cybersuchus
04-22-2008, 01:01 AM
Originally posted by her fellow Skeptologist (http://www.skeptologists.com/cast.php) Dr. Phil Plait, on his Bad Astronomy blog (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/04/21/kiki-at-tvweek/), it appears that Dr. Kiki has been interviewed (sorta) by TV week:
From TV Week (http://www.tvweek.com/talking-tv/dealmakers/2008/04/kirsten_dr_kiki_sanford_host_a.php) (emphases mine)
Ms. Sanford has invested about $20,000 of her own money in travel, expenses and media equipment to promote her own work and develop her shows. For her podcast, she is contracted with the Wizard Network, which sells ads on the show. She’s paid by ON Networks and Revision3 for her work on their shows. Ms. Sanford said she is scraping by at the moment, but has given herself two years to break even as a science expert in new media and on-air. She’s one year into her project so far. “The fact that I am already becoming a little better known is helping, and people are now reaching out to me,” she said. She was contacted recently by Discovery’s Science Channel about possible work. She hopes to use potential on-air work to drive her new-media audience. “I won’t give up one for the other, and I am hoping they will both benefit each other,” she said.
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The biggest challenge is making a living. “I am getting to the point where I am starting to make a living,” she said. “Sometimes it’s hard to keep in perspective because of the challenge of maintaining everything on a day-to-day basis.”
There you go folks. Dr. Kiki is already half-way into her 2 year plan. If we'd like to see her stay, make sure to get the word out.
I suggest a marketing push along the lines of "Jeff Goldblum is watching you."
All we need is one of these pics in every bathroom stall in America. :)
http://www.skeptologists.com/images/sanford.jpg
Or, you know, something less creepy might work too.
From TV Week (http://www.tvweek.com/talking-tv/dealmakers/2008/04/kirsten_dr_kiki_sanford_host_a.php) (emphases mine)
Ms. Sanford has invested about $20,000 of her own money in travel, expenses and media equipment to promote her own work and develop her shows. For her podcast, she is contracted with the Wizard Network, which sells ads on the show. She’s paid by ON Networks and Revision3 for her work on their shows. Ms. Sanford said she is scraping by at the moment, but has given herself two years to break even as a science expert in new media and on-air. She’s one year into her project so far. “The fact that I am already becoming a little better known is helping, and people are now reaching out to me,” she said. She was contacted recently by Discovery’s Science Channel about possible work. She hopes to use potential on-air work to drive her new-media audience. “I won’t give up one for the other, and I am hoping they will both benefit each other,” she said.
...
The biggest challenge is making a living. “I am getting to the point where I am starting to make a living,” she said. “Sometimes it’s hard to keep in perspective because of the challenge of maintaining everything on a day-to-day basis.”
There you go folks. Dr. Kiki is already half-way into her 2 year plan. If we'd like to see her stay, make sure to get the word out.
I suggest a marketing push along the lines of "Jeff Goldblum is watching you."
All we need is one of these pics in every bathroom stall in America. :)
http://www.skeptologists.com/images/sanford.jpg
Or, you know, something less creepy might work too.