I'm Alan Alicia here. During the summer of 2016, I interned with BET Networks on their television programming and scheduling team. If you haven't already seen my video on how I got my internship at Google during the summer of 2017, make sure you go click on that video and when I leave the link down here below. I also, if you haven't seen my video on how I got my job at MTV Networks following graduating from college, I'll leave that link down below. Before we get into this video, make sure you like, comment and subscribe. A little quick summary about my background. I'm originally from the Orleans, Louisiana and I went to college at Bar College at Upstate New York. I went there on a full tuition post leadership scholarship at Bar College at the double major and anthropology and also major in film. And while at Bar that had really amazing internship opportunities such as Entering with Energy, I entered with BET Networks, which is what this video was about. I interned at Google with YouTube and then following Bar. I got a job at MTV Networks. I applied to the BET Networks internship during the fall semester of my sophomore year of college. During that time in my sophomore year of campus, I was encouraged to be fellow at the Hanna Arvance Center for Politics and Humanities. With that, I was working on their speaker team, their video team and doing a lot of media things for the center. I was also running part on television, which was a film revolution club on campus. I was serving as a sort of freelance photography and filmmaker. I was on some computer science things with the important information technology center. I was sort of doing a lot on campus. And I knew that that upcoming summer, I wanted to really have an internship in television because prior to that, my first internship was in tech with interviews, so I wanted to get a bit more media experience. As you know, I am a Posse scholar and a part of the Posse Foundation scholarship is that Posse is partnered with lots of different career partners such as Google, NBC, Disney, Biacom, Discovery, Goldman Sachs, Spanket America, so forth and so on. One day, I went to the Posse website and I went on the internship section and I saw that the internship applications for Biacom was open. I'm not sure if the application for Biacom is different now than it was when I applied. But when I applied, Posse asked you to rank which departments you will want to work in. So I put like television production first. I put television development second and I put television programming third. And you don't necessarily pick which network you want to work with. They sort of do that for you. For those of you not familiar with the terms television programming is basically when a network or radio station orders, programs and schedules, content in a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly schedule. Television development is when you brainstorm and create new ideas for a network, whether that be in a show, a stunt, starting from zero. And production is an essence production being on set, things like that. I wrote a couple letters to Posse and I see the Viacom recruiter and I wrote that I would like to intern in these three departments to production, development and programming. I also listed with potential networks I would like to work with. So I put BTC network, MTV networks, VH1, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, so forth and so on. The application process was really quick. So I submitted that email. Then about a week later, I received an email from an assistant on the BTC network television programming team and she was like, hi, Milan, we received your email and your cover letter and your resume. Would you like to have a quick on interview with us? I replied and say I would be delighted to interview with you on the phone about the BTC network television programming team. A few days later, I had that phone interview with someone from the BTC network team and during that phone interview, they asked me a lot of questions on my knowledge of television programming because what programming and scheduling, what you're doing is that you're sort of plugging in the networks programming into a schedule and when you plug it in, the programming goes up on a network during a certain day, a certain time, a certain week, you also create like stunts and stags and you sort of create what people see when they turn on the channel. You're not creating content, but you're creating the schedule that it goes up on air. Literally 24 hours after I had that phone interview, I got an email saying, I'm going to send you a link to welcome you to the BTC networks programming team and I was like, oh wow, this is fast, but yes, I'll accept. And so that's sort of quickly how I became an intern at BTC networks and I'll sort of frequently go over what I did during my internship there. During my internship with BTC networks, I collaborated daily with my team and especially with my senior manager at the time and we will work on strategies to improve BTC networks short term and long term programming strategies. That could be anything from acquiring new content from other networks such as airing something like a Tyler Perry, so they did it originally air on BTC networks, our French Prince, which they can originally air on BTC networks, but we know that that's something that our audience would want to see, that's something we would sort of bring us home to see how acquired content would fit onto our network. Every week I would also use NOSEN and Sartre to analyze