My big break on TV

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Well in the end I did get to see the insides of a television studio and see some anchormen (and women (to please the feminists)) that I didn't know. A little breakdown without too much detail:

We first went to the Corus Radio offices and their radio booths. First it was a News channel I forgot which one, I think AM640. The offices looked exactly how I expected, small corridors and each office a branch, with glass walls and windows, and Golden CDs all over the place. The offices were cool, some had open doors so I could peek in and notice some guys had a guitar in there, posters, signatures, a collection of backstage passes, a collection of framed CDs (I noticed Sum41's Chuck) and mostly posters of legendary bands. Since Corus Radio also owns Q107 Classic Rock I thought we were actually visiting the studios of Classic Rock. I got confused when I saw the actual studio booth of Q107; It was just a tiny tiny booth (like 2x1 meters), one console, all on the ground floor, just under a Hard Rock restaurant, with glass windows so you could see the host in the booth when walking by on the pavement. I should've taken a picture! Next time I go downtown and I pass in front of it I guess I'll make a special post just for it.

Then we went to 102.1 The Edge, which was just a couple of meters away from Q107. The studio is small, yet bigger than Q107, its like... 20 by 10 meter, and the studio and the reception are in the same room. Everything is just one room, with glass windows showing towards the street, so bypassers can see what's going on inside here too. They told me that you can hear the traffic in the back when the host talks on air. Funky. The studio was pretty good though, there was a wall of fame with the biggest rock bands. They told us that some bands came to play live in that small studio, like Foo Fighters (that's the only name I heard and remember).
There really is everything on the wall of fame, even a giant Quagmire:

Quagmire welcomes you to 102.1 The Edge! Giggity Giggity


There really is everything on the wall...


...everything...


...once again that's "everything"!


And Quagmire always appreciates a lil company...heh heh aawwwriiiiiiiiiiiight!
(...but two wholes can't make a whole without a hole! Giggity Giggity)

Then we took off in the subway, destination the CHUM Limited building. (Where you get CityTV and the Much channels like MuchLOUD, MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, MuchMoreRetro... oh and of course SexTV.) Much is basically MTV, but Canadian and with less crap, and more criticism. The sucky thing is that I didn't know the channel. I don't watch TV anymore, so I didn't know who were the famous guys and the anchorpeople. A lot of people recognised them and pointed, but I just recognised them from the way they were dressed, and the way their hair was made. It was obvious. The anchormen were the only ones with a suit and ties, and the women were the only ones with fancy dresses. I noticed Michael Kuss, since he was in front of his computers browsing satellite pictures of the weather and doing a report so I thought to myself "hm he must be the meteorologist." I noticed this guy too, Gord Martineau he's called. He was the most obvious, he had a tie, a suit, a big coat like inspector Columbo, and nice combed hair. So after all you don't need to watch television to see who is a personality in the news.

Finally starting at 5 we were on Much On Demand. The audience was tiny, just 3 rows, and about 50 kids in the audience. Some had really snobbish suits. I'm not against it, but I wondered what was the deal with that on a music show. I was sitting in the 3rd row in the middle, right behind the VJs (video jockeys), so we saw me a lot, I could see myself on the main screen which shows what the viewers see. It looked like I had a huge fluff on the head. But oh well. Let's just say that the screen resolution was not big enough...

We had to clap a lot, and smile all the time the camera was on us. It was tiring but cool. Sarah Taylor was hot! I loved her afro!

So this is it, this was the right one. I had to wait this time in order to correctly participate in a TV show. Last time I had the chance I was just 13. bleh.

In the end we took pictures with the VJs, keeps a good souvenir.

The Redneck and the Punk, ready to kick some ass.
(VJ: Tim Deegan)


The Mob
(VJ: Matte Babel)

Throughout the day I kept on thinking of the one and only thing that TV always reminds me of. The famous quote that Freddy Krueger so epically and memorably said just before killing Jennifer Caulfield in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors;

"This is it Jennifer;

Your big break on TV!!!
WELCOME TO PRIME TIME, BITCH!!"
-Freddy

From Toronto with OMG MOM I'M ON TEEVEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Teoman