“There are long hours in this business,” she said, “but you can make it work.”In Syracuse, the television news market was very competitive and unpredictable. While her two children were growing up, Hand took on the role of morning anchor, going into work early and getting home in time to have dinner with the family. Join Facebook to connect with Laura Hand and others you may know. Hand survived layoffs by making herself more valuable. There was a great deal of political unrest and student protests during that era, so Hand elected to get her coursework done as soon as possible and get started on a career, as opposed to remaining on campus and getting caught up in the times.“It was during the Vietnam War,” she said. Hand signed up for both.“I thought it was interesting, and I thought I could do it,” she recalled. She is also expected to engage with viewers via social media. This resulted in the elimination of forty jobs at WTVH. “There’s no cookie cutter approach here.”Hand has worn many hats at WSTM, and found a way to spend time with her family while advancing her career. She would not disclose her age but was proud to note her career at the WSTM station is going on 45 years.Hand took some time recently to talk about her upbringing as an “Army brat,” the events that brought her to Syracuse, her career success, and her continuing quest to make Central New York a better place.Hand was born in Virginia. While many others her age in the broadcast journalism industry have been slow to accept technological and social changes in their field, Hand has continually embraced those changes. These are different tools than we used 30 years ago, but it’s still a process that involves critical thinking. To stay fit, Hand, rides her horse just about every day and works in her garden. When her son became a vegetarian, for example, she came up with a broccoli lasagna. The three stations share studios on James Street/NY 290 in the Near Northeast section of Syracuse; WSTM-TV's transmitter is located in the town of Onondaga, New The coverage was not planned ahead of time. It may not be the hot bed it was in the early 1900s, but there’s still a lot of creativity here,” Hand said of Central New York. She’s been on the job since about 3 a.m. with no plans to rest until it well after it gets dark outside again. She is most known for her roles in Stand, Shameless, The Tomorrow People, Starving in Suburbia and Rings. “Many schools did not accept women.”Hand enjoyed a great deal of success at SU, becoming the first woman to direct the campus radio station, WAER, and graduating a semester early. Inside the CNY Central television news studio on James Street in Syracuse, Laura Hand finished her work for the weekend edition of Today in Central New York, which she anchors and produces. She arrived at the scene quickly enough to provide an eyewitness account of the state police transporting the victims off of their roofs by helicopter.“You can have a pleasant interview or cover a pretty sad story,” she said. Wiggins in 2010. In addition, Hand is responsible for updating CNY Central’s daily events calendar, and making sure the station is compliant with FCC regulations.“I just keep doing my job,” she says, “and my job is more than just the news.”As a producer, Hand has a say on which national or international stories her station will run.
Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, it is a sister station to low-powered CW affiliate WSTQ-LP; Sinclair also operates CBS affiliate WTVH through joint sales and shared services agreements with owner Granite Broadcasting. Over the years she has modified some of the recipes to cut down on the calories or accommodate her children’s tastes.
Her father, Clifton Hand, was a soldier. WSTM-TV usually featured more live reports from the field during a breaking news event.In mid-December 2010, WSTM-TV became the first television station in the On April 13, 2015, WTVH reintroduced separately-produced local newscasts airing weekday mornings (from 5 to 7 a.m.) and weekdays at noon (seen for a half-hour) with a dedicated anchor and Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with [Syracuse's Channel 5 cuts at least 40 workers, guts news division] [Central New York television stations join forces] Owned by South Sound Broadcasting, Sinclair programs this station, as a simulcast of KOMO (AM).
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And the best part about broadcasting still hasn’t changed: It’s never the same two days in a row.”Hand has taught journalism courses at Onondaga Community College, Le Moyne College and Syracuse University, and has also found time over the years to take on charity work, including the Toys for Tots program and a local Tour de Cure event to benefit the American Diabetes Association.In her spare time, Hand enjoys gardening during the warmer months and horseback riding year round. Rockefeller. After work, she heads home for an afternoon of horseback riding in the snow.“It’s more fun,” she says, to stay busy. “I’ve enjoyed what I do here and I’ll keep at it. Hand spent ample time in her mother’s home town of Trieste, Italy, and still visits there regularly. View Laura Hand's business profile . Hand is especially proud of her grandmother’s Italian cookbook, written in 1931. The same "On March 27, 2006, Raycom Media announced the sale of WSTM-TV and WSTQ-LP to On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WSTM-TV and the SSA for WTVH, to Due to its low-powered status, WSTQ-LP's off-air signal is only attainable in the immediate Syracuse area (northern and eastern boundary is roughly Local news offerings on this station originally consisted of ten-minute-long capsules; this effort would not be expanded to thirty-minute full newscasts until the 1960s.
I tell kids, if you want to be in this business, you need to learn how to play ‘Jeopardy.’”Cooking is another passion.
Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, it is a sister station to low-powered CW affiliate WSTQ-LP; Sinclair also operates CBS affiliate WTVH through joint sales and shared services agreements with owner Granite Broadcasting. Over the years she has modified some of the recipes to cut down on the calories or accommodate her children’s tastes.
Her father, Clifton Hand, was a soldier. WSTM-TV usually featured more live reports from the field during a breaking news event.In mid-December 2010, WSTM-TV became the first television station in the On April 13, 2015, WTVH reintroduced separately-produced local newscasts airing weekday mornings (from 5 to 7 a.m.) and weekdays at noon (seen for a half-hour) with a dedicated anchor and Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with [Syracuse's Channel 5 cuts at least 40 workers, guts news division] [Central New York television stations join forces] Owned by South Sound Broadcasting, Sinclair programs this station, as a simulcast of KOMO (AM).
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. “But we found a way. View the profiles of people named Laura Hand. Laura Hand next to meteorologist Wayne Mahar, behind an ice set by carver Stan Koloko in 2015, just before Syracuse Winterfest.
And the best part about broadcasting still hasn’t changed: It’s never the same two days in a row.”Hand has taught journalism courses at Onondaga Community College, Le Moyne College and Syracuse University, and has also found time over the years to take on charity work, including the Toys for Tots program and a local Tour de Cure event to benefit the American Diabetes Association.In her spare time, Hand enjoys gardening during the warmer months and horseback riding year round. Rockefeller. After work, she heads home for an afternoon of horseback riding in the snow.“It’s more fun,” she says, to stay busy. “I’ve enjoyed what I do here and I’ll keep at it. Hand spent ample time in her mother’s home town of Trieste, Italy, and still visits there regularly. View Laura Hand's business profile . Hand is especially proud of her grandmother’s Italian cookbook, written in 1931. The same "On March 27, 2006, Raycom Media announced the sale of WSTM-TV and WSTQ-LP to On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WSTM-TV and the SSA for WTVH, to Due to its low-powered status, WSTQ-LP's off-air signal is only attainable in the immediate Syracuse area (northern and eastern boundary is roughly Local news offerings on this station originally consisted of ten-minute-long capsules; this effort would not be expanded to thirty-minute full newscasts until the 1960s.
I tell kids, if you want to be in this business, you need to learn how to play ‘Jeopardy.’”Cooking is another passion.