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I finally have something to post about...
This past weekend, the Richmond and Hampton Roads LUGs put on a combined display
at the GATS show here in RVA. This was the first time appearing at a GATS show
for either club. The organizers awarded our display with a Third Prize ribbon
which made us feel even prouder of our work.
The local TV news coverage of the event provided us with an even better form of
recognition by showing video of our display as the backdrop to the story about
GATS. This story was broadcast on Sunday evening, July 18th.
During that afternoon we spotted a cameraman and reporter from the local NBC
affiliate taking some shots of our stuff. We chatted with the guys for a few
minutes and promised to be watching that night which may have figured in to them
choosing us to represent the entire show. That’ right - they didn’t show any
video from any of the other train layouts. Our LEGO display was the only thing
seen during the 25 seconds that the newscaster talked about the show.
Unfortunately our clubs didn’t get mentioned by name but that’s ok. That will
teach us to get some kind of big banner with our club name on it to hang in the
background.
Since the local NBC station also provides the news for the Fox affiliate here in
town, we actually made two different broadcasts. The video used was the same
for each story but the narration covering the event was slightly different for
each. Each broadcast was about 25 seconds in length.
I rendered the clips into MPEG files and have them loaded to my
TubeVision site. Each one is fairly small (around 2
MB) and you can download them by right-clicking on the links below:
10 PM News FOX 35
11 PM News NBC 12
Enjoy!
P.S. We should have some pictures from the show up soon but I wanted to go ahead
and post about this in the meantime.
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