User:Justrluck

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My real name is Luck and my first name starts with an R. When asked what monogram should be put on a jacket a former employer issued to me my reply was "just R Luck". Thereby began my moniker or nickname.

In 1968, after graduating from Hermitage High School in Henrico County, Virginia, my best friend's father gave me a job at WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia. I was a cameraman in the studio operating a Norelco PC-70 for news, public affairs and children's programming.

After about nine months the technical director for the news was drafted and I applied for the position. I then became a 19 year-old technical director for the highest rated news show in America. Our rating for the Richmond metro market was 57% - the highest rating of any news program in any market. Although the Richmond market at the time was only the 56th in the USA the rating was still a significant mark in television. It soon changed as the competition made advances towards changing that status.

In addition to news my job duties included production of commercials and public affairs programming. In 1974 the station purchased a hand-held Sony video camera and I became the first person to use portable video in producing both commercials and other programming in the Richmond market if not the USA south of the Mason-Dixon line.

In 1979 I moved from Virginia to Florida and went to work for WLCY-TV. 16mm film was still the tool of the news department but ENG was just making inroads into the business. Ironically, WLCY had no film processor and their daily newsfilm was processed by a competitor, WTVT TV. WLCY became the first in the Tampa market to switch exclusively to videotape instead of film for news gathering.

In 1987 I was employed by the Home Shopping Network as an on-air producer.

In 1989 I was appointed general manager of Home Shopping Spree, a network broadcasting 24 hours a day 7 days a week wholly owned and operated by HSN, Inc.

In 1999 I became the Programming Manager of America's Store.

In 2003 my position was eliminated as the programming of America's Store was incorporated into the HSN programming department rather than as a seperate entity.