Going From Local to Regional TV

Wednesday was a special day for the team of Lip Gloss & A Sander as the host of the show, Bridget Edell was featured on the Holly Live show on Fox 5 DC Morning News.

Holly and her crew of two (Camera Tech Mike and Engineer Max) came by Bridget’s house at 6 a.m. to do three live segments on the new hit show produced by Montgomery Community Media volunteers. The three finished episodes currently air on Montgomery Channel 21 and also on PGCTV (Prince George’s County) and three other episodes are in post-production and scheduled to air very soon.

The show has already attracted several news organizations such as the Gaithersburg Gazette and the Washington Post and is building a vast viewer and fan base in the DC Metro Area. Being featured on a local network channel seems only logical.

Award winning Fox 5 DC reporter Holly Morris talked to Bridget about the origins of the show, the techniques used in her projects and the host’s own interior, full of refinished furniture pieces.

There was an amazing response on this show, through Twitter, Facebook, emails and phone calls and the production team is working hard to get other networks interested in this fun show, that has gained such a great popularity since it was launched in July of this year.

Personally I would not be surprised if HGTV, Discovery or TLC would be interested in this concept and launch the show nationally.

There is definitely a market for this kind of television which empowers women and encourages them to do things that were traditionally left to men.

About Robert Snip

Robert Snip is originally from the Netherlands, and is now living and working in Montgomery County. He became interested in MCM at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in August 2011, after which he signed up for certification as a Field Camera Technician and Field Producer. Since then he has worked on more than a dozen productions as a camera technician, crew manager, floor director, video director and Final Cut Pro editor, for which he received MCM certification in May 2012. His first production, the Messiah Sing Along was awarded an Honorable mention at the 2012 Monty Awards, after which he produced the National Christian Choir at First Baptist Church of Gaithersburg. In 2014 he has been working as the Executive Producer for the award winning TV series Lip Gloss & a Sander. Currently Robert is working as Producer and Director for On the Edge of Time, a documentary series on a woman and her journey with cancer, and for Kids With Learning Power, a children's show to be launched Fall of 2015. Robert is the author of the MyMcMedia blog The World of Volunteering at MCM.

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