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[00:00:00] Speaker A: The best insight, instant feedback, accountability. The all new Talk Radio Freedom 106.5.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: Good morning.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: You're hearing yourself.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: I am not hearing myself.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: You're not hearing yourself. Okay, hearing yourself better now maybe. Yes, you could just tilt your mic. It could tilt right down to you.
[00:00:19] Speaker C: Good, got it.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: I'm hearing myself.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Jesse, you could raise yours if you need to.
It could raise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. You could get it up there now. I mean, let's, let's take a look at what, at this story and Again, happy anniversary, guys. 21 years.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: Thank you so much.
[00:00:34] Speaker A: CNC3 news anchors, I mean, in your respective rights, we see you guys on the television all the time and now you're sitting in the studio. You know, Ryan ran in here a few moments ago and gave us his journey, the start of his day. And I'm very curious to find out about you, yours as well, both of you. Because as I mentioned to Ryan, a lot of persons have the perception that you guys just show up an hour before.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Oh, biggest misconception about CNC3 news anchors. There are some anchors who do that at other stations. Maybe not yet.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, Ryan just painted a very, very dark picture. And I say the word dark because I was waiting for the ice cream run, the invitation that I got last week, Saturday for a wedding reception, the birthday party that I had to go to. And I didn't get that. You know, all I got was what takes place in those numerous meetings you all have throughout the day at strategic times on teams, the setting of stories. And while that is happening in those meetings, stories are still being written, the website is updated regularly. You all are on top of breaking stories. And then there's the assignment chart. I'm just paraphrasing what he said. And then even when you guys are presenting and anchoring the news, there are stories you yourself had to come at the right and get it passed by the editors. And while that is happening, you have to also read the other stories and then get to make up the whole nine yards.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: So yes, Ryan did a great job.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Well, Ryan, talk. Ryan is my boy, Ryan running in. So I am asking you, Rhea, as you share this thing, tell me about that journey, that 21 years, how long you have been here at Guardian Media, the transitions you would have seen throughout the years.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I've been here for 15 years and you know, I really taking the baton from some fantastic foundation builders, people who laid the blocks for us here coming in from the start. 21 years ago, you know, we had a Great foundation. We're taking it. And we are moving forward to be just, you know, more innovative, raising the standard, maintaining a standard of excellence that was, you know, laid before us. And it's by no means an easy job.
As Ryan would have probably explained in much detail. This is a 24, 7 job. 365 days for the year.
Listen, like I was telling, you know, listeners on Slam that yes there was a public holiday, but we had teams in the field covering the national awards, you know, the impact of the weather, all these things, putting together our newscast, putting together our newspaper, trying to get everything out, bringing you information, verified, incredible information every single day. So news never sleeps. And as a result we are always connected, always plugged in and you know, news never sleeps.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: I mean you in the sporting arena, I know, let's get what your day is like, you know, when you wake up.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: So, you know, the thing is, it's quite similar actually and persons may have a different perception about what sports journalism entails, but it's quite similar to news. You know, it's not just about the games or the matches being played. You know, there are so many issues and sport connects to people in so many different ways. You know, as a socio economic vehicle, as you guys would know, you know, there's a deep connection between sport and culture.
And so keeping on top of things is beyond the scores or the stats in a match. You know, we have to constantly understand the atmosphere that is surrounding, you know, our national teams especially because what we do is we place a huge focus on national teams at CNC3 and Guardian Media Limited and Youth Development.
And so there's always a story, there's always something happening.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: You know what I find very interesting in what you just said is that it's outside of keeping score, so you have issues with the coach. So if the coach end up in a fraca somewhere and he was arrested, if there was a match fixing somewhere that you know, an investigative story is developing that is also part of sport.
[00:05:06] Speaker C: There's so much happening behind the scenes, behind just behind just the score lines or you know, the performances of an athlete or a team.
As you mentioned right now the rave is something called safeguarding, which has recently been implemented on a global scale.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: What is the safeguarding?
