Sharon Tay in the field

Channel 2 & 9's Bryan Frank takes us behind the scenes of another glamorous night in the TV news business. Frank, Sharon Tay and a trainee camera guy make ready to go live at 11 from in front of a Target store in Granada Hills. Frank blogs:

The story was a sidebar about the hot topic of how much it costs to raise kids. This all in light of the octuplet births last week.

Funny, we needed footage to help illustrate where households spend money on kids. I would have just shown a vacuum cleaner sucking the cash out of my wallet.

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Doesn't make for too difficult of a night. Very rarely does anything go wrong. We shoot and cut a package, set up for a couple of liveshots, go live, break it all down and then head back to the station to sign out and call it a day.

Very rarely does anything interfere with that routine.

WE GOT A PURSUIT! HIGH SPEED PURSUIT! All crews ready to go live, stand by and maintain your positions!

He's got some nice shots of Sharon and the scene over at the blog — and also shows up himself:

Photos: Bryan Frank