Ditto.
Many times. First time was back in college, our skydiving club set up bungee jumping at the local fairground and they interviewed me on the local news.
Then a few years ago a friend and I had our 15 minutes of fame doing something amusing. We did a lot of TV, radio and print interviews. I had a Fox news affiliate news truck in front of my house one night, Rusty Dornin from CNN did a story from inside my garage, etc. It was a lot of fun but I can see why people doing book tours or promoting their new movie or whatever get really tired of it really fast - if you’re being asked the same questions over and over you get into a routine pretty quickly and the responses become sort of canned.
In college I was on a WTAE (Pittsburgh) news segment after our editor wrote a “controversial” piece about Catholics.
I’m partially visible in the Christmas episode of Las Vegas. You can see me on the “Stride” episode of The Loop (Season 2) and – my favorite – I’m in the Roger Daltrey episode of CSI! 
It’s a crowd scene but I’m there. I was also on Ghost Whisperer, Big Love and 24.
I miss living in LA.
Several times. I was on a local show called “Teen Talk” in my long-ago youth. I’ve appeared a few times on the local news for man-on-the-street interviews: twice related to the Dodgers (once with my face painted and an outrageous blue-and-white wig on), and once while attending the public viewing for Chick Hearn when he died.
I was also visible on TV as part of a legal team during a press conference for a very high-profile criminal case. The fun part of that is that the caption for a picture that appeared in a newspaper for that press conference provided the names of the other folks at the podium, and then, in reference to me, read, “Man in background is unidentified.” I was called “Unidentified Man” around the office for some time after that.
My dogs & I were on TV several times when I was an active member of a canine therapy group, we had news coverage two or three times. Also, at an obedience trial once I was briefly interviewed, but the best part of that one was when the cameraman knelt down and my Gordon, Fancy, walked right up to him and stuck her nose on the camera lens. It was very cute.
I was on T4GTech TV’s “Call For Help” twice, doing demos for my company’s products (one was a web-based digital agent, the other a robot that taught Japanese kids English). Leo Laporte was the host, and we chatted for a bit before the segments. I was also interviewed on a local Japanese-language program about the same products. Oh, and somehow shots of me from the Japanese show ended up in the Japanese edition of United’s in-flight magazine, along with a short story about our company.
My whole family has been on TV, and not together.
I was on Jeopardy. My wife was interviewed on NJ Network. Younger daughter was on a handwashing segment for Good Morning America, and on a TV news show from Turkey. And older daughter actually got paid for it, being on a few commercials and a series.
Younger daughter had a kind of distorted view of things. Her best friend’s father was a high level official in NJ, and was on the news all the time. Watching it her friend’s father on TV, she asked “Did he have to audition to get on there?”
Four times that I know of. The first there was a strike or something happening at my elementary and they were asking questions of some students. I was in the coatroom when they filmed us getting ready for recess.
Next was a shot of me walking near my highschool with a bunch of others. Lots of gang stuff happening at that time and our school was regularly on the news.
After that, around the same time, I got to ride this bike that held… 30 people I think? It was to bring attention to a charity bike ride and the host of the morning show sat on the seat next to me to interview the guy who was doing the talking. Then that summer I was part of the opening ceremonies for the 2001 IAAF Championships (track and field sports). I was part of the river, and somewhere still have a video tape of it as well as several mementoes. That was televised worldwide iirc.
Whoa, a little Google reminiscing demonstrates that Call For Help put pics from the shows on Flickr. :eek:
Um, sorry to burst out with that. It’s just a little shocking.
I was on a local kiddie show, The Trooper Yancy Show, when I was a kid. I was on a local high school quiz show, Scholars for Dollars, where our team won in the first round and lost in the second. And I was on a local college quiz show that didn’t even have a name, where we lost (undeservedly as it turned out).
I was interviewed for local TV with taco meat all over my pants a few years ago. I was doing a fundraiser for a local doctor who has a medical mission to Chiapas in Mexico, and right before the interview a tray of taco meat spilled all over me. Fortunately you couldn’t see my pants in the interview.