[00:05:26] Speaker C: So safeguarding relates to the protection of athletes in their environment. So ensuring that teams, national associations, clubs, what have you form environments where players are not abused, whether that be verbally, whether that be physically, etc. And so there are now strict policies implemented by these organizations that these clubs, etc have to follow, you know, to ensure the safety of their athletes. To ensure, especially when it comes to youth, youth sport or youth in sport, you know, to ensure that athletes are not, as I said, you know, abused or taken advantage of.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: All that makes a part of sports stories that you represent, part of sports journalism and sport coverage. You know, Rhea, and let me turn my attention back to you. I always like the story as to how you got into the business, how you got where you are. For me personally, what I studied in school, if I had followed that path, I would have been an architect. I had loved drafting. I was very, very good at it. And that was the T square and the table. Now they're drawing the blueprints on his computer. I would have learned that system as well. Also. Becoming a pilot was a big thing for me. Going to school, I had the opportunity to get my ppl, but I had to work and pay. But, you know, family came, couldn't get a commercial. But the point is, Jess was not in the cards.
Being a radio presenter today, holding down and anchoring a morning program was never something that I dreamed of doing.
You know, I understood the assignment when I got into urban radio just about 19 years ago, that I'm only going to live in that space for a period of time. Because those people I was listening to me on those urban networks, they grew up and there's a new generation there, there's new DJs, new announcers. And for me to stay relevant, I had to get myself educated, pay attention, read more, and put myself in a position where I can now do this type of show. So did you accidentally fall into this or was this something that you're shot for from university? I'm going to be a journalist.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: I would say from school days, I always wanted to pursue law, but I didn't really make the grades for it. And in trying to figure out then, well, how do I pivot? It was really my dad who said, you're kind of good at writing.
And he was the one who identified that skill in me to say, if this is your strength, then it's time for you to probably pursue studies in journalism. And he pushed me to go to Kostat when all my friends were going to ue. And I had to take that brave step to kind of break away from everybody else and say, oh my God, I have to. To take a different pathway. And in studying journalism, that was from my very first semester, was when I realized this is something I could be good at. Because my lecturers in just the very first Semester started to see something in me, and they started to push me and decided to say, listen, you can do this. We see something there. We need to get you into the radio stations, get you onto television. And they. And they really worked with me. And by the end of my associates at Costati, I got a job at television in a television station, a smaller one. But it was a good foundation for us, for me in particular. And I worked there for several years. And then CNC3 came calling.
[00:08:54] Speaker A: Look at that.
I don't know about you, Jassy. I had to come and knock, you know, CNC3, pick up the phone and call her.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Believe it or not, I had. At the end of my studies at Costa, I had applied to CNC3 and another station, right. I applied to 2 and I got the job at CNC3.
But I didn't hear from them again, so I went to the other station. So it was fate. It was fate to come back here several years later. When they came back, more experience. I definitely had wealth of knowledge and, you know, more courage.
I think your caliber of being that kind of journalist here at CMC3, you were just so much more solidified in how you approach your work.
So by the time I came here, I was ready.
Spent a few years being a senior reporter journalist. I listen, I hit this field running. I covered stories all across Trinidad and Tobago for probably the better part of eight to 10 years.
[00:09:58] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:58] Speaker B: And it was, you know, from at that point, I went on to become senior producer of the 7pm newscast.
And while producing the newscast, I had the opportunity to become anchor as well. And while doing that, I also moved on to become lead editor of broadcast, which is basically a position that helps to manage all of our television products that you see. So from the morning brew, the midday news, 7pm, the weekend news, the hourly headlines, our election shows, budget shows, show, show, show, you name it.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: I gonna butter you up a little bit because I looking for my audition. All right, I know I threw my hat in there and then this morning show came on me. But I'm still very much interested and I have been paying attention, you know, and as I mentioned that I want to switch to you very quickly. Who was the person that you would have been looking at on television and say, you know what? I could do that job.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: So, I mean, I always look back at it as being a blessing to me. You know, I grew up looking at Roger Sant on television as this, as the sport anchor.
