Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Getting To Know You

Everyday at work, when the phone rings, I end up talking with different people. The people I talk with come from different backgrounds...have different stories...different opinions. By talking to each caller, I end up getting to know a little bit about each of them. 

I find that I learn the most though, when I go out on our monthly “Listening Tour.” Each month, we visit different communities in our viewing area. You may think this sounds crazy but the purpose of the meetings is for us to listen to you, our viewers.

It’s a chance for us to hear your thoughts, comments and concerns...things that impact your life. I am always amazed at the energy and enthusiasm each of the groups has when we come to town.

I am blogging to you after just getting back from tonight’s meeting, in Garner. We had some great discussions, tonight. I want to thank everyone that came out and spent the night with us...shared some laughs...and shared their thoughts with us.

It’s just a few of the ways that I get to know each of you, our viewers.

-Jason

It was great to get to meet some of you NBC staffers yesterday - thank you for taking the time out to come to our “community”.  Although I am relatively new to Garner, what I wanted to say yesterday and didn’t get the time to, was that I love the people that live here in this town.  Since moving here, I have found that people will go out of their way to help out.  It’s a real “community” feeling - something I didn’t get when I was living in Cary.  Now all we need is to fix our school problems - and our gyms!  And we’ll be happy!