Jeff's Commentary - 7/1 - AZ-TV Is Our Family Too

Most of us spend far more time with our fellow employees at work than we do with our own families.

It’s simply a part of life. Hopefully you like the people you work with and for, because of the effort and energy that happens each week at your job and interaction with an office environment.

And like any family, there are the ups and downs of everyday life. You learn about one another. You learn about their families. You learn about dreams and you learn about failure. You start to share when the levels of trust grow between one another. You begin to depend on each other for the little things, sharing in the good times and bad.

At AZ-TV, we are a small company. With less than 50 employees, we live, breathe and become AZ-TV for a good part of our days. The love and dedication of the employees here are such that we are our own “family”. And so when something happens to one of us, it happens to all of us. The past six months, Bob Dey, who is one of our sales people, has been dealing with his wife’s cancer. All of us at the station have learned more about cancer and the tentacles of destruction that it leaves. On Tuesday his wife of 40+ years passed. And so our family mourned.

On Wednesday, another one of our family members revealed more heartbreak. Lisa Schneider-Cipriano, who co-hosts The McMahon Group with Pat and Angela, told our audience and us that she has breast cancer. If you haven’t seen the segment, CLICK HERE where the segment will be titled "Lisa’s Battle with Breast Cancer." So again we mourn.

But we are all there for one another through all of this. We all pick up the pieces so that each of us can continue to move forward. If the journey of life happens at work for a good part of the day, then the road we are on at AZ-TV has been one well traveled and we stop to make sure none of us are left behind. That’s what families do. So on this 4th of July weekend, where we celebrate our country and freedom, let’s also take time to celebrate that family you work with. Those people who dedicate more than time cards and a paycheck to make sure we continue to take care of one another in the greatest country in the world.

Jeff