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<\/a>Hunt gradually increased her level of responsibility, eventually working as a coordinating producer then digital producer for \u201cAs the World Turns\u201d and leading the development of a digital production department. Her path to success was simple: when someone was sick, she volunteered to fill in; when openings on the production staff occurred, she often\u00a0volunteered to gain on-the-job training. She eventually earned positions producing such favorites as \u201cAnother World,\u201d \u201cAs the World Turns,\u201d and \u201cGuiding Light.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the Cheyenne Mountain High School and 1996 CU-Boulder graduate, the world of daytime drama was filled with deadlines, production schedules, and a constant demand to do more with less as the broadcast industry changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey say the O.J. Simpson trial was the beginning of the end of soaps and the start of reality TV,\u201d Hunt says of the 1996 trial, the same year she graduated from CU Boulder. \u201cI got into the business expecting to be there for six months and it turned out to be 14 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunt is proud of her two Emmy Awards as well as innovations that allowed five episodes to be recorded in only four days as financial pressures mounted and cancellation threats loomed. She also helped form a digital production company, learning\u00a0techniques unimaginable when she studied television production at CU-Boulder. Those techniques included the idea of publishing to a website instead of relying on NBC\u2019s airwaves. She\u2019s even tried her hand at reality TV, helping to produce pilots for a home makeover show and another depicting two former soap stars trying to make it in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
After \u201cAs the World Turns\u201d was cancelled in 2010, the pull to return to Colorado Springs grew stronger for Hunt. She wanted to raise her two sons,\u00a0Emerson\u00a0and Will, close to family and near the mountains. A Dec. 2011 job posting to fill the position once held by the late Mark Bell seemed made to order. She combined a visit with family and a search committee\u00a0interview, accepted the position in January, moved in late February and in March joined the two other members of the department, Media Specialists Ben Sloan and Angie Kinnett.<\/p>\n
She hopes to apply the production and management skills learned in New York to UCCS, growing the Media Services Department and developing original UCCS programs for both the Web and television. One idea is to produce a television magazine show highlighting UCCS community-directed efforts to air on Comcast Channel 20.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lighting grid here that people in New York would envy,\u201d Hunt said of the production studio in El Pomar Center. \u201cOur challenge is to use it effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n
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