Back in those days, he was at TV6. And so when I applied here, And I got the opportunity to work under Roger Sand. He was the head of sport at the time. And, you know, I just look back at that with, with so much grace and humility because, you know, to see somebody that you, that you look up to and want to emulate and then have that opportunity to work directly with them is, Is nothing short of a blessing. Roger was really a, a guiding light for me because I was a young journalist at this. I worked at a previous TV station, but I was primarily a writer. I, I didn't voice. I was. And I made few and far in between appearances on TV. And when I came to CNC3 Russia, always remember, he sent me into the, to the voice booth. I wrote a story, he sent me in and he said, go ahead and voice it. And I felt, maybe this is a trial, maybe this is an audition, because I'd never voiced anything before. And I came back out, he listened to it, and he's like, okay, give it to the editor. On that night, my first day here, my voice was on tv, you know, without any training. And that's not how I envisioned it. I envisioned it. You know, you would go to training and you would, of course from there you show off.
[00:12:19] Speaker A: Now you get, you get on one time, you just get.
[00:12:22] Speaker C: I would tell you that we never satisfied with the way we sound. We never listen. And you would know as well, you
[00:12:27] Speaker A: know, Joel, signal to noise. Joel always says, dv, if you listen back to your show sometime I put on a recording and I listen and I'm just like, while I'm doing it, it sounds so nice. Yeah, I'm hearing it. But when I listen back, that's how my voice sounds.
[00:12:39] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: You know, even when I, when I launched my first television show, ironically enough, I was working at another media house on air. And my first TV show dropped on CNC3 in 2020, 2010, 2011. There a show called Jobs. I remember when I was filming and then I came in and I purchased the airtime and say, are we dropping jobs on CNC3? Choose Cheryl.
I saw the first episode and I was marveled, you know, but then after that, I was like starting to scrutinize and criticize and critique my own work. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, this looks horrible.
[00:13:12] Speaker C: Boy. No.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: And, you know, being in that, never truly satisfied with your voice. Very rare. A person might jump out and say, I mean, I don't know, if you ever go back on YouTube and see you reading news, why did my hair
[00:13:24] Speaker B: look like it's only now I kind of. I'm okay with.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Took some getting used to.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Every time I heard my voice on television, I would run and stick my head in the fridge. I would just open the refrigerator, stick my head in and be like, oh, my God.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: I tell you, the first time I voiced an ad, I was at Percy Parker's school, and I voiced an ad, and I sat in a Maxi going home and heard the ad playing.
I got so excited as my voice. And after that first time I heard it while I'm in the Maxi going up the road, going home after that, I heard the ad a couple times with the promotional ad, and I was like, wow.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Annoyed.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: But it passed that 30 seconds seemed like two minutes. Boy, you know. And, Ria, for you, you know, talk to me. Your 15 years here, you would have no doubt seen a digital transformation taken throughout the years. You'd have seen CNC3 move from building a studio like this to the blue to the. To the screen. There's Rhea on TV there, man. Oh, if I know you're looking there, look good.
Trust me. I see Blink My wedding all the time, and I'm like, okay, Davy, you said that. Oh, my gosh. And I work with Sarah all the time. You know, who was the icon for you? Coming through Constat. You're looking at television. Dad is saying, you can do this. Who you looked at, who you paid attention to?
[00:14:34] Speaker B: I think it would have been Shelly. Shelly Das.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: Shelly Das.
[00:14:37] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: I really admired her style.
And then when I came here, she had just left, so I thought, oh, shoot. That was my opportunity to work with her.
But as fate would have it, she came back some years later as the head of news, and I was able to work under her.
