{"id":41350,"date":"2008-03-01T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/tv-interview-tip-dont-use-the-anchors-name\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:09:50","slug":"tv-interview-tip-dont-use-the-anchors-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/tv-interview-tip-dont-use-the-anchors-name\/","title":{"rendered":"TV interview tip: Don&#8217;t use the anchor&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you do a TV interview, follow this tip from TV producer Shawne Duperon&#8217;s newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Only use the\u00a0anchor&#8217;s or reporter&#8217;s name\u00a0when you&#8217;re saying hello. Never repeat it when you&#8217;re answering a\u00a0question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Your goal, as an interviewee, is to have the audience feel like you&#8217;re talking to them.\u00a0 Repeating the anchor&#8217;s name can make the audience feel excluded rather than included.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By repeatedly saying the anchor&#8217;s name, you get in your own way of connecting with the audience, says Shawne, who was my guest during a teleseminar on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Get on the Local TV News Tomorrow.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you do a TV interview, follow this tip from TV producer Shawne Duperon&#8217;s newsletter. Only use the\u00a0anchor&#8217;s or reporter&#8217;s name\u00a0when you&#8217;re saying hello. Never repeat it when you&#8217;re answering a\u00a0question.\u00a0 &#8220;Your goal, as an interviewee, is to have the audience feel like you&#8217;re talking to them.\u00a0 Repeating the anchor&#8217;s name can make\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/tv-interview-tip-dont-use-the-anchors-name\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[620],"class_list":{"0":"post-41350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-how-to-interview","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41615,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41350\/revisions\/41615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}