I was tickled to watch Ron Burgundy interview the most distinguished anchorman of our time at Radio City Music Hall during the Funny or Die tour.
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Back in Topeka, I told our new anchor that he had to watch Anchorman. He got around to it and told me that movie taught him everything he needed to know to be on the desk. I’m paraphrasing, but it’s close to what he said.
Sometimes, when it’s slow, we would have fun with the web casts. Since we didn’t use closed-captioning during our online updates, we could write some surprising phrases in the first two lines of the script. Our anchors were solid readers and they didn’t let the those phrases phase them. Most of the time.
Besides, it’s good training for the unexpected nature of a live broadcast.