And I think she played a pivotal role in really building the confidence of so many journalists in our newsroom and pushing us. I remember she. You come to work every day, and she'd pull you into our office and say, so what is the story that we're working on today? Pen and paper. And we're going through.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: Through.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: This is what we're gonna do. And. And. And, you know, that was something that I was unaccustomed to, but I learned so much from it. You see that pen and paper? Oh, my goodness.
When I see people walk into a meeting without pen and paper, I'm like, you not serious. You come in here to rely on that brain.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: No. Well, I do rely on my brain. I work with my iPad, and there's a button on there while everybody's speaking that is writing, so I can't miss, you know, good old canon. People, old school, never go wrong with it.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: It wasn't just Shelly, though. In the years that followed, we had so many experienced people that came through CNC3. We learned a lot from Charlene Ramdani. We learned a lot from Golda. We learned a lot from every single presenter.
They've left an impression on all of us. We've learned from them. They've helped build the team that we've that you see see on air today.
So we credit all of them. And among them, you know, you have Rosemary Sant, who was our head of news at one point in time. Samson Nanton took over. There was Julian Rogers.
So many names.
We have Kmart, Jordan.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: And every single person is wonderful. Makes us better, you know, being the producer, you in the space itself, while producing, you're also an anchor. You know, being a team leader, a person in charge, is very difficult for you to not look at somebody else doing the same job and yourself. Listen, they have their style. You often look at them and say, because this is the way I would have delivered, you expect them to do the same. How have you been able to transition yourself away from that spirit of I am Rhea Rambley and this is how it will be done, as opposed to allowing Jesse or Ryan or whomever to deliver their style and still approve it?
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Well, the job is not me.
I'm coming in to to connect with an audience and to deliver it in the best way I know how, with authenticity. And I think that's what every single presenter brings to the table, a level of authenticity. And you have to allow people to be themselves and to make their own connections. And I think we have an excellent team. There's nobody I would say on our team that I ever had to look at and be like, you're not doing it right.
We have from our morning show, midday 7pm, our weekend presenter. Very strong team indeed. And, yeah, I'm very proud of every single presenter that we have on air.
Never felt like I've ever had to make anybody else be anything other than themselves.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: I am so happy to hear that. So I know when I get to work under you with your tutelage, I would do well and I would be allowed to grow.
As we get set to celebrate, tomorrow would be 21 years is the actual date. You know, I want to hear one of the stories that made you almost go home and quit. I'll tell you mine. I had a story I was working out of a newsroom that I felt was the most rigorous task. I did not enjoy working on radio after that. During that experience.
And I worked under a very tall gentleman. We know him very well. Very tall guy. And I remember writing a story, all right, because I had to work in the newsroom, and they put me there and I started writing and I was doing. I felt I was okay following his advice, how to lead and what to do and stuff like that. I remember writing three stories, and when I gave it to them to, you know, look over, they gutted the entire thing and only left the first line
[00:18:51] Speaker B: that I wrote after I spent the hardest stuff.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: After I spent three hours going through this thing and I wanted to quit. Like, I was done. And then he's looking up at the clock and he's like, well, it's 11:45. No, 11:15. Sorry. You have 45 minutes. No, I lie. You have 30 minutes to come up with the next story and bring it to me because it has to go for 12 o' clock and I need to flood this thing. And he's done. He walked off. And I'm. I felt I did my best work. What else could I have done? I rewrote the story.
In summary, Shorter presented it and it was okay. And in my mind, I did not change much. Maybe put this sentence here, move around this word, go back a little bit, do some research, pull up that. That was, it was your story that made you feel. At that point, you know what?
I could, I could just leave.
[00:19:40] Speaker C: To be honest, I don't. I don't think I've had many days like that.
Sport has always been my passion. And so as I tell people, wherever I go, if I go to do public speaking engagements at schools and whatever, I get paid to watch sports.
And so I can't go wrong.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's an amazing feeling.
[00:20:03] Speaker C: Yeah. I get paid every day to come to work and watch sports. Now, of course, every day is not a walk in the park. Yes, you know, you have difficulties, but to the point of wanting to walk away from this job or, or this profession.
