Hey there,

Sorry for no entry yesterday. But it was an ever busier day for me at work. For most of the week I've been working the sideline reporter gig for OC16's HHSAA basketball coverage. But, when Lori Santi had another commitment, the viewing public was stuck with me. My apologizes. Smile.

Doing prep work for the "color commentating" role is a lot more effort and time than sidelines. Which got me to thinking that a good number of people might not know our crew's makeup. Basically aside from myself and Jenn Boneza, every other on-air talent, camera person, engineer, producer, and director are doing OC16 work as a contractor. They all have other fulltime jobs during the day then make time for this "second" job.

Among the careers of our hard working crew - postal letter carrier, golf club repair specialist, teacher, Army affairs, and of course various broadcasters/camera peeps from the local stations.

They are all tremendously talented and dedicated to sports coverage and OC16's efforts to showcase Hawaii's talent. The extra hours they pull on the OC16 side can be a grind. They get a decent check for side money but by no means is it enough to just ditch the day job. And there's the occasional harassment from fans at various locations who have sworn and tossed threats at the camera guys. Guess that's a taste of what coaches get to deal with on a regular basis.

So I'll put it here in black and white - thank you crew for what you do. It's much appreciated and without you all, we don't do any of this.

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Tonight's viewing menu is from the girl's championships at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Game-1 D2 McKinley vs Campbell 6pm
Game-2 D1 Iolani vs Punaous 8pm

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Tomorrow is the first HD broadcast in the islands of a prep sport! Both boy's championship games from Blaisdell Arena will be available in HD on channel 1016 - get it? OC16 or channel 16 on regular cable to 1016 on the HD tier...smile.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts on how it looks.

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Happy Aloha Friday all!