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Helping A Sister Station

Phil Tenser — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:03:14 +0000

I found an exciting new use for my 11 Breaking Weather Alert box when I was asked to redesign it as a feature box for a sister station that was covering a devastating wildfire. I snagged a new photo for the background, redesigned the buttons, picked some video and in just a little while the code was ready to roll.

Actually, the whole project gave me a great idea – one that I should probably experiment on in my WordPress designs. Perhaps I can build a featured content box that utilizes custom fields to customize the box.

So far I’ve only built sections that turn on and off conditionally. Perhaps those sections could also have options and conditions within them. It could have a variable background, variable content links, and a variable featured image or text.

It would also be a kickbutt tool for the news business, where fast responses are so vitally important.

First Few Months Down In COS

Phil Tenser — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:19:21 +0000

With a few months under my belt at KKTV, I’m pleased to say that it has been a great success.

The move went smoothly and I’m happy to say that I’ve settled into my new routine well. I’m also enjoying my new city of Colorado Springs.

While my principal tasks have focused on the gathering and editing of content for our website, I’ve also worked on some page design within the confines of our template. Here are three examples that I’m particularly proud of:
11 Breaking Weather Alert is one of our signature positions. In addition to an increased weather portion in our newscasts, I’ve also created a short process for taking over the home page and putting weather front and center. We change our logos, theme colors and add a box containing weather maps, social widgets and a set of the most popular links.

When we go to breaking weather alert mode, we can always expect a traffic spike.

I’m particularly proud of how this project turned out and glad to say it’s been well received.

The next two projects weren’t as creative, but posed an interesting challenge.

Prior to my arrival, many of the station’s pages were built using large image files, even the text of the content was part of the image. In addition to making the pages unsearchable, it was also quite difficult to edit them when we needed to make changes.

To simplify the process, I rebuilt the Advertise page and a page promoting an educational offering called 11 Weather Class using css classes and html text. They look essentially the same as they always did, but they’re now easily editable and

New Market, New Tasks

Phil Tenser — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:32:48 +0000

Moving to a new job and a new market has been complete with an enormous number of new tasks. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t made an update to this site in far too long.

Today, in addition to news writing and manager’s meetings, I was asked to make my first on-screen appearance in a segment about the new changes to Facebook. Below is the version of that segment from our early evening show.

Produced another successful show

Phil Tenser — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:52:03 +0000

I had the opportunity to produce another full show on Thursday of this week. I’m proud of how it turned out, but unfortunately the top story is quite sad.

I’m producing shows now too

Phil Tenser — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:54:55 +0000

For the past few months I’ve been adding an increasing number of television producing tasks to my repertoire. This sample NewsChannel 9 @ 10PM broadcast is one of the first professional shows I produced from soup to nuts.