WJAC Game of the Week: Week 10
Re: WJAC Game of the Week: Week 10
Yeah, I do think experience and knowledge have something to do with the setup - DUH! Rigby is a polished and poised broadcaster/newscaster/sports director. And somebody has to put the entire broadcast together. Apparently, its not the guy running his **** 160 miles up north every week who has only worked at the station a few years. But in fairness to him, I bet he doesn't like to have to drive that far either. But let's step back a few steps and ask a basic question - how many of you would like to walk in to work tomorrow and find that you were axed and that the new kid they just hired (who doesn't even shave yet) would now be doing your job. Yep, crickets...
And Brett Hart thought he got a raw deal!
And Brett Hart thought he got a raw deal!
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sportsfan1000
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Re: WJAC Game of the Week: Week 10
When you have a job that you have to sign a contract that covers a specific period of time do you not think that this would ever happen? Please don't tell me he was blindsided. He was not axed, his contract was not renewed and that should not be a suprise to anyone in that business.
Years ago there was this big uproar about Mark Parker being replaced and how thousands of people would stop watching WJAC. Well, that didn't happen and I'm sure people forgot about Mr. Parker and moved on.
Tim Rigby does an excellent job but maybe they want something more out of that position. BTW, you really think Tim Rigby puts that segment together? Probably have some intern doing it and he reads the cue cards.
When you get older and complacent someone younger and hungrier comes along and takes your job. That's the way of the world.
Years ago there was this big uproar about Mark Parker being replaced and how thousands of people would stop watching WJAC. Well, that didn't happen and I'm sure people forgot about Mr. Parker and moved on.
Tim Rigby does an excellent job but maybe they want something more out of that position. BTW, you really think Tim Rigby puts that segment together? Probably have some intern doing it and he reads the cue cards.
When you get older and complacent someone younger and hungrier comes along and takes your job. That's the way of the world.
Re: WJAC Game of the Week: Week 10
Sportsfan,
I really didn't want to jump in here, but I feel I should set the record straight before this is taken to another level. First of all, Matt is one of the hardest working guys I've ever worked with in sports (if not the hardest), and I've been blessed to work with a lot of really good ones. But the staff is smaller (just the two of us) and the demands are greater, and Matt has risen above and beyond more times than I can mention.
I admit that I don't get to as many events as I'd liked to, but that is simply the nature of the business with a two-man staff. For the past four years I've co-anchored the 5 pm news, as well as doing sports at 6, 10 and 11. The 5 pm broadcast makes going to afternoon events an impossibility, and the added Fox sports at 10 requires me to be at the station to prepare that show.
And while you may think an intern puts our shows together, you are dead wrong. I produce, write and edit the 6, 10 and 11. Matt does a great job putting his stories together and I take care of the other stuff, like the scoreboards, the sports ticker, editing Penguins highlights, Steelers stories, etc., along with updating content to the website. I'm obviously also the only one in the sports office to take calls of other games when Matt is out. By the way, I'm prohibited from shooting video per union rules.
With that said, I've enjoyed every minute of it, especially the labor-intensive Friday night football shows. To me, that's been the best part of my "job." The reason I'm leaving has nothing to do with the station wanting more from that position. It was simply a difficult business decision in difficult economic times.
And it did take me, and the rest of us at the station, a bit by surprise. I leave knowing we did the best we possibly could, and I'm proud of what we have been able to do with limited resourses over the years.
I really didn't want to jump in here, but I feel I should set the record straight before this is taken to another level. First of all, Matt is one of the hardest working guys I've ever worked with in sports (if not the hardest), and I've been blessed to work with a lot of really good ones. But the staff is smaller (just the two of us) and the demands are greater, and Matt has risen above and beyond more times than I can mention.
I admit that I don't get to as many events as I'd liked to, but that is simply the nature of the business with a two-man staff. For the past four years I've co-anchored the 5 pm news, as well as doing sports at 6, 10 and 11. The 5 pm broadcast makes going to afternoon events an impossibility, and the added Fox sports at 10 requires me to be at the station to prepare that show.
And while you may think an intern puts our shows together, you are dead wrong. I produce, write and edit the 6, 10 and 11. Matt does a great job putting his stories together and I take care of the other stuff, like the scoreboards, the sports ticker, editing Penguins highlights, Steelers stories, etc., along with updating content to the website. I'm obviously also the only one in the sports office to take calls of other games when Matt is out. By the way, I'm prohibited from shooting video per union rules.
With that said, I've enjoyed every minute of it, especially the labor-intensive Friday night football shows. To me, that's been the best part of my "job." The reason I'm leaving has nothing to do with the station wanting more from that position. It was simply a difficult business decision in difficult economic times.
And it did take me, and the rest of us at the station, a bit by surprise. I leave knowing we did the best we possibly could, and I'm proud of what we have been able to do with limited resourses over the years.
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sportsfan1000
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Re: WJAC Game of the Week: Week 10
Like I said Tim I think you do a great job and thanks for the "education" on what you do.
If you signed a contract to work until 20?? and make X amount of dollars, how in the economy that we are in could you not see when your contract was up that there would possibly be a change? Unless you were giving assurances but even then I still would have been worried. If they could hire someone for less than X when your contract expired it would have had me on edge for some time.
It's a shame but that's the way the world goes.
If you signed a contract to work until 20?? and make X amount of dollars, how in the economy that we are in could you not see when your contract was up that there would possibly be a change? Unless you were giving assurances but even then I still would have been worried. If they could hire someone for less than X when your contract expired it would have had me on edge for some time.
It's a shame but that's the way the world goes.