I have not had any experiences like that.
Every day it feels like. Like I was thinking back the other day to 20 years being in, in, in the media and 19 of those as a, as a journalist or reporter.
Where. Where did the time go? Yeah, I, I have been having a lot of fun. Again, it is no bed of roses every day. It's hard work. Yes, it is, but it is rewarding work. And so I, again, I, I haven't had any days like that, David. To be, to be. I'm very happy, of course, I mean, I'll put in a plug here, knock it right. I'd love to, yeah.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: Because sometimes I come to work on radio and I, I, I get paid to do this, boy. I'm enjoying it. And then there's some days I feel like I work for my money today. Yeah, exactly.
[00:21:09] Speaker C: And that's, that's the feeling generally.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: I work on my money today, boy.
[00:21:13] Speaker C: I was able to put my best foot forward and I made an impact and.
[00:21:18] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: All right, let's take a call quickly. I'm seeing the lines lighting up.
[00:21:21] Speaker D: Good morning, Pleasant. Good morning, Davy. Once more onto your panel and I want to congratulate all of you for keeping CNC Tree and Guardian Media high on the radio network and TV network and so on. But you will be surprised why I call. I just want you all to please take your minds a bit back and remember some names. Dave Elcock, Dale Kola Singh, Dominic Kalipasad, Howard Mirage, Tony Harford, Pat Matur, Hans Hanuman, Singh Kamal and Shah Mohammed. Edison Carr, who was with the company up to recently. And never forget your former boss, the late Grenville Kisoon. We must always pay homage and respects to our ancestors who has brought us from wherever they were, the leaders in radio and TV over the years.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: I thank you, Enjoy and I thank you very much. Rhea.
[00:22:11] Speaker B: Some strong names.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: Yeah, Boy. I mean, I would have, I would have gone to broadcasting school and Edison Carr was one of my tutors that passed through and gave us some insight and I remember listening to him and saying, I had a song like this man one day, boy.
[00:22:25] Speaker C: So in, in harkening back to the story that I gave earlier about going on air for the first time, Edison would have been one of the first person that I eventually got training from and his, his mentorship, you know, still,
[00:22:39] Speaker A: you know, resonates today. I mean, he has departed this life
[00:22:42] Speaker C: and again, we've been, we've been so lucky. We always calling some names earlier as well of the, of the newer school, you know, and we've been so lucky to, to be in a newsroom with these people, you know. So when I walked in here, Roger sand was the head of sport, I was along alongside Astral Ren as well.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: Yes, boy.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: You know, even the cameramen, people like Manu, etc, those were, you know, stalwart media names. And not just names, these are persons with reputations you would walk into as a young journalist into a room and persons would immediately be willing to speak to you because you're accompanied by Manor Agbeer, you know, because you Accompanied by Neil Romain, etc, persons looked up to them and people, people respected them.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: How difficult is it sometimes for you when you sit in a room with politicians or there's a ticklish topic and you will have to question them or ask them, is there a sense of, you know what? Being apprehensive? You know, maybe I shouldn't ask this. You know, I see Doris Bolo doing it all the time, Akash jumping out there and dealing with it. You know, how difficult is that? Is there any particular advice that you would lend to future broadcasters and journalists that wants to get into the field when dealing with these type of people?
[00:23:52] Speaker B: I would say the courage comes with experience.
When I just started media I would have been one of those journalists, you know, a bit hesitant in the beginning but then the more time you spend in media perfecting your craft and the more knowledgeable you become about issues and the current affairs is the braver you become to challenge people and to ask those questions. And so the people you see now on the front lines are people who are so much more mature and wise in this profession that when they ask a question sometimes I sit back and I'm like, oh my God, that's an excellent question. I would have never thought of that. But yeah, I think my advice to anyone looking to get into this profession and media in general, you have to be able to work hard, you have to be knowledgeable, you have to be very aware of current affairs. There are a lot of people I meet nowadays and they say to me oh I'm so sorry, you know, I don't really look at the news and I say well yeah, but that's okay. But, but, but I mean how you
[00:24:58] Speaker A: can be ignorant to the fact of what's taking place around you?
