Why Become a Television Producer?

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Part of the video series: Television Producer Career Information

Summary: Becoming a television producer is ideal for the individual passionate about television who works much better behind the camera rather than in front of it. Find out why people become TV producers with information from a professional television producer in this free video on TV careers.

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By Michael Orkin
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Michael Orkin is a producer for "Dream Home With Lisa Quinn" on ABC's HD channel. He has been a television producer for more than 20 years. He produces mostly documentary-style TV media.read more

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"Hi, my name is Michael Orkin and I'm a television producer. Why did I become a television producer? Well, at some point in life, I thought I wanted to be a sportscaster, and I went to college and I got a degree to be a television newscaster or sportscaster. I got my first job as a news reporter because it was tough to get into the sports room and worked my way into a sportscaster job and quickly found out that to be a sportscaster you have to like all sports and not just the few sports that I liked and then I realized I wasn't going to be a sportscaster. So then I was going to be a feature news reporter, and things happened and eventually I realized that I was probably better behind the camera than in front of it, and took a job as producer of long form television shows. And then I sort of blossomed and found out what I was much better at than being in front of the camera and that was being a television producer. And that's how I ended up as television producer behind the camera."