"I Watch You All The Time"

By Drew Scott

  "Hey, I watch you all the time!" is the greeting I get from News 12 Long Island viewers nearly every day.

  I love to hear that because our news product is on the air 24-hours a day and I spend a lot of my time contributing to that "news wheel." Few people realize how difficult a job it is to keep News 12 going.

At our studios, we get important daily contributions from news administrators, administrative assistants, photographers, writers and producers, assignment desk experts, highly qualified and trained engineers, news programming consultants, and yes, reporters and anchors! It takes a village to turn out this daily newscast!

  So when people say "Hey, I watch YOU all the time," I know they probably mean the whole team.

  Many News 12 reporters go home with a beeper or blackberry cellphone and are on 24-hour call in case of urgent breaking news. Some of our reporters even go directly to the scene of a news story to save time getting details on the air quickly!

  So next time you see me on the street, when you say "Hey I watch you all the time" be sure to think about the 100 or so critically important people behind the scenes who make the several of us who appear on the TV tube look pretty good!