I Bet Carl Madonna Doesn't Have to Iron On His Own Logos

So here I am, the morning of the big parade coverage, and I'm ironing Access-4 logos onto oatmeal colored polos for Micah and me. I'm going to affix the logo to a bright red shirt for Mario Ingoglia. I was told he would like to wear something "garish." I'm going to give him the red shirt, although I'm not sure how the logo will look on the bright red. If it's not garish enough, then he doesn't have to wear it. No biggie. My point is, we're doing all of the on-air stuff ourselves. We're writing all of our own notes for the parade route. We're making our own shirts. We're doing our own hair (we don't do makeup). We're writing our own jokes. We're conducting our own research. Most of what we do tonight will be off the cuff. We don't have teleprompters. We don't have anyone feeding us lines.

The SJ-R contacted me late yesterday afternoon to ask a few questions about the coverage. Brian Eason wrote an article in today's SJ-R about the television coverage. You can read the article here. This is all great publicity for Access-4, but I also think it's good publicity for the State Fair and for the parade. If all goes well tonight, then I expect we'll (read: Access-4) be invited back next year to cover the parade again. I hope the televised parade is an asset to folks who can't get out to see the actual parade.

Yes, that's right. I've referenced Carl Madonna twice in blog posts this week. Out of respect. He's been on the show, and he's a great newsman.