The first Mike and The Coach that we produced never aired. We deemed it not worth airing, due to some mistakes that Chuck and I made and due to a lack of cooperation by the Cablevision employee who was serving as our director at that time. I don't know if a complete copy of that show exists. If not, it is unfortunate as our first guest was a local attorney, Neil Carrol Jr. and the topic was the behavior of the Chiappone team during a hearing where the Chiappone team unsuccessfully challenged the results of the City Council election in the First Ward. We salvaged several minutes of that show and aired it as a roll-in for our second show. The roll-in lasted about 5 minutes. Mike and The Coach learned from our mistakes and changed our procedures. By the fourth show, we had Juan Sambade as our director and things have been looking up ever since.
Mickey Shemin
Our second installment featured publisher, Mickey Shemin. The occasion was the approximate one-year anniversary of his local paper, The Bayonne Evening Star Telegram. At the time that our show aired, Mickey's paper was growing by several measures, i.e. number of pages, readership and revenue from ads. By the following year, the paper went from two issues a week to one, and appeared to lose popularity with the readers and the advertisers.
Update, September 19, 2003. Mickey Shemin emailed me to tell me that the single issue per week was merely a seasonal situation, that the apparent reduction in advertising was a change in inventory and that I am simply wrong about the popularity of the periodical with readers. Far be it from me to stifle Mickey's freedom of expression, true or false.
Councilman John Halecky
By the third show we were having fun. Councilman Halecky agreed not only to the studio interview, but also to participation in the first roll-in that was specific to the episode. We went to a fallow area on the fashionable east side that was in the process of being developed as a passive park. The Councilman gave us an interview and tossed around the old frisbee. The roll-in procedure we used for this show became our standard format. The park has since been opened to the public and this gracious Councilman has been honored in the naming of that park.
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The fourth show was a studio interview with Terrence Malloy and Neil Barmann with an in-depth discussion on the newly-launched Bayonne Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ). Dee Dee Bottino, the point of contact for the UEZ applicants and participants was featured in the roll-in. The microphone cable is in the shot because it is a short cord. |
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| Candidate David Solari | Freeholder Barry Dugan | |
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During the race for County Freeholder, other shows had one candidate or the other. Mike and The Coach had both. Dave Solari and Barry Dugan each agreed to share an installment of Mike and The Coach and ours was the only show that they could agree would give them both a fair shake. We take some pardonable pride in that assessment. |
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John Hester was a life-saver. He stepped in at the very last minute to fill in for Rick Rodriquez who had a family emergency. John Hester is a noted broadcaster, and is known as the voice of the Bayonne Bees. We were lucky to get him.Update, September 23rd, 2003. I just saw Hester on Neighborhood Journal doing a segment about the BHS girl's tennis team. Apparently John will have regular segment featuring local sports interest stories on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Neighborhood Journal, Channel 18 on Cablevision. Good luck with that, John.
Kill Dredging and Blasting
The Army Corps. of Engineers sponsored a presentation at Brady's Dock on the blasting and dredging project. This presentation included displays at the dock and a boat ride to the dredging and blasting sites in the Kill and in the Newark Bay. We went along for the ride.
Nick Capodice
Nick Capodice appeared with us to promote the Thanksgiving deliveries that are sponsored by the Association that bears his name. Meanwhile, Nick and Chuckie got into a discussion about the various sports programs that Nick has supported over the years and that support the youth of Bayonne.
The Christmas Extravaganza (2002)
2003 Part 1
Valentine's Day 2003
2003 Part 2
2004 Part 1
2004 Part 2
2005 Part 1
2005 Part 2
2006 Part 1
2006 Part 2
2007 Part 1
2008 Part 1
2008 Part 2
2009 Part 1
2009 Part 2
2010 Part 1
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