i was on the news many years ago as the one of the audience cast (i did columbia) at the midnight show of the rocky horror picture show at the tiffany theater.
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Anybody ever been on TV?
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I was on the main local news station for my city. We played really well, but the sound guy messed up and our guitarist's guitar had no audio in the broadcast (we all heard him just fine). It was actually a good performance, with the exception of every muscle in my face being at 100% tension due to nerves.
We have been on DelmarvaLife twice. The sound was good in the monitors but didn't really sound that way after seeing it on TV later that day. I enjoyed the experience though!
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About 12 years ago, the band I was in at the time appeared on an episode of the HBO Original Series "Family Bonds". The same band also appeared on several "Bike Week" specials on the Discovery Channel. I currently do music for several television shows including The History Channel's "American Pickers" and we just picked up "The Filthy Rich Guide" and "The Deed" on CNBC. There are several groups of writers who compose for these shows so we never know what was used until the show airs and we receive our royalty statement.
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Was one of the carpenters on a house renovation series. Difficult not to curse on camera after you mashed your fingers so I just cursed long and loud. That's what they got an edit room for 
lots over the years, but mostly in the last century! since my kid band (we were teens) toured as columbia records artists there were many local/national broadcast segments to promote the record(s). in adulthood: performances, interviews re: my recording business and managed artists, yada yada. (i've also done a lot of audio for video: both live and canned.)
the first time is the most exciting! so if there is any way that you can approach your tv gig with some 'pro attitude' (i.e., 'this is not my first time'!) that could be helpful. i think it's fair to say that the audio on your video copy will sound perfect for broadcast/playback on smaller systems = no such thing as thundering bass! but you're likely to get a reasonable mix.
hope things go well for you and that you have fun with it! good luck!
the first time is the most exciting! so if there is any way that you can approach your tv gig with some 'pro attitude' (i.e., 'this is not my first time'!) that could be helpful. i think it's fair to say that the audio on your video copy will sound perfect for broadcast/playback on smaller systems = no such thing as thundering bass! but you're likely to get a reasonable mix.
hope things go well for you and that you have fun with it! good luck!
I work in TV. People that do sound for TV generally don't have much experience mixing live music.
If you have someone who can mix your band on your own mixer and have the TV take that audio from your mix into their board, you'd be a lot better off. This is a discussion you need to have with the show producer well ahead of the event.
My garage band once did the music for a fashion show on a local station. The audio sucked. They almost completely eliminated the keyboard from the mix. To this day, I don't know if it was because of poor sound mixing or that the keyboardist was being a d*#k the whole time.
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Yes / No / Mu.
In another age, in a slightly different "career" iteration I shot stills in the studios (the studios) and worked the Hollywood scene - because it was my job. (Leica is the only make of 35mm camera quiet enough to shoot on a live set.) Once I was accidentally "on tv". My sister called to tell me she saw me on Wide World of Sports as I photographed Tiiffany Chin. I was just doing my job, didn't mean to get in front of the television cameras. So that was one of the things I did as I transitioned from my music scene to an "adult" career <cough cough>
Never on TV with my bass. Nope, nope.
Advice? Let the people who are paid to do their jobs do their jobs. And don't wear solid green.
In another age, in a slightly different "career" iteration I shot stills in the studios (the studios) and worked the Hollywood scene - because it was my job. (Leica is the only make of 35mm camera quiet enough to shoot on a live set.) Once I was accidentally "on tv". My sister called to tell me she saw me on Wide World of Sports as I photographed Tiiffany Chin. I was just doing my job, didn't mean to get in front of the television cameras. So that was one of the things I did as I transitioned from my music scene to an "adult" career <cough cough>
Never on TV with my bass. Nope, nope.
Advice? Let the people who are paid to do their jobs do their jobs. And don't wear solid green.
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Yeah, it only counts for one time though, unless it was a different mini-van each time.
The Jumbotron feeds are often different from the broadcasts.Was it broadcast? That seems easy enough to figure out. Otherwise, no.
EDIT: I'm not trying to be snarky. A buddy of mine used to run the ABC remote shop in NJ and told me they trucked in the equivalent of 3 local TV stations' worth of gear to do a game. So it really depends on what was actually on the feed leaving the stadium - not the one feeding the Jumbotron necessarily. Still that's one BIG picture.
One of our broadcast journalism grads ended up doing the TD work for the in house 'trons at the last Olympics.
My first time in TV I was about 8 YO.
