{"id":189904,"date":"2010-01-31T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/31\/hopefully-this-is-as-close-as-i-ever-come-to-pledge-week\/"},"modified":"2010-01-31T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T23:10:00","slug":"hopefully-this-is-as-close-as-i-ever-come-to-pledge-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/31\/hopefully-this-is-as-close-as-i-ever-come-to-pledge-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully, This is as Close as I Ever Come to Pledge Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
Click for full size<\/p>\n
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<\/a> Charlie in front of the control room<\/p>\n

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Pledge drive studio while programming is going on<\/p>\n

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Pledge drive during requests for donations<\/p>\n

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Control room for studio<\/p>\n

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Control room for satellite up and downlink<\/p>\n

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Server room<\/span><\/div>\n

Charlie just had a tour of the Maryland Public Television<\/a> (MPT) studios, courtesy of his cub scout troop.<\/p>\n

As the crow flys, it’s only about a mile away from us.<\/p>\n

It’s pledge week at MPT, which meant that there was no escaping it on a tour.<\/p>\n

We swung by twice. the 1st<\/sup> time, the regularly scheduled program was showing, and the 2nd<\/sup> time, they were in the break doing their pledge fund stuff, and I couldn’t change the channel.<\/p>\n

One of the things that I notices, and it really wasn’t much of a surprise, is that the studio is actually rather a lot smaller than it appears on TV.<\/p>\n

Seeing as how square footage costs money, this is really not surprising: You see the same thing with the Star Trek\u2122<\/sup> bridge in the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n

As to Charlie’s thoughts on his visit to MPT, he thought that it was an OK way to kill an hour.<\/p>\n

A final note, I need to remember to clean my cell phone camera lens before take pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for full size Charlie in front of the control room Pledge drive studio while programming is going on Pledge drive during requests for donations Control room for studio Control room for satellite up and downlink Server room Charlie just had a tour of the Maryland Public Television (MPT) studios, courtesy of his cub scout …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,976,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-family","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}