Just For TV Teachers

We wrap up our last monthly magazine by this year’s staff on Friday. That means our April show will be done, and my senior HTVers will draw the curtain on their high school broadcasting careers.

The last show by this year’s seniors should be pretty good. We didn’t make a big deal out of it being their finale. We just wanted to do some interesting stories, meet some interesting people, and let the chips fall where they may. After all, the class of 2010 is almost out the door. Some felt the screen door slam in their minds right after spring break, but that’s a topic for another day.

Each year, after the current staff wraps its last program, I turn over the production of our May edition to the new, incoming staff of “HTV Magazine.” That gives the newbies a chance to see what the production cycle is really like, and just how different the expectations are for a newsmagazine that airs on the local CW, and not just inside the walls of our school.

I’m taking the newbies “on the road” for that May show. We are fortunate to live about 40 miles from Branson, MO, and having taken numerous groups of TV teachers there during “Camp STN” in the summer, I am fairly confident we can find plenty of stories on or around historic Highway 76, aka “Country Music Boulevard.”

In addition to shooting an entire show, we plan to play a little, eat a lot, and hopefully, build some team spirit. While these kids go to school together sometimes for 13 years straight, it does not mean the are all “friends” or even very familiar with the personalities of those around them.

So B-Town, here we come. Let’s hope this is the just the first leg of a longer journey, as the new HTV staff comes together and creates some memorable shows to share with the audience in the months ahead.

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Okay, I’m a former college baseball player, and a former high school baseball coach. So as I sit here watching “Baseball Tonight” on ESPN, which will be followed by the first game of the 2010 season, featuring the Yankees against the Red Sox, permit me for this digression from TV teaching topics for this “baseball blog.”

I simply must make my 2010 predictions, just for the heck of it, and so in October we can re-visit this blog and see how wrong I was. Okay, here we go.

AL East: Yankees
AL Central: Tigers
AL West: Angels
Wild Card: Rays

NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cubs
NL West: Dodgers
Wild Card: Cardinals

World Series: Rays vs. Phillies
World Series Winner: Phillies in seven games

Of course, I will root hard from my Cards, and hope like heck that the Cubs fail to live up to my prediction. After all, they are the Cubs.

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