WAVE uses its OTT desk to cover breaking news, community events and talk about the story behind the story with reporters. Maira Ansari, the WAVE NOW OTT anchor, says you are the producer, editor, director and anchor.
WAVE, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Louisville, Ky., is the winner of the group’s OTT MVP Award, or “OTTy Award” for June.
The award is given each month to the Gray Television team that is using their OTT desk in the best way possible.
Maira Ansari who was named the WAVE NOW OTT anchor in February, was presented with the award.
Several WAVE 3 News team members use the digital desk with Ansari leading the charge with consistent reports from the desk.
Ansari is a 15-year veteran reporter at WAVE, who now anchors WAVE News at 3 and co-anchors WAVE News at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m.,
According to a video released by Gray, WAVE uses its OTT desk to cover breaking news, community events and talk about the story behind the story with reporters.
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In addition, WAVE uses the OTT desk to produce several different “WAVE NOW” segments like Ask the Doc, Let’s Talk About It, Weather NOW LIVE updates, Sports Talk and more.
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When Ansari was named as the WAVE NOW OTT anchor, she was a little intimidated at first.
“We have three monitors, two keyboards, two mouses,” Ansari says during the video. “I had this sheet of step 1, step 2, step 3 and step 4. But now that I’ve got it, I love it. What I love about this is, of course, you can play video, you can play stories, you can show our tower cam, you can use graphics. There are so many things that you can do.”
Ansari says her process begins with a sit down with the assignment desk managers to select the stories WAVE viewers would find interesting.
“And then usually something that I stream, I’ll turn it as a story for a later newscast.”
Ansari’s advice for other Gray TV digital desks who working to launch their desks is to keep going. “With this, you are the producer, you are the editor, you are the director, you are the anchor. You are the troubleshooter. You are doing everything. It is a lot. But I promise you, if you all are feeling uncomfortable about it, it will start to flow easier. It’ll get better.”
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