Old WTAE Promo

I was looking around YouTube. Look at this old WTAE promo...



Is that the Cadets drumming in there? So cool to see music so involved in a promo.

Long Time No Post

I have not posted here in quite some time - mainly because I don't have much to post about.

Now that school is out, business here has slowed up a bit. That's typical for our summer months. It's a good for us to take these next two months to get ready for the very busy fall season when school starts back up again.

We've also added a new member to the Progressive Music team - Suzi Bernard. You'll see her bio go up soon in the about us section.

If you were not at the drum corps show at Baldwin last week, you missed a great show and some great corps. You have one more chance to see some great corps this Thursday at Elizabeth Forward High School. The show starts at seven. It's the last local show of the summer. And I'm the emcee - so it's worth it to go for that reason as well.

You also want to head to the show to make sure you enter to win two free tickets to the DCI Eastern Classic on July 7-8. All you have to do is stop by the Progressive Music table sign up for our e-mail newsletter and you will be entered to win.

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As I've mentioned before, I have been transferring my old video tapes to DVD's. Every once in a while I'm posting some items to YouTube. Here's a clip from a show I watched when I was in high school - Breakfast Time on fX.



You might recognize Tom Bergeron - he hosts something on tv now - not sure what. And Laurie Hibberd works for CBS. You may even recognize some of the others you see as well.

Band is back up in full swing for me as well. We're preparing for the 4th of July parade now. That's about it.

Duquesne High School to Close

Perhaps you heard the story about Duquesne High School closing. Here is a WTAE report about it.

I don't know that it's a done deal - but I did take note that one of the reasons that they have cited to close is it lack of music classes and activities. It's good to hear that is a rational for a solid high school education.

Vintage Video

I am in the slow process of putting all of my old video tapes on DVD's. It takes so long because the computer takes time to process the dvd menus as well as to process the video. I've decided to post some of the things I find on these old videos to YouTube.

Here is one gem I found. Remember Pittsburgh's Talking in WTAE with Ann Devlin.



Ann and PT are the reasons I ever became interested on a career in journalism. The clip above is from WTAE TV day at Kennywood in 1990. I had no interest in the subject - soap operas - however, I was in the audience that morning - way way way in the back. But, I did get to meet Ann Devlin and have my picture taken with her. A pretty exciting thing for a 10 year old.