Wrapping up the 50th Anniversary weekend, here are a few comments and a few reception/toast photos.
We came to work on Monday and spent lots of time talking about the anniversary broadcast of "KCET: 50 Years at the Forefront". I turned up twice in the show. Once talking about the late Huell Howser and the other was a comment during the summing up part of the show. I hope to see the show again, so I can actually figure out what I said. All I know for sure, is that I did not embarrass myself. Big sigh of relief. :-)
The show began with how we were a community asset, hyper local, with satellite studios in East LA and another in Watts. Talking to people who were part of the Chicano movement and people trying to rebuild after the Watts Riots. As I mentioned to Bohdan Zachary (the producer) those are the very things the CAB sends us money each year to make happen. Community engagement. The show then goes on in different eras and ends, similar to how it began. We are trying, utilizing New Media, to get back to that hyper local mindset and that is the future of KCETLink. Did I have problems with what was shown or not shown? Of course I did...but it told the story that they wanted told. More power to them.
The toast and the cake cutting happened at 4PM on Monday afternoon. President Al Jerome presided over the event, thanking the staff for all the help over the past 3.5 years, as we made the break from PBS and forged our own course. Here we are, still standing, when no one believed we could.
May we make that extra 50 years, broadcasting in Los Angeles in whatever way evolves.
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