News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
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professor and alternative fuels researcher Dr. Cliff Ricketts discovered how to
drive 2,600 miles without using any gasoline.
And
then the Discovery Channel Canada discovered him.
Freelance
video journalists Anthony May and Greg Simmons, who normally work primarily for
Great American Country and Country Music Television, respectively, were
dispatched March 29 to Mt. Juliet (where Ricketts lives) and to MTSU (where
Ricketts works) for a documentary that will be broadcast at a date to be
announced.
May
and Simmons filmed Ricketts, who completed his cross-country trip on sun and
hydrogen from water on March 14, at his 200-acre farm Friday morning. They then
drove to the university to complete the coverage.
After
May and Simmons set up the lighting and sound in MTSU’s Vocational Agriculture
shop just off Lightning Way, Discovery Channel Canada producer Diego Garcia
conducted the interview by telephone with Ricketts. Later, May and Simmons
added B-roll and campus scenes to complement the interview footage.
Ricketts’ historical drive from Tybee Island, Ga., to
Long Beach, Calif., continues to receive nationwide media attention.
Nationally,
CNN, The Associated Press and USA Today carried coverage of Ricketts’ trip.
Major media markets picking up on the story included KABC in Los Angeles, Fox5
in Atlanta, Gannett-owned properties, Albuquerque and Oklahoma City.
Fox,
ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates around the country aired footage. Newspapers and
radio stations nationwide provided news accounts. Locally, the journey by
Ricketts and his seven-member team of engineers and mechanics was chronicled by
virtually all newspapers, TV and radio stations.
Ricketts
shared with Garcia and the film crew that for his next venture he is
considering a drive, using only one car, from Miami, Fla., to Seattle, Wash.,
and that the “future of fuel” appears to be “nuclear hydrogen.”
Discovery
Channel Canada, based out of both Toronto and Ontario, is a specialty network
devoted to nature, adventure, science and technology programming. The network
is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc., which includes Bell Media, ESPN and
Discovery Communications.
Sister
channels of Discovery Channel Canada include Animal Planet, Discovery Science,
Discovery World and Investigation Discovery. It’s website is http://www.discovery.ca.
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