the TV biz sucks

[hotsauce615]

Warning to anyone getting involved in working in television or other facets of media. Make sure you know people in the business, because the entire business is a mess. I don't know how I'm expected to live off 17$ an hour for like the next ten years (Producer @ News station). After taxes and stuff I can barely afford rent in a crappy area of Brooklyn. Is anyone else making the same amount of money after being out of school??

Majoring in Mass Media = -EV move on all fronts.

Ok done venting the frustrations of life

[jnalpak]

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Warning to anyone getting involved in working in television or other facets of media. Make sure you know people in the business, because the entire business is a mess. I don't know how I'm expected to live off 17$ an hour for like the next ten years (Producer @ News station). After taxes and stuff I can barely afford rent in a crappy area of Brooklyn. Is anyone else making the same amount of money after being out of school??

Majoring in Mass Media = -EV move on all fronts.

Ok done venting the frustrations of life

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if you like this type of work but no the money then i have a fix:

move to la
get a job slaving over a producer
hopefully you dont have lick his taint
make good contacts
make a move to a good arthouse
make a good movie as a producer
call your old ex boss and tell him go f himself

[hotsauce615]

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Warning to anyone getting involved in working in television or other facets of media. Make sure you know people in the business, because the entire business is a mess. I don't know how I'm expected to live off 17$ an hour for like the next ten years (Producer @ News station). After taxes and stuff I can barely afford rent in a crappy area of Brooklyn. Is anyone else making the same amount of money after being out of school??

Majoring in Mass Media = -EV move on all fronts.

Ok done venting the frustrations of life

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if you like this type of work but no the money then i have a fix:

move to la
get a job slaving over a producer
hopefully you dont have lick his taint
make good contacts
make a move to a good arthouse
make a good movie as a producer
call your old ex boss and tell him go f himself

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sounds good, hows the weather over there?

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17$ an hour

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Righteous bucks dude.

[handsome]

I'm actually thinking about getting into the production business in a year. Documentaries and... stuff.

[poker-penguin]

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I'm actually thinking about getting into the production business in a year. Documentaries (porn)

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FYP

[nolanfan34]

If you really want to stay in it, you're just going to have to move somewhere where the cost of living is lower. I can't fathom trying to start in the news business in NY, for exactly the reason you mention.

Now, the other side of the coin is, the small market stations where you can move up quickly don't pay crap. I was a reporter back in the day, and my first contract was for $15,500 - per year. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Of course I was just out of college, and my rent was like $250/month, so I thought I was rich.

If you like news producing, my advice is to look for a mid-level market. Good producers are hard to find. Depending on where you want to live, I'd try to target a mid-level place where you'll make enough to be comfortable, and the cost of living will be less.

On the West Coast, Spokane, Boise, Fresno, even Las Vegas, these are markets that a recent college grad or someone with limited experience can get into.

[ChipWrecked]

David Green has a bit about young things moving to Hollywood.

At first, they're full of hope: I just know if I work hard and believe in myself, I can make it here!

Six months later: Oh, OK, just don't get any in my eye.

[hotsauce615]

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If you really want to stay in it, you're just going to have to move somewhere where the cost of living is lower. I can't fathom trying to start in the news business in NY, for exactly the reason you mention.

Now, the other side of the coin is, the small market stations where you can move up quickly don't pay crap. I was a reporter back in the day, and my first contract was for $15,500 - per year. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Of course I was just out of college, and my rent was like $250/month, so I thought I was rich.

If you like news producing, my advice is to look for a mid-level market. Good producers are hard to find. Depending on where you want to live, I'd try to target a mid-level place where you'll make enough to be comfortable, and the cost of living will be less.

On the West Coast, Spokane, Boise, Fresno, even Las Vegas, these are markets that a recent college grad or someone with limited experience can get into.

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Well heck, las vegas sounds great! But I think if I lived there I won't like it anymore. Get what I'm saying? I was thinking of moving to Seattle. I've been there a few times and I heard the markets are good out there.

[Drew16]

I have a BS in Radio/TV and have been out of school for 18months and cant even get a job. I applied for a part-time teleprompter job that paid $6/hr and didnt hear anything. Now im trying to focus on working in media depts for larger companies. F a TV station.