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MisterE

Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 5, 2007 - 06:33pm PT
Could one of you kind folks either link the feature or record it and post it to YouTube or Google Video or sumpin' for us non-TV watchers? Thanks,

Erik
jstan

climber
Oct 5, 2007 - 07:34pm PT
Would help to say when it is programmed to play.
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Oct 5, 2007 - 07:37pm PT
Not sure whether it is 5:00 or 6:00pm This is all I know.

The Yosemite visit by ABC's network television crew from New York last Wednesday through Saturday to cover the "Yosemite Facelift" volunteer cleanup effort will yield a nice piece on the evening of Monday, October 8th on ABC World News with Charles Gibson under their "Keys to Success" segment which typically airs near the end of the program.

Ken
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Oct 5, 2007 - 07:41pm PT
I will be in class then, but have my staff (mom, daughter) working on the recording. Assuming it works, I will be happy to share in a dogfather like canopy of shared karma.
MisterE

Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 5, 2007 - 07:56pm PT
Thanks, Jay. It was great meeting you, by the way.

Staff....haha!
jstan

climber
Oct 5, 2007 - 08:24pm PT
Well I never! Tried to find the viewing time on Google and came up empty. So I called Santa Barbara's #2 dork( Artie can even set clocks. I don't claim he is #1 as I would then get challenged.)

Anyway here locally it is at 5:30PDT on ch 3. He is switching over to satellite so he wouldn't assure me he will have his digital recorder figured out in time. Anyway he will probably get a recording.
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Oct 5, 2007 - 08:45pm PT
Thanks, again, Ken, we will all set our machines to make a record of this, at least one of us luddites will be successful, and will share.

E-wolf, positive vibes, man! hitting up my immediate fambly for a copy of that book for xmas, excess...
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Oct 5, 2007 - 08:55pm PT
My Mom just called and apparently ABC is already advertising for Monday. Boy, Is she excited!

Ken
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 7, 2007 - 12:38pm PT
Bump. In case there's any more details. I may be able to get to a TV on Monday afternoon/evening.

Would the show also be somewhere on their website? If so, can someone provide information on how to find it?
jstan

climber
Oct 7, 2007 - 12:55pm PT
The address below provides videostreaming for a list of ABC shows:

http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing

Unfortunately the World News is not on the list.
Crimpergirl

Social climber
St. Looney
Oct 7, 2007 - 12:57pm PT
Here is the link to the news and Charlie Gibson. It's not clear, but perhaps the segment will show up here.

http://abcnews.go.com/wn
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 7, 2007 - 02:34pm PT
I found a TV schedule. It shows an ABC affiliate from Seattle as being on cable here, KOMO. It usually has the feature "ABC World News" at 5:30 PM on weekdays. They have other news programs from 4:00 - 5:30 PM, "News" from 6:00 - 7:00, and again "News" from 11:00 - 11:30.

The KOMO website had no other information, even when I searched under "Yosemite Facelift".

The ABC world news website is at http://abcnews.go.com/wn, and they seem to post things shown a day or two afterward. So maybe the Facelift piece will be there in due course. Again, a search under Yosemite Facelift found nothing yet.

Luckily it is our Thanksgiving tomorrow, and I'll be visiting my parents, who are TV-empowered. So will watch when I can, and hope to catch it.
MisterE

Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2007 - 12:46pm PT
Bump. Today!
steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Oct 8, 2007 - 02:49pm PT
I'll see if I can grab it when it's on and get it up on one of the vid sites...
mark miller

Social climber
Reno
Oct 8, 2007 - 05:39pm PT
Bump...
christa Marsh

Sport climber
traverse city, mi
Oct 8, 2007 - 07:57pm PT
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3703797

It looks like this is part 1 (an abbreviated version) of tonight's coverage. You'll most likely be able to link to the nightly news coverage later this p.m.
jstan

climber
Oct 8, 2007 - 08:27pm PT
Possibly this was the promo for the nightly news. Don't know.

Very nice coverage, I thought.
nature

climber
Flagstaff, AZ
Oct 8, 2007 - 08:59pm PT
Very cool. Ken, you deserved that. Thank you!
steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Oct 8, 2007 - 09:42pm PT
Caught the news on DVD... ripping it now and will try to get it up on google video later tonight.

Ken, you rock buddy!!!
I'll try to get there to help next year!!!
Chicken Skinner

Trad climber
Yosemite
Oct 8, 2007 - 09:44pm PT
Thanks you guys!

