15 Hosting
Hosting encompasses a parade of jobs including hosting parades. The skills needed as a television host are pretty much the same no matter what the hosting job; but the job can vary from announcing a hot air balloon named Kermit to announcing a hottie in a bathing suit.
Talk show hosts are usually in a studio, either seated in a living room-type set or standing in the audience. They can be Oprah on couches or serious news hosts at a desk. Or they can be afternoon syndicated shows where the host urges on some outrageous interview, often with audience participation.
They can be late-night comics or Sunday morning preachers.
And on cable, the music outlets like MTV and VH1 produce programs that require hosts for awards programs, pageants ...
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