Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
These were the last topicals I wrote and edited on my last day in the promo department at 40/29. Really archived these just to contrast with the "house style" of the early 2000s promos.
I went back to work at 40/29 between 2009 and 2011, but this time as a master control operator. I stayed until the station moved its control room from Fort Smith to Rogers (along with virtually all office personnel and almost all of the news operation), at which point I was laid off with the rest of the remaining Fort Smith control room staff.
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.
These were the last topicals I wrote and edited on my last day in the promo department at 40/29. Really archived these just to contrast with the "house style" of the early 2000s promos.
I went back to work at 40/29 between 2009 and 2011, but this time as a master control operator. I stayed until the station moved its control room from Fort Smith to Rogers (along with virtually all office personnel and almost all of the news operation), at which point I was laid off with the rest of the remaining Fort Smith control room staff.
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.
