasure of meeting and introducing Da’ Coach Mike Ditka as the keynote speaker at a fundraising event tonite.

He’s a smart man…not PC, and plenty of common sense.

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Filed Under: Las Vegas, People Tagged With: Mike Ditka

Behind the Scenes During Local TV Weather

August 8, 2009 By CourVO 3 Comments

KLAS-TV Weathercaster Darren Miller makes "the walk" during a newscast.

The viewer NEVER sees this part of the weather segment.

Darren continues to talk while transitioning from the news set to the "green screen"…all the while covered by weather video.

'Just thought you might be interested in seeing something off-cam!

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SkyWitness8 News Helicopter Takes-off From KLAS-TV Helipad

July 27, 2009 By CourVO 2 Comments

Channel-8 KLAS-TV helicopter “Skywitness8″ helicopter takes off from helipad at the station

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A quick peek inside the KLAS-TV control room

July 22, 2009 By CourVO Leave a Comment

…. During the 6pm news 7/22/09

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Sportscast from a different angle

July 17, 2009 By CourVO 1 Comment

What news anchors do during the sportscast on a late newscast 7/17/09…

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NAB Imminent

April 16, 2009 By CourVO Leave a Comment

You know NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Convention is getting close when you start getting e-mails and phone calls from every Bob, John and Cindy you've ever known in the business (and even a few you don't remember).

They all want to remind me that they'll be in town from (time A to time B)…that they'll be staying at "X" Hotel, and when can I have lunch?

Actually, I love that Vegas is home to hundreds of conventions each year…but NAB is close to my heart because, well, I AM a broadcaster, and because many of my friends in VO/VA show up to look at all the equipment on the show floor.

The TV station I work at (KLAS-TV CBS) is only about 3 blocks from the Las Vegas Convention Center, so access is easy, and my credentials always allow for a free press pass.

This year, James Alburger of the VoiceActing Academy has already contacted me about getting together, as have the people of Media Fellowship International, and Joe Klein, the NewMediaGuy, who lives not far away in Bullhead City, AZ. (BTW, James' latest newsletter is reprinted below the fold, if you'd like to see).

NAB is one of the bigger conventions of the year for Las Vegas, but it's diminished steadily in recent years, along with the fortunes of traditional broadcast media outlets in general. Now, with the economic downturn, frugality, bottom-line concepts, and cost-saving will be a theme in many of the forums, symposia, and even on the show floor.

Interestingly, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitor's Authority which runs the Convention Center and spends millions to market Las Vegas to the rest of the world, just renewed its contract with local Ad Agency R&R Partners, the people who thought up the memorable "What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas" slogan. They re-upped for the next 3 years, at $92-million A YEAR! Their next ad campaign better be a doozie!

I've also had a couple of feelers from voiceactors who are coming or accompanying their spouses, and want to know of a good studio, or can-I-help-with-arrangements-if-I-need-to-cut-audio questions. Yes. Call me. You can use my studiio. I have ISDN and Source-Connect, but you have to stand. I don't have a chair.

CourVO

C-E-S Approaches

January 7, 2009 By CourVO Leave a Comment

There used to be COMDEX…and it was everything.

But it went away.

Now the second cousin to COMDEX – CES (Consumer Electronics Show) — is the top dog in a town that yawns at most big conventions. Because of the down economy, the city is drooling at the estimated 130,000 spenders headed here.

But in general Las Vegans are a bit miffed at CES. They're as big a fans of new gizmos as anybody. CES brings it all right to their door, but the public can't attend. Years ago, the exhibitors would just dump all their wares on any local who could wrangle access to the convention center floor. Then retailers got tired of that, so a city ordinance prevents the practice.

Thursday the fun begins. Try…go ahead, just try to get to every exhibit in the 4-day show. Only a triathele can achieve it. So you rely on the cadre of journalist, bloggers, tweeters, and rumor-mongers to disseminate their version of things.

Most serious attendees have an agenda, a map, a good pair of walking shoes, and (if they're smart) a focus. That way, they might achieve the networking, sales, client-finding, and liaisons they'd hoped for.

As a working journalist in Las Vegas, I can get easy access. I also know where to park, and what entrance to use…and STILL going to CES is a challenge. It's just so…BIG.

Honestly, the whole scene is analogous to a major football game in your town. Sure, you could go and buck the crowds, get beer spilled on you, and freeze your touche off. Or you could sit at home and see the best angles on TV, and read the best reviews on the internet.

I guess it comes down to whether you like to be a real participant or not. I'm going to dive in. But my dogs will be tired at the end of the day, and I'll have a big plastic shopping bag full of promotional ball-points, advertising flyers, maybe a lite CD version of some software program, and if I'm lucky, a Sony T-shirt.

COMDEX was no better.

CourVO