Jstan you are a star! Grant and Ivo too.

Ken
JOEY.F

Social climber
sebastopol
Oct 8, 2007 - 09:55pm PT
The best thing seen on the evening news in ages!
Evrey one of the "3000 friends or so" who were on that segment, as well as Ken,of course,you are awesome.
And then there was Grant as well!
Warm Cheers.

What do you think about that Nash?
Mysterious Indeed.
jstan

climber
Oct 8, 2007 - 10:10pm PT
Have not seen the second part. Ken comes across extremely well.

A natural!

The work cleaning up the Merced clearly was a bear. Miles of it. Hard to imagine.
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 8, 2007 - 10:43pm PT
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?=3703797

For some reason, when you click on this it leads to a piece about being strip-searched at McDonald's. At least for me. There's a search feature in the lower right hand corner - search under "Yosemite", and you'll find the piece about the Facelift.
steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Oct 9, 2007 - 12:25am PT
Here's another copy of the video...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5429721789053174033&hl=en
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Oct 9, 2007 - 01:36am PT
thanks, smnky, waiting for it to load.

My staff watched it while the vcr recorded channel 2
LB4USC

Trad climber
Long Beach
Oct 9, 2007 - 12:11pm PT
Great job everyone. The gods must have smiled on all of you, because according to the ABC clip Yosemite Falls was crankin'. Heck, when I got there last week, it was more like a moist smear.
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 9, 2007 - 12:40pm PT
Some of the background footage was clearly historical. For example, that showing the upper Falls in full glory, and the bear sequence. The latter is straight from the Visitor Centre "don't feed the bears" video. Artistic licence, eh?
MisterE

Social climber
Across town from Easy Street
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2007 - 01:09pm PT
Excellent coverage! Props to Ken for star-like composure and flow in the interviews!

I can't think of a more deserving person than Grant to do a segment on! Awesome!

The interviewer-on-a-rope was classic as well...funny his name is "Muir" LOL

I got all choked up when I watched the piece. Thanks everyone!

Erik
Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Oct 9, 2007 - 02:00pm PT
Grant was the optimal spokseman for the '51 Nash!
Hardman Knott

Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
Oct 9, 2007 - 02:11pm PT
Any chance that Steelmnkey or Jaybro could send me the rip via Skype or iChat?
If knott full DVD quality, Xvid AVI (or similar) would look still great at full-screen,
and could be exported to iPhone, iPod, ect. Either way, the 5 minute segment
could be sent rather quickly on a broadband connection (there's no limit to file-size
you can send over Skype or iChat).


Jaybro

Social climber
The West
Oct 9, 2007 - 02:53pm PT
I don't have it at home (technical difficulties) I just watched the link here ate work, and I don't think I can send it from here. If Greg doesn't get this sorted out, I 'll see what I can do when I get home tonight ~ 10:30
Standing Strong

Trad climber
northern cali fall with the sunshine
Oct 9, 2007 - 03:47pm PT
you guys kick. ass.
jstan

climber
Oct 9, 2007 - 04:00pm PT
Fishy came all the way from Zurich with Sabrina. He is very camera friendly and did a great job on the show. The full nightline version was a superb piece of work, I thought. More people in it so you could get a better feel for the breadth of what is driving the whole thing. The shot of stuff being short hauled in by helicopter left me saying, "Whoa! There is real horsepower here."

Leaves one wondering if anything is impossible once climbers, other people, and land managers(NPS) have together decided we need to do something?
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 9, 2007 - 04:15pm PT
It sounds like there's an extended version - can someone provide a link for it? I've only been able to see the five minute piece that was on TV yesterday, using the links posted so far. I know I'm missing something - I haven't seen anything with Fishy (Peter G) and family in it. Thanks!

Edit: I tried all the different links, plus some searching the ABC site, without finding Fishy. Here fishy fishy ...

Another edit: Special thanks to Fishy and family for bringing large quantities of fine Swiss chocolate for the FaceLift. With fine wine (Tim and Jeff), chocolate (Peter & family) and sushi (Doug, Guy, Bruce, Nurse Ratchet, other), it was starting to seem quite civilized.
jstan

climber
Oct 9, 2007 - 04:19pm PT
A link to the second version is in steelmonkey's post above. My referrence was to that.
mooch

Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
Oct 9, 2007 - 04:36pm PT
Nice work all! Good for climbers....good overall for The Big Ditch! Kudos to you Ken!

Where do I sign up to volenteer for 2008?

~mooch
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