And yet that wasn’t my most memorable local TV interview. Right after I moved back to the US a local mayor was charged with aiding and abetting a murder during a race riot 30 years previously. The local cable access station did some on-the-street interviews about the case, and I was one of the people interviewed. So the next day I watched the show. There was the interviewer introducing the segment in the studio, and the first couple of people were very cautious…“Well, we should weigh the evidence…it was a long time ago…” Then they come to me last, and they had to take the part of the interview where I said something on the order of “I think they should try this case if there’s enough evidence, and if he’s found guilty he should go to jail for a long time! Murder is murder!”
Then the interviewer came back live to the mayor’s attorney, who had suddenly turned a sickly pale shade of green.
Several times, for me. Heck, back in the late '80s I was actually doing a news broadcast for a dinky UHF station in southern Iowa, so I was on TV every night. It was only five minutes, and it was taped during the afternoon and broadcast at 10 pm, and the studio was in an old McDonald’s building, and only about 16 people were watching - but it was TV news!
Prior to that I also did play-by-play for Central College football for four years on public access cable. That was a really, really fun experience. Again, we videotaped the game and replayed it on the cable system during the week, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Plus I got trips to Moorhead, Minnesota and San Antonio out of the deal (I preferred San Antonio, surprise, surprise … although it’s a reaaalllly long drive from Iowa).
I also had a quick appearance in a local TV news story about air traffic controllers back in the early 1990s, when I was just a fresh young face in the ATC biz. And I’ve done a couple of commercials locally, although the only one that I remember airing was for a greyhound park and casino, where I expressed great excitement when my ‘wife’ won big on the slots.
But almost without a doubt, my most memorable TV appearances were two summers ago. I was inside a local credit union (the only customer inside the building) when it was robbed at gunpoint. A pretty tense situation, as you might imagine, although one I spent mostly face-down on the floor. Both local TV stations got interviews with me a day or so afterwards … although I couldn’t offer anything about identification (the robber was covered almost head to toe, with a cap, a bandana over his face, and sunglasses), they were interested in my reactions and how I told the tale.
Well, except for the one station. They really enjoyed sensationalized news … so for their interview they just filmed my shadow on the ground as I talked to them. You know, in case the robber wanted to come after me and “not leave any witnesses.” As long as he didn’t watch my interview on the other station, of course.
Boy, I guess I’ve been on TV way more than I realized.
Once on the local news for about a second, right after 9/11 when I went with the kids to an open house at the nearby mosque. Possibly coming up this September when the USA version of The X Factor airs, as a backstage family member rooting for an auditioning contestant who was painfully rejected. I hope it does not air.
Most recently I was interviewed during a taping of one of our minor-league hockey team’s games. A (former) friend of mine was trying to get into journalism and the cable-access channel let her do some fan interviews to air during the game broadcasts.
I was also on TV once as a kid because I won a prize in the school science fair.
You couldn’t tell it was me but a brief flicker was probably visible at some points during ESPN? when I was in the BC Marching Band.
I have also just made my grand Japanese TV debut. I led a group in the Tsugaru-ben Taikai, a local dialect skit competition, and I was visible on a news segment for about half a second. It’s a start 
Yes, lots - but it’s part of my job.
Three times when it was just me. (Heaps more, because I was in a high ranking California HS band and a drum and bugle corp.)
Twice, about 15 years apart in separate states, for being robbed at gunpoint while at work. The one when I lived in Vegas was the more exciting of the two, it was a casino robbery. That one got me sitting on the back of a cop car.
Once it was me and others standing outside the Hard Rock when they brought out John Entwhistle’s body.
I was once interviewed about something I was involved with by a local news channel, but it was broadcast all over Sweden by stations in the network not having their own local news. I have also by chance seen myself in the background of a trailer for some talk show.
Back in 2008, we were in the SF LGBTQQ (needs more letters!) parade, which was coincidentally the day after we got married. One of the TV stations spied us and snagged us for a quick live interview.
Besides the three I mentioned in the OP, I may have been on a really super-local station last summer. I was on vacation, and waiting to go see a local standup comic. Suddenly someone stuck a camera in my face and asked what I thought of the comic. I have no idea if it aired.
I’m not sure what it was for. It couldn’t have been a promo for that performance, and the guy only performs once a year.