CSB Media Arts Center

Yeah.

You went to the Connecticut School of Broadcasting-

Oh, yeah

... as a trilingualist.

From the Connecticut School of Broadcasting's Media Arts Center, we're live on Twitch.

With the Bridgeport Zone Podcast, I'm Carlos Ortega.

We've got plenty to talk about.

That's his profession.

He's a director for the movies, but he also was, he worked with the Connecticut School of Broadcasting.

He was a

professor teaching media, you know, programs, things like that.

And then in 2009 they said, "Well, we're gonna let you go because that's just what happened." And then they started bringing me back as a contractor, and so I was still doing it on the margins.

Um, I picked up another job, uh, working at the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Charlotte, and I started, um, teaching there and, and actually running the local campus eventually.

So I was doing all of that juggling.

And then in, uh, 2020 when the pandemic hit, um, I was faced with n- you know, I was no longer contracting with the bank when I was only working, you know, voiceover and I was working for the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, and they cut our hours e- back extremely because how do they, you know, how do they do stuff when everybody was supposed to come to school? And then, um, my parents, um, suffered.

My mother, um, was diagnosed with metastatic cancer in April of 2020 and died the foll- that May.

Mm.

From the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Media Arts Center, it's the Bridgeport Zone Podcast.

I'm Carlos Ortega.

And we're sponsored by Aces Bell Bonds.

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the Connecticut School of Broadcasting? Is that what you're talking about?

[laughs]

Okay, Connecticut School of Broadcasting.

Leveraging these, uh, relationships with the-

Yeah, no doubt