Mosses: The walkouts
Live TV is very difficult to do.
The presenters are always wary of mistakes. Or of embarrassing situations. But, it’s inevitable – sooner or later, live TV presents us with some hilarious mistakes and crazy situations taking place in the background and the foreground.
In most cases, it is not the presenter's fault.
Once in a while it is the presenters themselves who accord us the funny escapades.
Like that lady presenter who quit *cursing loudly* during prime time news. (I have a feeling this will soon happen in one local TV station if word on the street is anything to go by). Or the idiot who stood too close a rhino. Or in the other case, the one who literally fell into the pool exposing the not so public areas of her caricature.
Then there is the dude who broke his leg trying to dramatize something he shouldve just presented straight up. Or the other bloke who was whooped by an angry crowd after refusing to heed warnings from cops.
Or the journos who went to cover weed being burnt and ended up laughing all the way back to the studio and forgot to edit themselves laughing...
*Swanglish: Journos also have this sense of self rightiouesness that they need to tone down*
But the striptease on live TV due to a spider encroachment won the award for me. In as much as one sympathized with that host, the whole episode came out funny as hell.
I still chuckle at the thought.
But TV presenters are often prepared and rarely make mistakes. (lets give them that for now)
The real drama queens *this word is feminist...anyway nvm.* during live TV are the guests.
Some are just too timid and awkward *trust me i have encountered a few in my previous role.
It doesn't matter the amount of sprucing up, readying and 'making one feel at home' that the presenters do to such guests.
Live in 1..2...3 and there...one huge heap of a sweaty, dumbfound guest mumbling away at how gor mahia will win the title while the topic is how KRA will meet ushuru targets...
Then there are the stubborn guests. The ones who insist on their side of the story only. Then the plainly clueless, normally very loud annoying live TV guests.
Some are too hilarious--the presenter remembers to laugh and forgets to interview the guest. Some live TV guests are too fat--they break the host's chair. (Yes, that's true)
But today lets usher in a special class of live TV guests. The walkouts.
The ones who have nothing to say but want to be heard. The ones that are too inebriated. The ones with no regard for the viewers nor respect to the host or the TV station or anybody or the President, possibly even their parents.
The ones whose shortsightedness blurs the view that they may need to explain one or two things in future in the same or similar podium.
The ones that should never be given a chance on any TV station or a media forum.
Yes, those ones.
*****
So, whats the economic input? Well, its simple: TV ratings go up when you invite the wrong guests!
The presenters are always wary of mistakes. Or of embarrassing situations. But, it’s inevitable – sooner or later, live TV presents us with some hilarious mistakes and crazy situations taking place in the background and the foreground.
In most cases, it is not the presenter's fault.
Once in a while it is the presenters themselves who accord us the funny escapades.
Like that lady presenter who quit *cursing loudly* during prime time news. (I have a feeling this will soon happen in one local TV station if word on the street is anything to go by). Or the idiot who stood too close a rhino. Or in the other case, the one who literally fell into the pool exposing the not so public areas of her caricature.
Then there is the dude who broke his leg trying to dramatize something he shouldve just presented straight up. Or the other bloke who was whooped by an angry crowd after refusing to heed warnings from cops.
Or the journos who went to cover weed being burnt and ended up laughing all the way back to the studio and forgot to edit themselves laughing...
*Swanglish: Journos also have this sense of self rightiouesness that they need to tone down*
But the striptease on live TV due to a spider encroachment won the award for me. In as much as one sympathized with that host, the whole episode came out funny as hell.
I still chuckle at the thought.
But TV presenters are often prepared and rarely make mistakes. (lets give them that for now)
The real drama queens *this word is feminist...anyway nvm.* during live TV are the guests.
Some are just too timid and awkward *trust me i have encountered a few in my previous role.
It doesn't matter the amount of sprucing up, readying and 'making one feel at home' that the presenters do to such guests.
Live in 1..2...3 and there...one huge heap of a sweaty, dumbfound guest mumbling away at how gor mahia will win the title while the topic is how KRA will meet ushuru targets...
Then there are the stubborn guests. The ones who insist on their side of the story only. Then the plainly clueless, normally very loud annoying live TV guests.
Some are too hilarious--the presenter remembers to laugh and forgets to interview the guest. Some live TV guests are too fat--they break the host's chair. (Yes, that's true)
But today lets usher in a special class of live TV guests. The walkouts.
The ones who have nothing to say but want to be heard. The ones that are too inebriated. The ones with no regard for the viewers nor respect to the host or the TV station or anybody or the President, possibly even their parents.
The ones whose shortsightedness blurs the view that they may need to explain one or two things in future in the same or similar podium.
The ones that should never be given a chance on any TV station or a media forum.
Yes, those ones.
*****
So, whats the economic input? Well, its simple: TV ratings go up when you invite the wrong guests!
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