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Apparently, my program is even cooler than advertised. It seems that this Broadcast Management course has a very limited enrollment (18 students) and each of the 18 students (me included!) gets paired with a real live Broadcast Manager for the duration of the term.

My own TV exec!

That I can pester with questions!

Which will be all entirely relevant to my thesis!

I'm not planning on going in to that field, because I'm more interested to see the industry side of things. So far I've just been studying what various (leftist) theorists have been declaiming as the inherent flaws of commercial broadcast television (namely, everything). I was expecting that this class would give me the ability to study production problems from the point of view of the person holding the stick rather than from the audiences getting beaten by said stick. Which I still think it's going to do. But it's also going to provide honest-to-Edison (tee hee) real-life People From The Industry to interrogate field gentle questions about public arts funding, Canadian content and downloading.

So exciting!

My very own exec!