Animated with Ashleigh
Yes, I have a vanity search set up in Google.
It's really a handy thing when you're occasionally mentioned in media reports for things you do. So I just have Google News on the lookout for "Pat Kiernan." When it finds it, I get a little report.
So this morning, it turned up in Michelle Greppi's column for TV Week. Writing about the premiere of an HBO documentary I saw last week, Michelle wrote:
Tru TV’s Ashleigh Banfield having a long animated conversation with Pat Kiernan, the NY1 fixture who does not go for animated as an early-morning anchor.
The little known fact (in New York) that should be added to Michelle's observation, is that Ashleigh and I worked together almost two decades ago. She was the weekend anchor and I was an even greener reporter at CFRN Television, the CTV-network station in Edmonton.
It's really a handy thing when you're occasionally mentioned in media reports for things you do. So I just have Google News on the lookout for "Pat Kiernan." When it finds it, I get a little report.
So this morning, it turned up in Michelle Greppi's column for TV Week. Writing about the premiere of an HBO documentary I saw last week, Michelle wrote:
Tru TV’s Ashleigh Banfield having a long animated conversation with Pat Kiernan, the NY1 fixture who does not go for animated as an early-morning anchor.
The little known fact (in New York) that should be added to Michelle's observation, is that Ashleigh and I worked together almost two decades ago. She was the weekend anchor and I was an even greener reporter at CFRN Television, the CTV-network station in Edmonton.
So, yes, we were having an animated conversation. We only seem to catch up once every couple of years even though we're both in New York now. So it was a great treat to run into her at the screening. (And the movie, "A Night in Heaven," is worth seeing when it premieres on HBO at the end of the month. It's the story of Le Cirque owner Sirio Maccioni and his family's experience in the restaurant business in New York.)
Labels: Ashleigh Banfield, Le Cirque, Maccioni
