topic Re: Vendors in Community Chat

Vendors

Kachina624 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 03:20:25 GMT

I find the recent practice where the vendors are dismissed after their presentations, they look around like, "What do I do now?" and then just aimlessly drift off the set to be very awkward. Has anyone else noticed this?

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Diva on The Q — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:01:15 GMT

I have noticed this. Towards the end of the presentation, some hosts don't make it perfectly clear (to the vendor) that the presentation is over.

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chessylady — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 04:29:26 GMT

They need to employ the dreaded hook😜

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SunValley — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:21:18 GMT

Yes, it is noticeable at times. Not all the hosts are good about closing the segment, so the vendor is left not knowing if they should leave or not. Awkward.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:41:30 GMT

I noticed tonight thst Renee Greenstein, a pro, didn't seem to know her time was up and just stood with her back to the camera sort of bewildered. That was Shawns fault for not making it clear. They need to fix this situation NOW.

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IMW — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:49:13 GMT

Yes. Very awkward and unprofessional.

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forsythia1 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:06:19 GMT

How long would it take to break away from the vendor to show a clip? A few seconds?

This would allow the vendor to leave and the host to be in place for the next product.

Is this Q's idea of "keepin it real"?

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Pook — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:29:02 GMT

The vendors have ear pieces in so you would think the producer would inform them also.

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fthunt — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:37:58 GMT

Yes - have only noticed it lately - never in the past. Solution: yes - the ear piece.....have heard anchors on FOX say - they HEAR the music so they have to go - out of time.

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Mominohio — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:43:48 GMT

It used to be just really new and inexperienced vendors that they had this issue with, but I'm seeing it more with very long time vendors.

I'm thinking maybe it isn't always the host's fault, but the director or whoever is in their ear telling them where to go and what to say.

I always got the idea there was a countdown clock that the host/vendor could see as to how much time the segment had left, and if so, that should be a big help for the vendors to know it is time to wind down.

But yes, leaving the 'stage' is seeming more and more awkward all the time and for some very experienced people.

I sometimes wonder in the quest to make Q2 have more live programming, if they have really stretched the behind the scenes crews thin and things just aren't running as smoothly as they did and should, till they hire and train more people, who are the ones that really make all this happen.

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millieshops — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:32:06 GMT

I don't watch enough to have a possible reason why, but I've noticed that sometimes even the hosts have seemed as if they are getting unexpected info from their producers.

I never thought of the problem as being unprofessional - too much control always feels even more unprofessional to me, and the stages are busier places than I often think of them being. Years ago when Dave James was still around, I remember a middle of the night look-see into the stagecraft needed to put on a show. Even then, when the hosts stayed pretty much in one place for their full hour, what surrounded them was more or less a wall of wires and cameras and off-stage support personnel.

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Hawkfan83 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:23:48 GMT

After I read this, I noticed it with Martha Stewart, and it was very awkward.

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Jaspersmom — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:31:17 GMT

I've noticed this lately. Why don't the hosts just say, "Thank you for your presentation. We'll see you again soon. Enjoy your day." It seems that the vendors are supposed to wait until the camera moves away from them and then walk away. Not sure what has changed there, but something has.