NPR’s Brian Unger Talks About His Daily Show(Jon Stewart) Beginnings and His NPR Career
June 2nd, 2008 Posted in General InfoFour years ago I met Brian Unger at Video Box Studios in Los Angeles, when he was working on a pilot project. I hadn’t seem him in a couple of years until one evening I was channel surfing and clicked over to MSNBC and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. And there in Keith’s chair was Brian filling in! Seems Brian Unger is everywhere; Television news, radio (NPR’s Day to Day) and hosting on Discovery Networks (Some Assembly Required) among others. (new Assembly episodes begin June 18th).
In my podcast interview with him tomorrow (Tuesday, June 3rd) he talks about the differences between working in radio verses television. “With radio news you have to be more intimate, when you do television news you shout.”
He got his start at NPR when his mentor, Jay Kernis (head of programming for NPR D.C. then) wanted Brian to bring a less traditional, Daily Show style, to NPR.
Check out part 1 of tomorrow’s interview with Brian Unger.
-Tracy Pattin
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