carmenb Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Hi, I'm the local programing coordinator for a meduim size cable tv system in the north east and was thinking about doing a program about geocaching in our viewing area and was wondering if anybody has ever seen anything like this in other parts of the country or if anybody has any ideas that could make a show like this interesting. thanks Carmen Quote Link to comment
+BomberJjr Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 (edited) I'm not too far from you, but I haven't seen any geocaching programs up here in New England (Massachusetts). Edited June 21, 2006 by BomberJjr Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Other than a short segment on our local news, and then short segment on the CBS Evening News a couple of months ago, I haven't seen anything. However, I can think a few angles that might be interesting. You could pretend to be covering an actual FTF race to a newly-published cache, following the actions of two or three highly-competitive local cachers. You could enlist some Puzzle cachers to go through their thought processes in figuring out a devious Puzzle cache. You could cover the adventures of cachers trying to get to a '5' Terrain cache, like if non-boaters have to rent a boat. I guess it depends on whether it is a documentary, or a dramatic interpretation, or ? Following some cute kids on a trail and up to a Tupperware container filled with fun kid's stuff would be a winner. Just some thoughts . . . Quote Link to comment
+Groovy Cachin' Dude! Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 There are several audio only podcasts as well as video podcasts that geocachers produce themselves. Podcacher is an excellent weekly audio podcast. Icenrye's Videozine is entertaining as well as Danny and David's geocaching site. Maybe these sites will give you some ideas. Quote Link to comment
+Sean Connery Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 In answer to yor question yes. Vince Condella the weatherman of Fox 6 News here in Milwaukee airs a regular series on geocaching. It deals both with caches he has hid as well as some of our local cachers. You should contact Mr. Condella for details of his show. Quote Link to comment
magellan315 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Could you tie into a travel type show? Do caches that take you to unique physical locations or historical and if there is something else the area that does not relate to geocaching like a museum, local eatery include that as well. Quote Link to comment
+leather-man Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 There was a short segment on geocaching that aired this winter on New York Outdoors. That's how I got started Quote Link to comment
+KA7CJH Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 I think this would be a great idea. There are shows about everything on tv these days. Why not a Geocaching Show? You can add me to the list of supporters. Chris Quote Link to comment
Luckless Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Might be a problem if somehow you gave the cache location away-muggles. Quote Link to comment
+palmetto Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 I've yet to see (or hear of) a show about the social aspects of geocaching, which are quite important to a segment of the caching community. By that I refer to events and forums, both national and local. Forums are kinda tough to cover on TV (exciting shots of crazed cachers hunched over their keyboards, whoa, there's some hot imagery) or events. Events of all colors and flavors. Events would make nice TV. Quote Link to comment
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