When I was a kid my mother won me a mini-bike on the radio, and one of the other “prizes” was that we got to make a commercial for the local motorcycle shop. Used to play every day during the Spiderman cartoon show after school. Don’t recall any other, although I’m sure I was probably caught on camera during college football games in the marching band.
Yep. My mother’s shop was on the local news twice, and in Japan I’ve been interviewed once, and been on TV once in the background as part of an official ceremony about a new local government program.
In 2007 my friend and I dressed up like witches and went to the midnight release party for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The local NBC news station came to the bookstore and interviewed some people and filmed some of the festivities. At one point, the cameraman asked us to pretend to be reading, look up into the camera and then wave. So, not only were we on the news that night, they used our footage all evening for the little 10 second promos that run during commercial breaks to get you to watch the 11 o’clock news.
I was interviewed by a local news station several years ago. There was a massive mass transit problem and I was asked (at a transit station) how I was dealing. I didn’t stay up to see it on the 11 pm news but I did a web search for it the next day - saw it once.
I was on TV at a Florida Marlins game on around July 4th one year. My friends and I were in the hot tub, and they showed us at one point.
At least one of my co-workers noticed me and mentioned it the next day.
I was also on at the beginning of an FSU basketball game.
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In 1981, I was one of 6 high school students who were the subject of a documentary that were the first American high school students to study in China. At least that’s what we were led to believe. I don’t think there was anyway to verify it. It was called “Project: China” and it won a Peabody award.
The only time I remember for sure was back in the late 60’s or early 70’s when I was on the local Noon show to promote something to do with local chess activity.
Another time I was in that same building but I think it was on radio to plug a play I was in. I have this vague feeling that I was in some background shot of some event where I was a spectator, an innocent bystander, or a face in the crowd, but I can’t remember details.
I worked in radio off and on over a five year span with a total of roughly three years here and there, but I don’t remember any of that time involving TV.
I haven’t, but one of my brothers gets on TV about once a year along with his wife.
Pilares is one of the biggest fiestas in Spain: it’s the fiesta of Saragossa and takes place about October 12 (Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar, patron of Hispanity, Saragossa and the Guardia Civil). Saragossa is the capital of Aragon. Bro got married in late 2000: next year, his wife Requested and Required him to go to the Floral Offering with her; she wanted him in Aragonese regional dress but he said no way: he’s Navarrese and would therefore wear “Sanfermines-style” red’n’whites. They got interviewed for the local TV station; there are other people who go in red’n’whites but they’re in groups, they’re not one dude surrounded by folk in local dress.
They got interviewed again next year. And the next. And the next. They’ve been on national channels once and on channels from other regions six times if I’m not miscounting. Now the set is “wife and two cute kids in Aragonese dress, husband in red’n’whites” - and yes, they got interviewed last year too.
I’ve been on several times. A few quick tips: Makeup is good. It helps keep you from looking like a brain dead zombie. Be kind and flirtatious to the makeup lady.
Be animated. By which I mean, WAY more animated than seems normal at 6 am. Think vivacious, energetic, lively, full of excitement. If you just act like you normally act at 6 am, you’ll come off dull and boring.
Think and talk in short sound bites. And smile! Work with the folks who get up at 3 am!
I was inexplicably on camera a number of times while working as a radio reporter. Mrs. J. would report seeing me on local TV news - the cameraman shooting video for one or more of the local TV stations at major events like city council meetings would do reaction shots of me with my tape recorder and microphone. Maybe I wasn’t very good at concealing incredulity when public officials were telling outrageous lies.
I was on WGN’s Bozo Show in the late 60s.
I waved. 
Later, I was featured on a Nashville TV News show. They had an automated kiosk that filmed interviews. Fun idea.
I never saw the interview.
I was told about it later. 
Yes. I was on my high school’s Hi-Q team and on two different shows that were aired locally.
Also, once I was on TV without realizing it at the time. It was back in the 80s, when the Americans who had been hostages in Iran came back to the U.S. I lived in New York, and a group of us drove up to West Point to welcome them home–they were coming from the airport on a private coach headed for West Point for a while, where they were debriefed or whatever. Lots of people, TV networks, etc., showed up for the event, and at one point I got separated from my group and was wandering around looking for them and apparently ended up on ABC national nightly news doing so, because several people contacted me saying they saw me and that I looked lost. That was a really cool thing to experience firsthand. Not the getting lost part–the “welcome home hostages” part. Somewhere I still have a button they were giving out that day.
Four times in interviews (three solo one in a panel), national TV.
Three times on national (Dutch) tv.
Once in a documentary about my dad, where I got interviewed about how it was to have an inventor as a dad. Once in college, when they wanted students to discuss whatever was the topic du jour. And once as an contestant on the Dutch version on Jeopardy. I recently found the footage again.
I was on WWTBAM in January 2001 (taped 12/00). I did make it into the hot seat, but fanned on the $8000 question (“What does a snood cover?”)