[00:25:00] Speaker B: How do you stay away? I mean maybe you may not look at these 7 o' clock news, but you have to be consuming credible and reliable information, factual information at some point. Is it that you're taking it on digital, the cnc, three digital pages? Are you reading a newspaper? Say that instead. But if you're telling me that you have absolutely no knowledge, no knowledge.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Listen, I, my brain don't shut off. I remember just recently I took a sabbatical from the phone. I was just using the phone for fun. I wasn't reading anything. And I missed out on some stories like the bought eight bodies found somewhere down the road. I missed that. There was another story I missed over the boating accident. I came to the next morning and I was looking at it coming down in the car. I'M saying when did this happen? Somebody called me. You had about the eight bodies.
I'm going through numerous group chats now, news outlets to find these stories because I took a break for a moment.
So I just want you guys in closing, you know, as you celebrate 21 to remind the listening audience how important your job is and you do not get a chance to rest my brain. I finished work today and I'm already thinking about what is going to happen next week, Monday when I get out to work. If I see something over the weekend I save it on my phone, I do some research and I put it there so that when I come to work you know what happens with you guys.
[00:26:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Well Jesse, I think you said it very nicely on Slam and I think you could.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: Oh can end up with it.
[00:26:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
So as, as you rightfully said, you know this, this. It doesn't stop.
And being in this profession I would want to think persons that, that are in this profession have to have a deep love for it because it is, it is consuming. You lose, you lose time, you lose quality time, you lose moments, you miss out on a lot of things but you. So therefore that trade has to be because of the, the value and the passion for this thing. You know, it never stops. Like so you. The last thing we do before we go to bed is make sure that we up and, and and updated and current with what is happening and, and the first thing that we do the next day after you say prayer is to follow up on what would have happened overnight and what is coming up during the day. So you, you really have to love it. I love it. I know Rhea does and I know all of our colleagues do as well.
And, and as I was seeing on Slam as well it's not just about what you see as the final product at the 7:00pm or the, or the midday. Persons behind the scenes, they love it as well. The technicians or engineers or traffic department or producers, they love it as well. And so for a new station to survive for 21 years it has to be because the people that are behind that movement truly care.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: And I love that statement. I love it. And it just lends the credibility that you all work. They don't start at six o' clock in the evening before you go live at seven.
[00:28:02] Speaker C: Oh no it doesn't. I wish.
[00:28:04] Speaker A: Listen you all stuff like riot.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: I've never had a day where I just walked into the office at 6pm and just walked onto the set.
Never happened.
[00:28:12] Speaker C: That has been our training that has. We are journalists first and Foremost.
[00:28:16] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:28:17] Speaker C: We are in the field first and foremost. And I think battery, an old head of news that I had at a previous station and he said to me then, there's no such thing as a news reader or news presenter.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:28:31] Speaker C: There's. You have to be a journalist first. You, you have to have command of the information that you are delivering. You must be familiar and intimate with it.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: Yeah. And you know, if, if there was a breaking news story that happened between 7 and 8pm you could toss to any one of our presenters on the CNC3 news set and they'd be able to conduct that interview for you on the spot without having to have people feeding questions into them and tell them, well, you need to access, you need to ask that. No, we are journalists. We are abreast of everything that's happening in the country. We've done the work, we've worked in almost every single aspect of broadcast journalism. Give us the camera, we can shoot these stories, we can write these stories, we can produce these stories, we can produce the newscast, we can read the newscast, we can edit the stories. That is the caliber of journalist and presenter that you have before you on cnc. When we stand before you, it's a wealth of experience that we are bringing to you. So the data teleprompter stops working. We can still bring to you an entire newscast because we know the stories. We are involved in our news process.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: And that was the last question I was going to ask you. Is it difficult for you to present a story that you did not write yourself or are unfamiliar with it?