the ratings of how our content had performed in the week or month prior. The thing about programming is that of course you want to create a schedule and program things that your audience actually wants to see. And so I would go into NOSEN and start checking new these analysis of our content and then we would have a week meeting to see if we needed to remove things on a schedule, rearranging things on a schedule or just in general change the entire programming schedule. And that would happen a lot. One cool thing about programming is that it's creative in a way that you're constantly puzzling mapping and puzzling making and creating new formats of showing content to your audience. I would also track our competitive programming, I would look at what other networks were air and I would sort of create schedules so that we can compete with those networks during a certain day part, a certain week, a certain month. So if I knew that, so when Sochrana was airing a premiere on Tuesday at 7 p.m., I would be like, hi, we should air something to compete with this network at 7 p.m. on next Tuesday. So it was sort of great to be able to see what other networks were airing, what their ratings were and how we could compete with that. That's the lead to make sure that BET network is also getting that viewership that other networks were getting. And also work on some projects where I would help to create stats and stunts for the networks. Sacks are sort of when programming is organized consistently at a daytime throughout the week and a stunt is sort of like a marathon. For example, my manager asked me to research from stunts for the upcoming holiday season, which was cool because one of my stunts actually made it on air so for that Thanksgiving of 2016 in November, I researched a Nadi Professor's stun. I was like, we should air all the nutty professors that we have in our programming book. We should put on air for Thanksgiving because it's a filming show, it's a black film we showed and people would want to watch that. And so, you're not Thanksgiving when I was home with my family, we turned the BET networks and behold, we saw the Nadi Professor on air. The thing we're programming is that you can actually see your work have an impact immediately. So if you schedule something to air the following day, our following week on Wednesday at 8 p.m. You turn on the network that next Wednesday at 8 p.m. you see what you scheduled on air. It's a very rewarding feeling. That is what I did at the BET networks in a nutshell. The majority of the time it was a lot of collaborated with my team on creating programming schedules, creating debts and things of that sort. The team at the BET networks was very helpful and supportive. And I still sort of see some of them in an office today since I'm currently at biocomit and TV networks. And so whenever I see them all, you know, say hi, I just like a quick conversation. So it's great to still have that support even to know even three years later when I'm not even in turn there anymore. This is BET networks. When I interned here, BET was actually across the street at biocomit. I've been building with a thinker trying to centralize everyone in this one building in time square. My highlights while interning at BET networks was seeing Mac Miller. So Mac Miller came to the office when he was premiering at the mic. And when I'm an album, what you wrote about me, of course, just kidding. But I really, and truly dearly miss Mac. It was really great to be able to see him in person. And here the album before it was released. We also met young Emma when she first came out and when she first dropped that O song, DJ Drummond, he came out with his last album. I met many amazing people. There were also lots of events for the interns throughout that summer. There were lots of opportunities for the interns to meet in Mingo. The biocomst students can put through a lot of summer socials here. There were lots of performances, lots of meeting rates, food, events, drink events. So it was just great to sort of meet other interns from other networks that biocombal I was interning with BET. And of course, the main highlight of me interning at BET is that that was the first time I had ever lived in New York City. I was sort of letting an apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. It was my first time living here. My first time living in Brooklyn. And so I thought that Brooklyn was just like Brooklyn. I did it in order to have a neighborhood in Brooklyn. And so one day I like walked from Crown Heights all the way to Baratway Junction because I thought that that it's where Williamsburg was. It was just like really weird, but I just had a really great time in turning at BET and living in New York City. And I'm in New York City now. I am TV Networks, which is really cool. All in all, I had a really amazing experience in turning for BET Networks. I learned a lot about television programming, television scheduling, marketing, acquisitions, distribution, and a lot of other things that cool into making a successful television network. I'm sure there's lots of things I didn't answer in this video. So if you have any questions about my institute read Google, and if you want to get five, count working yet by, come or any questions related to media, leave those questions down below. And those so once again, make sure you go watch my video on how I got my internship at Google, how I got my job at MTV Networks, and make sure you like, comment, subscribe. And I'll see you in the next video. Bye.