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They have a bunch of people in the background using them apparently, not just the hosts. Do those people actually do work, or are they just 'extras'? Are they actually even there, or is looped footage of them bluescreened in?

Seems like an awful job if they are actually real, having to sit at a desk with a tv camera pointed at your back the entire time...

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At the tv station where I was last employed, they decided to change the format of their newscasts by filming in the newsroom... so if you happened to be cutting packages together for the next newscast or whatever you ended up in the background.

It did kind of suck.

I bet moonlighting at that job is actually a welcome change from the smell of the stables. Granted, being a jockey is probably lots of fun during those all-too-brief sprints around the track, but the rest of the time, I'd want to be as far away from horses as possible.

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