My new sportstalk TV show premiered
There's truly no business like show business. I spent the latter part of last weekend feverishly researching & writing the new weekly 30-minute sportstalk TV show that I developed and
I'm producing and co-hosting with
Brant McCreadie. We were taping through the weekend, with final editing today before it debuted this evening on my station's
NBC affiliate channel. It's really a heckuva lot of tedious work, what with booking guests and developing content, but tons of fun, and it's about sports, so it's not really that laborious. We've got a really cool eclectic sporty set that looks like the inside of a locker room with a ton of props. ESPN it's not, but it serves it's purpose. God, I love my job.
The format is basically/intentionally a lethargic jock and a lanky geek sitting around talking local and national sports (I'll let you figure out who is who). The personality contrast adds to the hilarity. The show is half scripted, half improvised, and in a segment based on the latter I made a mistake, referring to Jim Leyland, the former Florida manager who won the Marlins' first World Series, as Jim Lampley, who as well all know is an HBO boxing analyst. Oops. I also erred by first referring to my fantasy football tips segment "Fantasy Focus" (which it is) as "Fantasy Factor". Damn.
The show is basically a TV port of the sportstalk radio show I've been doing for more than a year, with several new segments taking advantage of the visual medium of TV, and a few new interactive features with banter between Brant and I. You can watch it every Monday @ 5:30pm on KUAM-TV8 in Guam, catch the stream in our
archives, or check it our
as a podcast. I'll put up streaming video of the show on
my site and on
Google Video and as a PSPCast in a few hours (I'm pretty stoked about that). I'm also working on a wireless content distribution format for mobile phones.