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Breaking into Television

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Breaking into Televsion is one of the most useful books I have ever read. I just started an intership working for my local Senator. My friend who wants to get into television gave me this book to read before I started. Wow, this is great imformation! There is advice from just about everone in the television business who stated out as as interns. There is also advice from people who now are incharge of inters. If you are an intern or are planning on interning this is a very useful book.

Siegel and Weaver's book walks you through the entire process of finding an internship and then how to make the very best of the opportunity. Resumes, interviews, and successful phone manners are just a few of the many topics this book covers. After reading this book I found a great internship in LA and even was hired full time! Make sure to pick one up!

This book is a useful source for everyone in need of advice regarding interning in the media industry. From day one of looking for your dream internship Breaking Into Television holds your hand. This book guides you from the interview to your first day, and then into making your internship into a potential career. After reading this book you feel motivated and informed to become a "super intern".

Every single intern that walks through my door will be required to buy this book!

Breaking into Television is a MUST HAVE book. Thisbook focuses on the do's and don't's of interning, with helpful and funny advice from top Exec's like the VP of MTV and Leeza. The book is cleverly broken up into "Channels" instead of chapters in which a large variety of important issues are discussed. Among these are how to go about getting an internship, sexual harrassment and the "almost die for your internship daily" attitude. I wish I would have had this book while interning- I would probably be a lot further in my career if I had! This book also stresses the importance of networking and establishing contacts! If you are a high school or college student- start doing this immediately! This book is the perfect guide to bettering your life by starting EARLY! Breaking into Television tells you how to become part of the most competetive business around- and with advice from the people in television, how can you not become a success? Run, don't walk, and buy this book NOW! Parents- this is a must for any high school or college kid. Help them get a jump on the next person!With this book, you can't lose!

Anyone can get an internship... However, it is what you do when you get there that distinguishes you from every other intern fighting for a paid position! The text is a guide written to help interns (and prospectives) get on the right track to career success. Most importantly, the authors fill the pages with tales from hundreds of former interns who--with alot of hard work--reached the top, for example: Brian Graden the Executive V.P. of MTV or Brad Besey the Coordinating Producer of Entertainment Tonight! It only makes sense to get advice from such highly recognizable sources, which Weaver and Siegel have done. Although directed towards the television industry, an intern from any area could find this book to be a valuable resource in advancing his/her career possibilies!

The title of this book may mislead perspective readers. It is a how to book for any intern, not just those trying to break into television. There are over 100 media, pr, and advertising executives quoted in this book. However, the anecdotes and advice they offer should help secure an internship and probably a job in any field. This is the bible for prospective interns and no student should be without one.

If you are a college student majoring in television production, you know that internships are the only key to getting a career in the field. This book will be a vital asset to anyone fighting to secure an internship in the field of broadcasting.

While many of the suggestions on actions one should take and how one should behave were things I found to be common sense, it was reassuring to read them being suggested in this book, not only by the authors but by the countless TV professionals that they quoted throughout the book.

There were also several suggestions made that I wouldn't have thought of. I'm so glad that I read this book before I began my search for an internship. Now that I am in the middle of working as an intern for a local PBS station, I continue to find the book's suggestions helpful. I consult it every once in a while for new ideas.

This book is incredible. My class will be required to read it, learn it, live it! EVERY STUDENT SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO READ THIS BOOK.

It's conversational, practical, and not only do you get great advice from the authors, but from TV professionals all over the country.

Hurry to the local bookstore because they are bound to have the hottest book out right now about interning. It is called "Breaking into Television, Veteran Advice from the Trenches" by Weaver. This book is packed with helpful info, humorous examples from other people that have interned and are now in jobs (like MTV, E!, Leeza, Oprah...and the list goes on) and great hindsights from these former interns about things they learned etc. The authors of this book are rip-roaringly funny and their personal stories alone make the $12-15 worthwhile. This book is like the toilet paper in the Bowl of life, don't be stuck without it or you'll be left hanging!