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Have you ever been on TV or radio?

I made the local news a couple times in HS. Once when our Academic Decathlon team made the state competition for the umpteenth year in a row. We'd made a bet with the coach, who insisted every year that we wouldn't make it to state, that he would have to shave his beard if we went. The shaving went on the news. The second time was after we captured our third straight state title for marching band competition. Looking back, like jsw, I'm wondering why I wasn't more popular with the ladies....

I had my own radio show on our campus radio station for a few years in College. It started off pretty cool and a lot of fun but turned into a bore near the end, and I started to suck pretty badly, partially due to an early morning time slot that tended to interfere with my proper hangovers....
 
my 15 minutes

2 TV commercials (one for a local store and one for Marlboro)

I'm in a travel agency brochure.

translator for the Australian Hockey team at the world cup held in Argentina (about 15 years ago) radio interviews

I once had a cup of coffee with Christopher Lambert (while filming highlander) I also met with Sean Connery (Bond... James Bond :cool: )

I once called a friend (art director -he won an oscar :eek: -) in LA and Robbin Williams answered the phone, they were filming What Dreams May Come

I once walked in to my regular cafe in Sydney and Val Kilmer was there (i didn't talk to him) kind of rude to bother people you don't know, even if they are famous. He had a hotty with him.

PS. does iChat count as TV ?
 
I've been on the radio thousands of times.

I interned at a recording studio a number of years ago where a popular "boy band" happened to be recording an album, and I assisted on their recording sessions.

I ended up on one of the songs because they needed a bunch of guys together shouting some lyrics. I think the song was moderately successful on the charts (I know I heard it on the radio a couple of times when flipping stations). Of course, there's no way to make out my voice since it's me and 4-5 other guys shouting at the same time.

Thankfully, my name didn't make it into the album credits. :p
 
Heh, I have a funny on-TV story.

I was living alone in an apartment in Oslo, depressed, it was dark outside (winter). I came home after work to an empty house, and to try to cheer myself up, I said out loud, "Well, let's see what's on TV." I turned the TV on, and MY FACE AND HEAD filled the entire screen. :eek: I said (again, out loud), "I'M on TV". It would've been hysterical if someone had only been there to witness it. :p (It was a broadcast of a concert I played with the Oslo Philharmonic, and the camera just happened to zero in on the horns for a few seconds, just as I turned on the TV.)

Other than that, I've been on Good Morning Norway (breakfast TV) to promote a book I wrote with a friend, on TV on various concert broadcasts (but always as one of many in the group) and on the radio about 4 times in relation to my book, and maybe 2 times in relation to work. All little stuff, just spots lasting up to maybe 3 minutes tops.
 
My dad's been interviewed by the BBC numerous times, and I once cycled past the news crew in the background.

iGary was on Airport once... :D
 
I was on the local news about 20 or so years ago. A news crew followed my family around as we did some Christmas shopping. I was about 5 at the time.
 
My 15 minutes were in the british indie film The Last Yellow (don't worry, no one's heard of it!) Technically I played the main character :D - The main character has a dream and I'm him as a younger self...it's more of a five mins really...
I also almost played the kid in AI ...but almost isn't good enough :(
My parents have a much better track record - my mum is in a few films on iFilm and was in Tomorrow never dies, my dad is on radio alot. I'll keep to my career as a failed artist!
 
I was on ITV several times a day when I was 15. I was in a TV play for all of about 20 seconds, but they used my clip to advertise their upcoming summer season.

I said "Yeah" in a really deep voice.

My brothers used to laugh at it, but I'm sure they were secretly jealous :)
 
I got dressed up in a Kimono to do a Japanese tea ceremony for a local CBS affiliate in second grade. All I remember is the filming was wicked hot and I really wanted to go to gym with the rest of my class when we finished. So, I went to gym and promptly passed out while jump roping.

In college I went on the Howard Stern show to "interview" the aforementioned for my university newspaper. I was quickly ridiculed off the air, as one would imagine. In retrospect, not something I should have agreed to do. :rolleyes:
 
The back of my head was shown on the news as I boarded the Metrolink after a Cardinals game, they were doing a story on an extension to the metro that opened up that week
 
Was on Wonderama as a kid.

Been to see SNL live about 30 times and got on TV about 6 times in audience shots.

Friends with long time NYC DJ who has put me on the air numerous times over the years.

Interviewed twice on America's Car Show - national radio show.

Interviewd by Fortune Small Buisness Magazine last year.

Inerviewed by Forbes Auto 3 times.

Interviewed by Auto Week for current buyer's guide.
 
I've never been on the radio, but I've been on TV a few times, as a kid, as a teen, and as an adult. My wife was interviewed on TV just this past weekend, which I think is her 3rd TV news interview. My mom did a promo that ran at least once on TV. My brother had a walk-on part on a TV sitcom. My brother-in-law was on a kid's TV show when he was a kid and my sister-in-law won money on a TV game show.

Of course, we live near Hollywood, so what do you expect?
 
My girlfriend-at-the-time (now wife) and I went to the London Premiere of The Manchurian Candidadate (the new one - I am NOT that old!). As Denzel Washington and the other actors were there, there were a host of cameras, etc.

I forgot to tell my better half that it was a premiere - she thought we were just going out for a movie! Anyway, as I came straight from work I was in my suit, and she turned up in jeans and a top... and made Sky and BBC news in the background, which was hilarious. I don't think she'll ever forgive me though (or perhaps she has when she said 'Yes'?).
 
A couple of months ago I was interviewed by my local NPR affiliate for a news story. It was a very positive story, so it was fun. Also got to find out who among my friend listens to NPR.

Beyond that, I've done quite a bit of radio work. I worked as a DJ at three different college stations, and also hosted call-in, public affairs and comedy programs. Hosting a call-in show can be absolutely terrifying! You never know who (if anyone!) will call. You have to come prepared, and if the lines go dead on any given day, you can be stuck vamping for what seems like forever. I learned pretty quickly why call-in hosts do their outrageous acts. It gets people to call.

So one day I decided on the way to the station to create an alter-ego, a character to "substitute" for me. I invented him on the spot. He was vein, rude, obnoxious, dim and blissfully uninformed. Everything you could want in a call-in host. The audience loved it. "I" never came back to that show. The great part was that only about half of the audience figured out that it was a put-on. It was all I could do to keep from laughing sometimes. I made him a chain-smoker, so I could hack and cough whenever I couldn't control myself. This was by far my best time in radio.
 
When Mississippi flooded Des Moines very badly in the late 80's I ended up in one of the those clips where they show about 10 seconds of flood montage before each flood related story. So for the whole summer I got to see myself on TV every day cycling through about 1 foot of water for about 3 seconds.
 
I've attended the Golden Globes and Oscars and ended up getting tons of face time -- especially the second time at the Globes, as I was sitting directly under the podium!

But the coolest part was watching an episode of Saturday Night Live once, and suddenly seeing myself on screeen! (They were doing a skit making fun of Halle Berry's Oscar acceptance speech and kept showing shots of her then-hubbie in the audience, who I was sitting behind).
 
I used to work as a movie extra and did some modelling while in college, so I was in a bunch of movies and in a few TV and movie theater commercials. This was back in Europe.

It was always fun to see myself on TV or in a movie theater -- especially closeups where your head fills the whole screen --, but the shootings just took too long, there was too much waiting around on the set, and it was only moderately lucrative, so I stopped after 1-2 years.
 
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