Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Early in June 2005, just when we thought we’d escaped from May sweeps with our skins intact, Ty Pennington and the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gang paid a visit to Alma, Arkansas to build a new home for Colleen Nick, who founded the Morgan Nick Foundation to help families of missing children after her daughter was kidnapped in 1995. The Nick family’s story is part of local history now, and 40/29 has covered the story since long before I was working there. This was just the first promo for our coverage of the Extreme Team’s presence in the area.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes or from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
Early in June 2005, just when we thought we’d escaped from May sweeps with our skins intact, Ty Pennington and the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition gang paid a visit to Alma, Arkansas to build a new home for Colleen Nick, who founded the Morgan Nick Foundation to help families of missing children after her daughter was kidnapped in 1995. The Nick family’s story is part of local history now, and 40/29 has covered the story since long before I was working there. This was just the first promo for our coverage of the Extreme Team’s presence in the area.
A NOTE ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY
I began archiving my work-related video years before YouTube existed. It was an age of darkness, an age of limited web storage, an age of... {shudder} ...dial-up connections.
More to the point, my work archive at my site was all dependent on... {shudder some more} ...Adobe Flash. These videos were converted, usually from either the master MII or Beta tapes or from VHS dubs, with a program called Sorenson Squeeze. Sorenson is great for what it does, but with scenes featuring a lot of motion, there's often a lot of pixellation and motion artifacting that's considered unacceptable these days. The Sorenson files were also generated at a very small resolution, and thus the video extracted from them could only be the same resolution. (I no longer work at any of the TV stations for whom I produced these spots, and as such no longer have access to the master tapes.)
I hope you enjoy this little walk down local TV memory lane.
