Reposted from 'Pulse - AYTO Season 4 Finale, which was posted earlier this evening.
BY DC CUEVA
The fields of broadcast journalism and sports TV production are something I've long been fascinated with - not surprising given how much of it I watch both in and outside the MTV and sports worlds; we'll be looking as aspects of those in my fall series of posts in between Trifecta cycles. For two members of the Are You The One? alumni who have money now, they have something in common: they have prior experience of doing things on camera before they were put on a reality TV show with money and love on the line.
Before she was cast on Season 4 of this romantic experiment, Alyssa went to Illinois State University outside of Chicago. And in between looking for guys on her campus she was busy pursuing stories for the local newscast on her college's in-house TV station and it being seen on local PEG cable channels in the nation's 3rd largest media market. She also anchored newscasts as well, honing her craft of reporting news in this suburb of the City of the Big Shoulders.
About now, the back to school shelves at your local store will soon be shifted over to Halloween stuff with candy, costumes and the like for the big night that comes on Monday, October 31. One of the stories Alyssa reported during her year in the journalism program was going to a synagogue where for one day, it turned into a ghost investigation site as residents came to learn more about the church and whether it's haunted or not. Check that out below, along with her anchor reel.
Well, Alyssa will have someone to look up to when it comes to transitioning from on a nationally shown reality TV show to being a local name. When we met Kayla Lusby on Season 1 two years ago, she was that southern girl who had graduated from Ole Miss -- alma mater of fellow MTV alums Dunbar (RW Sydney) and Layton (AYTO S2) -- and had a toxic relationship with her athlete boyfriend. But she's remembered mainly for what happened late that season when she confessed to Amber about kissing who would ultimately be her husband, Ethan, and getting scolded by the perfect match and the house turning on her. Kayla was also at the heart of a love triangle between her, Colorado guy Ryan and Arizona crush Wes, where the truth booth settled the triangle with the lasers eventually siding with her and Wes as the house's 3rd perfect match.
It's true that she wasn't the most well-liked person in the mansion in Kauai, but Kayla has definitely found her calling in something she's most passionate about in liking being on camera. Before being cast, she did a DJ shift at Ole Miss' campus radio station, did a project for ESPN-U and interned at TV newsrooms in Memphis and Nashville. That experience, along with a short stint in Phoenix radio, ultimately landed Kayla a job at the NBC/FOX duopoly in Monroe, LA and El Dorado, AR - the Arklamiss as the locals call it. Plus, this is the 137th ranked TV market which serves a large viewing area of northeastern Louisiana, southern Arkansas and western Mississippi.
By week like many others in the business, she's a general assignment reporter gathering stories for the various newscasts during the day. But since this isn't New Orleans or any other big city, she doubles as a video journalist in shooting video in addition to writing stories and doing on-camera reporting. Yes, Kayla does more of the work you'd find in small market TV, unlike what you'd find in the big cities. But by weekend, she is behind the anchor desk, where after doing some substitute work Kayla became weekend anchor at KTVE back in May. And of course, this past month her newscasts were sandwiched in between NBC's Olympic coverage.
Below is Kayla's demo reel with a compilation of her work from before she was cast on AYTO.
By week like many others in the business, she's a general assignment reporter gathering stories for the various newscasts during the day. But since this isn't New Orleans or any other big city, she doubles as a video journalist in shooting video in addition to writing stories and doing on-camera reporting. Yes, Kayla does more of the work you'd find in small market TV, unlike what you'd find in the big cities. But by weekend, she is behind the anchor desk, where after doing some substitute work Kayla became weekend anchor at KTVE back in May. And of course, this past month her newscasts were sandwiched in between NBC's Olympic coverage.
Below is Kayla's demo reel with a compilation of her work from before she was cast on AYTO.
- I AM DC
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