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Have you ever been on television?

posted 4 months ago by fourlemons (3634)
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My big opportunity came when I was in high school. I had been chosen from the members of my church handbell choir to play a solo at a local art museum at Christmas time, and it would be filmed for the evening news. The tune was Lo How a Rose Er Blooming. (I didn't pick it. I would have preferred Jingle Bells.) The bells I needed for the solo were marked with ribbons so after the group played I could easily grab the ones I needed. The cameras started rolling and I started playing, hand over hand, note after note. I was on my way to local handbell glory. (In case you didn't know there was such a thing, now you do.) Slowly, a small string from a frayed ribbon-end started unraveling. As I played hand over hand the string started wrapping around my wrists more and more until midway through the song I could no longer set down those handbells to pick up anymore. I literally could not disconnect them from my body. I just had to stand there arms immobilized and song unfinished. Stupid ribbons.

I don't actually remember what ended up airing on the news but I don't remember it being particularly harrowing. Maybe they just showed a snippet of it.

If any of you were ever on TV, I hope you fared better.

Wanna share?

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[–] BillHicksFan (10717) 4 months ago

The last time I was on TV was a short interview on my latest book. Then the producer of the show asked about my CD, and of my travels. Luckily, they broadcasted it on TV and the internet, so I do have a copy.

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

Your experience sounds much more impressive than mine. I kind of feel like I'm talking to a celebrity if you've got a book and CD. That's an impressive accomplishment.

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[–] BillHicksFan (10717) 4 months ago

Thank you :)

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[–] Bloodshot77 (14251) 4 months ago

Yes. I was on the local news. A 7-11 clerk got murdered by a teenager next to my job and channel 4 news interviewed me and my boss. It was like 2 minutes. The next day a bunch of customers said they saw me on TV. My wife taped it on a VHS tape. I have it somewhere but I don't think I have a VCR anymore.

Signed, million man.

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

Gosh that sounds awful to have been so close to something like that. I actually worked at a store in high school that was a couple stores down from a restaurant where a murder took place. The murderer had been in my high school homeroom. 😳 What a crazy world we live in.

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[–] Bloodshot77 (14251) 4 months ago

I've never seen so many cops at one time. There were dogs and everything you can think of. They found the kid chilling in a fast food restaurant a couple hours later. All over a pack of cigarettes.

Signed, million man.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39861) 4 months ago

My wife worked for Indosiar (which is the Indonesian version of the BBC), so she was on TV regularly over there.

I was on TV & radio several times when I was in the music industry a long time ago.

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

Somehow my foray into handbell stardom is looking smaller and smaller. 😂 That's really cool though. I'm starting to feel like I might be posting amongst some rock stars.

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[–] DarthAckbar (2317) 4 months ago

we were walking into the baseball game on a mother's day

a local news crew stopped us for an interview

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

Sounds like several of us have been on the local news, although so far your experience appears to have been the most positive.

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[–] DarthAckbar (2317) 4 months ago

it was pretty basic stuff,

"oh, taking mom to a baseball game today?"

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

That sounds far more positive than being shackled by a wayward handbell ribbon string.

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[–] DarthAckbar (2317) 4 months ago

🤣

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[–] sslssg (35194) 4 months ago

Yes. 😊

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

This has an air of mystery to it. 😁

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78604) 4 months ago

One of your many stage performances?

The people want to know😬

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[–] overseas7 (5071) 4 months ago

Yes, at least once.
Apart from that, I recognised myself in a couple of YouTube videos - At the Star Wars celebration in London and at the Comic-con in Dortmund.

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

I didn't think about asking if anyone had been in YouTube videos but these days that is similar to being on TV.

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[–] KiwiJim (1801) 4 months ago

I’ve been in a film that has since been broadcast on TV, does that count?

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

Wow! Yes, I'd say it does. These are some pretty impressive answers so far. And I thought my handbell solo was something.

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78604) 4 months ago

Only once. I was fishing for Striped Bass on Long Island Sound and a reporter approached me about my thoughts on a new gaming and commercial fishing law.

My friends all saw the brief interview (it was on the local news station) and they said I had made a perfect cast towards a rock pile in the water. I was proud of that but alas I skunked out that day😄

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

That sounds like a respectable television appearance. And the fishing line did it exactly what it was supposed to and didn't wrap itself around your wrists. 😂

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[–] ShogunofYonkers (78604) 4 months ago

No issues with the fishing line, the reel was well oiled and properly spooled thank goodness. I would have been mocked forever by every guy on the block if I screwed that up LOL!

I’m a very good fisher and shooter.
I am really bad at archery much to my shame. I’m just never going to be Robin Hood but he never got on The News😄

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[–] mikethemartian (7003) 4 months ago

Not TV but when I was in grade school my father recorded me singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. He worked for the company that owned the local cable company, TV station and a radio station WKWF. Without telling me he had it played on the radio station. It was embarrassing because when I sung it I ended it with “he’ll go down in history - like Columbus” which is something I copied from a fellow school mate and he heard it on the radio.

One other time my father, sister and me were waiting for my mom in the Dadeland mall and a reporter from the Miami Herald asked us what we thought about inflation.

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[–] fourlemons (3634) 4 months ago

The radio story sounds kind of cute and sweet but I understand that it wasn't at the time. Certain things can be mortifying to a kid, like the time in 5th grade that a "friend" of mine told a boy that I liked him. I was home sick the day it happened and never wanted to return to school again. I thought my life had ended.

Hopefully you didn't take too much flack for your reference to Columbus.

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