Eclipse Update – Video Highlights
The Solar eclipse was one week ago today. On that afternoon KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, broadcast 90-minutes of live coverage from 5-7 o’clock, with a half hour for NBC Nightly News at 5:30-6...
View ArticleKCRA Hollywood Park 4th of July Parade 2012
It’s said that everyone loves a parade. That certainly is the case in my neighborhood of Hollywood Park in Sacramento. That I would wind up living in a place called Hollywood is both ironic and...
View ArticleKCRA Photographers Reporting In The A-Block
The Olympics are in full swing, both on NBC and for the newsroom staffs of NBC-affiliates across the country. At KCRA we have crews crews assigned to the Olympic Zone, a KCRA produced local Olympic...
View ArticleKZAP Lives Again At KDVS
For 48-hours on November 8-9, 2012, the U.C. Davis student-run campus radio station KDVS 90.3 FM. I was sent out to do a story on this for KCRA’s 6 o’clock news. KZAP was one of the first of the...
View ArticleKCRA Tom Ogren – Alergy-Free Landscapes
This is a story that KCRA assignment editor Melissa Chacon, who is the glue that holds the newsroom together, has wanted to do for years. Finally, allergy-free landscape advocate Tom Ogren was in...
View ArticleKCRA Sac-Anime Convention
The Sac-Anime Convention is going on this weekend downtown at the Sacramento Convention Center. I was sent over to grab a quick VO-SOT, a :20-second reader leading up to a short interview soundbite. I...
View ArticleKCRA – $6 Bag O’ Books!
Heading out of KCRA this morning with morning anchor Mae Fesai to shoot a story at Raley’s about their football deli food for 49ers fans for the game today. “Then we have to go shoot a VO on the book...
View ArticleSac-Anime – Bigger, Better, Longer
Just two weeks ago I posted the natural-sound package on the Sac-Anime Convention held at the Sacramento Convention Center. This is an expanded re-working of the story that I wrote and edited for...
View ArticleMonster Goldfish Goes Monster
A month ago KCRA reporter Kevin Oliver and I drove up to Lake Tahoe to spend the morning with some marine scientists who made an amazing discovery — that ordinary o to 2-inch long goldfish that had...
View ArticleKCRA Midtown Farmers Market 4-27-2013
It’s been a while since I’ve done a same day news story — as both photographer and reporter — so I’m very glad to resent this latest addition. Last weekend my Saturday was all mapped out: Do some...
View ArticleKCRA Ilsa Hess – Vegan Nacho Cheese Dip
Several months ago I was sent to cover Veg Fest, an all-vegetarian food & health event, for KCRA-3‘s weekend news. One of the people we interviewed there was Ilsa Hess, who was selling her...
View ArticleKCRA Mercer Clinic Vets Treat The Pets of Sacramento’s Homeless
Last weekend I was sent out to shoot a quick V.O. (voice over) of the once-a-month vet clinic that veterinarians and vet students from the U .C. Davis Hospital of Veterinary Medicine provide for the...
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A few weeks ago I presented a daily news story that ran on KCRA Channel 3 Reports. This is an expanded magazine version of that story which ran on KCRA’s once-a-month magazine program Common Ground on...
View ArticleKCRA Hollywood Park 4th of July Parade 2013
I love the Fourth of July and I love the independent spirit of the people of this country. A part of that independent spirit is reflected in the local neighborhood parades that take place in little...
View ArticleTaking the Lead — KCRA Lead Story on Kings Season Tickets
As I detailed in my book Breaking Into TV News, I wanted to turn myself into a reliable reporter-photographer to make myself more valuable on the news staff. One of my goals in this plan was to make...
View ArticleOur Greyhounds on KCRA TV
Okay, yes – this is a home movie. But it’s a home movie that was shot as a professional test. Hand held Canon 7D footage, shot in 1080 24p using a Canon 70-200mm F4 L-series lens. The purpose was to...
View ArticleKCRA “Stolen Moments” Opens the 14th Sacramento Film & Music Festival
The 14th annual Sacramento Film & Music Festival gets underway at the Crest Theater. This is a a news story that I photographed, reported and edited for KCRA-3 TV News. A year and a half ago my...
View ArticleMike Carroll Day at KCRA — Reporting the News & Being the News!
(Header photo by Jay Spooner. Thanks, Jay) Wednesday, September 11, 2013 — the whirlwind day of a whirlwind week. It’s not uncommon for a reporter to have two stories on in a day, although in separate...
View ArticleKCRA — Louise Koebbe turns 100!
When I go out on a news story I do not have any plan. I basically just go and size it when I get there. When I started out in the business I was always told, “Plan. Plan. Plan. Think of the story ahead...
View ArticleKCRA Beale Reservists Return from Afghanistan 9-26-2013
As I write this, America has been in a state of war for a dozen years since 2001. The United States has withdrawn its combat troops from Iraq and next year, in 2014, is scheduled to withdraw from...
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