Longest Business trip?

[Babs Johnson]

Six weeks in Hong Kong in the mid 80s before I was married.

A 8 month assignment in the DFW area in the early 90s. They flew me back home every other weekend. After marriage but before kids.

 

[White Cat]

Several 10 day trips from my home in Toronto to Dallas , Texas

 

[jimmymc]

Two weeks, one in Vegas and one in Phoenix.

My dad once did 6 weeks in a different country when I was a baby. My mom was only working a few days a month at the time, so it worked out.

 

[Kennywood]

Two weeks in Wyoming. During the weekend between, I got to go to Yellowstone.

 

[sam_gordon]

My 5 week trip isn't happening now. Three weeks on the road, week at home, then either one or three weeks back on the road.

 

[tvguy]

I'll tell you the rationale for all of mine. Two of my trips were professional conferences that gets more work done and connections made during the not actually part of the conference time. If I was walking away from my computer for breaks and lunch, I wouldn't have the contacts I need to help me get things done. The rest of my trips were for my side job as a sports official, that is still something that can't be done by Zoom. And finally, I have a meeting with a large client today in the office, they flew in to rural Wisconsin from Cincinnati to address many issues and questions at once, and that is their preference. As long as the clients want to meet face to face, we'll meet face to face. Almost all company paid travel is gone, only if the clients are paying.

The question some managers have raised is are those contacts that benefit the company, or you in your next job search. My last company had a budget to send three people to each of the three major professional conventions each year. During the pandemic those conventions of course went virtual, and that money was enough to cover everyone on the staff that wanted to take part. The boss remarked how much greater the benefit was to the company to have so many people take part.
And now those conventions are back in person, and yes, the photos on Social Media show there is a great deal of networking, drinking and eating going on outside the convention!

 

[Lord Manhammer]

The question some managers have raised is are those contacts that benefit the company, or you in your next job search. My last company had a budget to send three people to each of the three major professional conventions each year. During the pandemic those conventions of course went virtual, and that money was enough to cover everyone on the staff that wanted to take part. The boss remarked how much greater the benefit was to the company to have so many people take part.
And now those conventions are back in person, and yes, the photos on Social Media show there is a great deal of networking, drinking and eating going on outside the convention!

The conventions and conferences are one of the main reasons I travel for my work. I also attended the largest broadcasting convention in the world (140,000+) and believe me, I'm so happy that it is back in person (it's in Las Vegas!)

 

[tvguy]

The conventions and conferences are one of the main reasons I travel for my work. I also attended the largest broadcasting convention in the world (140,000+) and believe me, I'm so happy that it is back in person (it's in Las Vegas!)

NAB?
Never been but always seemed over my 46 years in broadcasting a manager would go in search of new equipment and in the end the decision was made by which vendor had the best hospitality suite, not the best piece of equipment.
The best experiences with equipment were when the vendor came to our station and set up the equipment and let the employees get hands on. Only THEN did we end up with the equipment we needed.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

NAB?
Never been but always seemed over my 46 years in broadcasting a manager would go in search of new equipment and in the end the decision was made by which vendor had the best hospitality suite, not the best piece of equipment.
The best experiences with equipment were when the vendor came to our station and set up the equipment and let the employees get hands on. Only THEN did we end up with the equipment we needed.

Yes, National Association of Broadcasters, it's a blast.

Are you sure they were making the decision based on best hospitality suite or which vendor had the hottest girls hanging around (with bonus points given to the vendor who had girls wearing body paint on top - Yes, I've seen this on the show floor).

I go to learn new techniques for teaching media but also to look at equipment. However, often when vendors see that I work at a University, they immediately lose interest because we have such notoriously tight budgets. I would suggest going at least once, if not only for the experience. It's SO cool.

 

[tvguy]

. However, often when vendors see that I work at a University, they immediately lose interest because we have such notoriously tight budgets.

LOL. I started at a University radio station, also an NPR affiliate. We got new equipment every 2 years thanks to Federal Grants. Then I got into commercial broadcasting. Our audio board was older than I was and had TUBES in it.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

LOL. I started at a University radio station, also an NPR affiliate. We got new equipment every 2 years thanks to Federal Grants. Then I got into commercial broadcasting. Our audio board was older than I was and had TUBES in it.

NPR always has the coolest stuff!

We have a tv studio on my campus that has been broadcasting a show for the last several decades and that is pretty well equipped, but it took us YEARS to get there.

 

[tvguy]

NPR always has the coolest stuff!

We have a tv studio on my campus that has been broadcasting a show for the last several decades and that is pretty well equipped, but it took us YEARS to get there.

I am on the Board of Directors of a Social/Civic group of Broadcasting people and we raise money for local school Broadcasting programs. The setup some of the schools we support have are mind blowing. We even have elementary schools with a TV studios. 4th, 5th and 6th graders producing, editing, and shooting programming.
But the best broadcast set ups in our area are in churches. A couple of which tend to be where funerals of fallen emergency responders are held because they have all the cameras and audio in place, so the TV stations can just plug their microwave trucks into the audio video drops they have built in, no need to set aside and area inside the church for cameras. Only issue with that was about 10 years ago, one of the churches had gone all HD and a couple of the stations hadn't upgraded their microwave trucks from SD so they had to down convert the signal.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

We even have elementary schools with a TV studios. 4th, 5th and 6th graders producing, editing, and shooting programming.

As a professor, this is music to my ears. I love it when schools get younger kids involved in the media production process as that's how future producers, journalists, actors, filmmakers, etc are born.