[00:29:53] Speaker B: It's not that difficult because we are part of our news process every single day that I am aware. I mean, I don't go onto the news desk at 7 o' clock without pre reading every single story asking for changes. Can we tweak this? Hey, did we get this response? How can we make this better? We are involved and because we are involved, we become part of that process. When we present that story to you, we bring all the work of the entire team that worked on that story through us to the audience.
[00:30:26] Speaker C: Trust devi the persons. Again, you may see us as the faces of the newscaster of the station, but the persons behind are really the true heroes. And, and that's what we are saying. You know, I could, I could close my eyes and trust that the person that is in a breaking news situation, that the person that is about to write a script for me that I have not seen, I could close my eyes and trust that it will get it Right.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: And it will come to you proper.
[00:30:56] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: You know, this isn't.
[00:30:58] Speaker C: Nobody is perfect.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Nobody is perfect. But I agree.
[00:31:01] Speaker C: Trust. And that's the team that we have here. We trust each other. And, and that comes from years of.
We have some new members.
But large, by and large, our newsroom has been together for five plus years.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it's been, it's. Listen, there's a reason why we've been around for 21 years and why we're going to be around for much longer. We found an excellent recipe for success.
Our newscast is number one. Newscast number one.
[00:31:36] Speaker A: Congratulations.
[00:31:37] Speaker B: Wow. That is by. Hard work.
Hard work.
We don't buy viewership or beg. You know, we deserve because of the work that we put in. And yeah, we look forward to the future celebrating many more anniversaries at CNC3.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: Most definitely.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: We don't know where we will be but you know, we're going to definitely continue to build that foundation for the future.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: I want to congratulate you both and thank you all for doing what you all do on a daily basis. I see you all in the building very early sometimes and throughout the entire day. And then you all look bright eyed and bushy tailed on the television by 7pm when that news bear drops and you guys come onto the screen. You know my last question very quickly, how do you all switch up, you know, who's reading what story between you and Ryan or when it's coming, you know, you all watch it.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Actually a producer who sits and will go through the entire newscast and then they will assign which presenter reads which story. That is decided by.
[00:32:41] Speaker A: Have you ever gotten a story that, you know, I'm too comfortable with this story.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I do. And I was like, can you please give it to Ryan? I think especially ones with like really hard names.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: I'm not gonna tell you that he gave the girl names.
[00:32:51] Speaker B: He's really confident with just rattling off these names and making it just come, come across.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: Like just raise the bar high, high, high. And then make us quick when we come in behind him.
[00:32:59] Speaker C: As you would appreciate, producing a newscast is it's about tempo, it's about flow, it's a vibe, it's about engaging the audience always. Because a lot of this information is heavy information. You know, you're talking about tragedies, you're talking about political turmoil, etc.
So you have to be able to know the strength of your presenters, how this will flow. Who, who is more chirpy, who might be able to be a little bit
[00:33:26] Speaker B: more somber, who could deliver a fun line versus who do you want to put the the heaviest seriousness on?
[00:33:34] Speaker A: I remember right here.
We have to get news. And because of the little training I would have gotten over the years, John would walk inside a minute before and say, david, look, I have these four stories here. You need to present this and people will not know how difficult that is. Me sometimes terrifying. And I have learned this technique. If I'm getting a story that I am not familiar with, I pause and I read it a little slower, line by line. While I'm reading that line, I would have passed it. I'm looking at the next line going forward and it gives me a chance to even edit the story in real time, which has happened numerous times. John BIRCH it has happened, it has happened, you know, but we always prepared for it. As you mentioned, you can toss them in and they can do a breaking news story. Guys, I thank you so much for passing through this morning. Happy anniversary. 21 years, 22 years next year and we'll be back to talk about it. The years in CNC3 and Guardian Media. Thank you so much.
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