It was a local Saturday morning kids show that had a birthday segment each week.
Wasn't my BD, but I was a friend of the BD boy.
They brought out the big BD cake and IT WAS FAKE!
That's when I first learned not to believe everything you see (or hear) on the tube.
I've been faking it ever since with a TV "career" spanning decades.
But seriously, the sound thing will be the biggest issue for your band.
Don't expect it to be great.
In school they spend all semester teaching you how to do video and you get 5 minutes on how to do audio.
Do not expect that you will be in control of anything, or be able to control any of the processes other than your own performance. Most TV producer/directors have enormous egos. If you try to tell them how to do their job, they'll make you pay.
Just treat it like a gig but with a lot of downtime. It will be very disruptive if you're used to getting into a groove. Suck it up and just concentrate on your part of it.
It was a local Saturday morning kids show that had a birthday segment each week.
Wasn't my BD, but I was a friend of the BD boy.
They brought out the big BD cake and IT WAS FAKE!
That's when I first learned not to believe everything you see (or hear) on the tube.
I've been faking it ever since with a TV "career" spanning decades.
But seriously, the sound thing will be the biggest issue for your band.
Don't expect it to be great.
In school they spend all semester teaching you how to do video and you get 5 minutes on how to do audio.
Do not expect that you will be in control of anything, or be able to control any of the processes other than your own performance. Most TV producer/directors have enormous egos. If you try to tell them how to do their job, they'll make you pay.
Just treat it like a gig but with a lot of downtime. It will be very disruptive if you're used to getting into a groove. Suck it up and just concentrate on your part of it.
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Actually, I worked at the first fully stereo-capable TV studio and post production house in NYC in the tape days. For audio we could mix and record various tape formats up to 2". We had one of the first big Neotek boards and the old MM1000 from Electric Ladyland, among other machines.
We used to get all the jobs where the audio counted, like PBS symphonies and CBS/ART jazz concerts etc. because the networks couldn't really do good audio. So we did a lot of MTV work as well. I remember one late night getting some overtime covering a Tina Turner shoot. We also had remote capability as good as our studios. Our contract camera crews were basically all the same folks on the east coast live music on MTV and the syndicated music shows (Rock Concert, etc.) at the time, which offered cool benefits like comp tickets to Miles Davis (the We Want Miles show no less!), Frank Zappa's Halloween show at the Palladium, and the like. Another was being able to record bands in off hours for the price of tape.
We used to get all the jobs where the audio counted, like PBS symphonies and CBS/ART jazz concerts etc. because the networks couldn't really do good audio. So we did a lot of MTV work as well. I remember one late night getting some overtime covering a Tina Turner shoot. We also had remote capability as good as our studios. Our contract camera crews were basically all the same folks on the east coast live music on MTV and the syndicated music shows (Rock Concert, etc.) at the time, which offered cool benefits like comp tickets to Miles Davis (the We Want Miles show no less!), Frank Zappa's Halloween show at the Palladium, and the like. Another was being able to record bands in off hours for the price of tape.
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My band, early 90's. We headlined a local outdoor show and were supposed to go on around 4:30. Event ended at 6 pm. They were running late, and put us on about 5:50. Show was shutdown promptly at 6 pm. Drummer went a little nuts. You can hear him throw out some pleasantries at the end, lol.
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So, what....you circled the block 4 times.... just to make sure they got a shot.
Yes, more than a few times. Don’t stress because it’s not as big a deal as it may sound, cool and remembering of course. Get a CD and any pictures that you can, do your thing and enjoy it. My first time, great shots of my hands on the bass, none of me but for angles where I could have been DB Cooper and no one would have known. On the credits, they spelled my name totally wrong, no kidding. Have fun.
No, it was a pre game gig. Most people I’ve ever played in front of. It was the August 1st game against the Nationals two years ago, the one one that put the Mets into 1st place (coincidence?). Sell out crowd of 40,000. I don’t want to hijack the thread, so I’ll close by saying it was an epic day.Was it broadcast? That seems easy enough to figure out. Otherwise, no.
EDIT: I'm not trying to be snarky. A buddy of mine used to run the ABC remote shop in NJ and told me they trucked in the equivalent of 3 local TV stations' worth of gear to do a game. So it really depends on what was actually on the feed leaving the stadium - not the one feeding the Jumbotron necessarily. Still that's one BIG picture.
Not playing music. In high school in the seventies, was on the quizz show Reach For the Top. The in the eighties, was on the game show Definition.
