___done for today

___editing job complete on the Nixon 65,66, and 67 reunion video, Norma did an especially good job, also completed the Martin Spring Band Concert which had been a long time waiting, Norma is suppose to be checking on the Puppet Show to see if we can get them, they were the winners of a national contest, we shall see what happens

___sunday is blue

___editing job today on the Normis 65,66 and 67 reunion video which will be shown the second week of September before the sept. 16 deadline, on hot town this week we have the fine talent of ranchero singer Esteban Gustavo and on tejano radio, i do my thing with the "no Sunny, no Joe" thingie, editing on tuesday and thursday, no shooting at all this week, it is the first week of school and it is always hectic, ji

___long overdue, but now i am back

___it has been a long week and i have been on a sort of emotional rollar coaster ride, af first on Monday everything was swell and we taped a show for Tejano Radio and i called it, "NO Sunny, No Joe" basically because it was totally recorded for one hour with not even one song by Sunny Ozuna or Little Joe Hernandez, solo other musicos pero de los 60's. Then came the big letdown, after we had worked so hard to produce show #1 for Sportstown and after the editing job and publicising it among the Coaches and even ran two articles in the local paper, Nada. It was not shown and i even asked the peron in charge to PLEASE run it and nada on wed and thurs, y sigue con nada, but then on mon, wed, and fri, the Mariachi bands from out of town made an appearance on Hot Town and Melissa did a spectacular job in introducing the musicians, meanwhile I finished editing Tejano Radio # 5, (no sunny, no joe) and i even did one on Soundtown with some old footage that i had in storage and it came out so good that i even like it lots, i had decided to quit the TV production business totally because of the disagreement but i managed to talk myself out of it, and even though i am upset, i will grind my lips and continue with Tejano Radio which i am beginning to really like and enjoy and Hot Town is so far ahead that we have tapes aligned up till the middle of November, gos bless and god speed

___all is well, sportstownn, laredo style

___the taping of the first Sportstown show went extremely well as we had a lot of help in the studio. Rolando and Norma showed up to help out and the results really showed. Coach Davis from Martin brought four of his players and did they talk well, so well we almost had to tell them not to reveal too much of their program. Later Coach Joe Sendejar from United South came by and also did a dynamite job in describing his program. We also had a short chat with Coach Idrogo from Martin. Above all i have to commend Dennis Silva 11 from the LMT who i am starting to believe is a heck of a Journalist. He does so much with so few words. Not to forget the excellent job that Louis does in the control room but we are so used to that

___coming up this week

___today we record show #1 of the Sportstown series in the studio, up next on Hot Town this week is the performance of several student Mariachi groups mainly from the Valley and DelRio which was recorded at the Martin High School Band Mariachi Fiesta, again Melissa does a masterful job in hosting this performance, on Monday we record Tejano Music #5 which will be Tejano Music del ayer with "no Sunny, no Joe" and then on Tuesday we visit and record the United South campus to see what the Panthers have this year, more material for the upcoming Sportstown segment, y despues, pues, edit, edit and more edit

___forgot to say . . .

___Norma and two guest, Beto Trevino and Johnny Chamberlain did a tremendous recording last night for a Hot Town show, their topic was the upcoming Nixon High School reunion of the classes of 65, 66 and 67, they passed out all the information and even remembered all the good time of their high school days. excellent show and it will prove to be very interesting

___looking good

___things look good for the initial taping of the first chapter of Sportstown, we have visitors in the studio such as Coach Davis from Martin and Coach Sendejar from United South, Coach Alaniz from Cigarroa and Coach Sanchez from United will appear on a pre-recorded session, also we have footage from the Martin Tiger preseason practice and a few shots from Alexander, the Tejano Radio segment on laredo music will also premiere tonight and this weekend, and so we continue . . .

___this week on Hot Town . . .

___airing this week is the performance by a young great singer, her name is Nidia Lizette Lopez and she is quite a talent, winner of a recording contract at a contest sponsored by the local TV media and dr. pepper, well she sings up a storm this week and not only that but she is accompanied by a talented grupo, and they are "los preferidos" and their featured instrument is a "trecillo",, great performances brought to you by Hot Town and she is barely 17 and a recent high school grad

___update, sort of (sorry but things are slow)

___psa, sort of, but informational, i think ___i've just put together a one hour program for "tejano radio" that will be on the air this coming friday, saturday, and sunday, what is noteworthy about this program and perhaps make it attractive is that i have included in it close to twenty songs all exclusively recorded by Laredo born musicians and singers, everything from Beto Villa to Mike Ornelas, Publio, Carlos Landin, a little Peppers, of course Rene, Sangre Mexicana y terminamos con Bernardo y sus Compadres. The negative is that none of my television personalities showed up on the recording date so i had to step in and get in front of the camera, this is not easy when you are also the man behind the camera, well, two of them, producer, director, idea man, artistic mogul, sound man, and main goffer. But who better to tall about these "musicos" and the story behind the music and so i did, i did get a haircut just to please el Ticitle. This is not a CD but a Video(DVD) and copies are availablle for those that would like to have a copy. Order from Norma for a nominal price if you so desire, so now i can devote the rest of the week to my other project, el "Sportstown" which will debut this coming week

___here comes the crunch . . .

___passed out informational pamphlets to all the people involved in our Sportstown program which is coming up this weekend, the "Manta" which will be our backdrop is all colored, coated and laminated, i had the artist include all the school colors for our local high school plus TAMIU, UT and Eagle Pass, just in case, and then of course it has the logos of the many sports we hope to cover, still to come, the Sportstown shirt, cap and the business card, we shall soon see who is who when it comes to standing up and saying "here i yam", . . .but in the meantime, we will also shoot and cut another version of tejano radio with an all Laredo guest list, recorded that is, es today

___rolling and picking up momentum . . .

___after the big goof-off on Friday, it is nice to report that "tejano radio" ran uninterupted for two days, saturday and sunday, but it was the second tape that i had turned in, i did go into the editing room today and spent a couple of hours remaking Tejano Radio Tape # 1 as best i could to the best of my memory which was mostly here all day, tomorrow we shoot Tejano # 3 which has an exciting format of all laredo bands and singers del pasado, well, some of them are not too pasados, that is they are still alive just like we are, ji

___"premee event"

______"premee" event ____"Tejano Radio" starring Luciano Duarte, Carlos Valle and your truly has it's premiere night this evening, same show will run Fri, Sat and Sun at 7:00 pm, tune in and listen to all that spectacular musica de los 60's, the music we grew up on, courted and fell in love with, you will probably breakout in a rem or two, that is on TV Cable Channel 3, Critics, don't be too harsh on us as it is only the first show, it is a little rough but it will get better

___continue, continue . . .

___finished editing on the second tejano radio show, i keep getting ideas for future shows but i know we need to get better organized, need a strong opening and also a list of credits at the end, on the other hand we keep moving forward on the Sportstown thingy, things are moving, a step back and then two forward, it will get done, purchased some needed things for the show and need to make some contacts with the involved personnel, especially the head Man