Today I visited the FOX 50/WRAL studios in downtown Raleigh. There I met Kevin Kolbe who showed me around the studios a bit. First Stop was the master control room. All of the channels run by this station are controlled by the people in these rooms. These are the people who change between the program and the commercials, as well as make sure everything is working properly.  After the brief tour of some the other facilities such as the small and large scale studios, Kevin took me to a meeting where he and his co-workers meet every Monday. There I met Sierra, Pete, Gayle, and Mark. I listened to a fascinating presentation about color and psychology. I spent the rest of the morning with Sierra seeing how she edits the website and how she goes about adding new pages and promoting the shows on the site, funny enough they use WordPress for their website. She also went over how she runs the FOX50 facebook page. I then worked with Pete for a while after lunch. He handles the some of the promo editing. He showed me how they go about doing their editing, at least for the Steve Harvey Show Promos. I also got an early look at the new season of So You Think You Can Dance: Next Generation. To finish off the day I met David Crabtree, an anchor for WRAL. He introduced me to a whole bunch of people in the News Room, from other anchors to editors and others in production.

Over all it was an amazing day, and I really look forward to going back tomorrow!

-CJ