KWCH

That was fun. I've never been in such a posh news station before (I've been in some... um... fairly cruddy ones, but nothing like that). I hope everyone there knows what they've got. It seemed like most of them did.

I want to see the place when all the parts are moving. It was all well and good to walk through empty studios and control rooms, but those look about like one would expect, full of cameras and boards and buttons. I want to know how it feels when it's alive.

As far as the "sport journalism" aspect of the visit goes, I have to admit that I sort of tuned out when the Catch It Kansas spiel was going on. Yes, I realize that's the part I was actually supposed to be paying the most attention to. No, there's not much I can do about that. I appreciate what they're doing, but I think I was too distracted by wanting to see everything else that was going on. Either that or I was distracted by all the televisions. (Incidentally, I fully realized how much of a mind-suck television truly is the time I was out to dinner with some friends from out-of-town, and I found myself staring at a Spanish-language broadcast of soccer on the TV instead of paying attention to my friends. Which means I was watching a game I can't stand in a language I don't understand instead of talking to some people I like and hardly ever see. Yep.)

Personally, I'm more interested in the production side of things than the logistics of covering stories and putting them online, so I kind of just would have preferred to play with their editing bays the whole time. But I know that's not why we were there. At any rate, the whole thing was totally worth it.