Channel 57, WATC in Norcross, GA, is a religious broadcast TV station that hosts a nightly live talk show called, Atlanta Live. A couple of weeks ago Todd Wright and I were asked by host Alan Parker to appear and discuss our book, JOURNEYS: Transitioning Churches to Relevance. That broadcast will be tomorrow night, August 26, from 7:00-9:00 pm. I do not know whether we will be on for the entire broadcast or, ala Jay Leno, for only a segment, but I’m sure it will be a good time. Tune if in you can!
Atlanta Live is normally rebroadcast the following morning at 7:00 on Channel 57, while a one hour edited version can be seen on the NRB Network (DirecTV channel 378) daily at 8:00 am.
Awesome! Sounds like a great opportunity.
Comment by Kevin Bussey — August 25, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Get ready to put on the makeup!
Comment by David Phillips — August 25, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
David-
Believe it or not, one of the things that we were informed was that there is no make up person for the studio. Looks like me and Max Factor are going to become friends or else there will be a lot of reflecting off mine and Todd’s heads.
Kevin-
We think so!
Comment by Marty Duren — August 26, 2008 @ 9:40 am
This better make it to YouTube somehow.
Comment by Beth — August 26, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
Marty,
Ya’ll appeared to do fine on the show. Though from the looks of everyone, it does seem true that a TV camera adds about 10 lbs. to a person.
Just how many cameras were on Todd and Alan ? (I keed, I keed – I must walk around with 5-6 on me at all times)
Seriously, you and Todd came across very well. So much so that I wanted to go out and buy the book again. Though, I didn’t hear anyone plug the new book coming out. Because we had some people over, there were 9 people watching in our house.
See ya.
Steve H
Comment by Steve H — August 27, 2008 @ 7:37 am
Steve-
Thanks for watching! It was a lot of fun. If the camera adds 10 pounds, then you probably thought Alan was the same size he’s always been. He’s actually lost a good bit of weight. Both of them are bigger than me that ‘s why they needed more cameras.
I wanted to wear a dark brown shirt, but changed at the last second. That probably didn’t help me any ;^)
Oh, no one is stopping you from buying another book :^)
Comment by Marty Duren — August 27, 2008 @ 7:57 am