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!PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE! THIS IS ALL ABOUT ME ANTON "A-TRAIN " MOORE! THIS IS A VERY INSPIRATIONAL NEWS ARTICLE WHICH FOCUSES ON MY CAREER IN RADIO AND T.V! Anton Moore has never taken no for an answer. Interning without pay at Black Entertainment Television last year could’ve had him rethinking his dream of becoming an entertainment CEO. Instead, the resident of 20th Street and Snyder Avenue took the bus to New York three days a week, ate cheese and crackers to get by and spent countless nights stranded in the Big Apple’s bus stations because he was too broke to get home. Those hardships are now paying off. Although only a college sophomore, the 20-year-old has been named a full-time production assistant at the cable television network’s New York office. Since being hired in July, Moore has been working on “Rap City,” a program that airs 5 p.m. weekdays and features the latest DJs, music, videos and celebrity interviews. “I always knew I wanted to be in the entertainment industry,” the 2004 graduate of Southwest Philly’s Bartram School of Motivation, now Motivation High School, said. The impetus to achieve his ideal career earned him a spotlight in the Verizon “Realize” campaign when he was only 19. The multimedia marketing initiative focused on community entrepreneurs and activists who use the company’s broadband services to achieve their life goals. As part of the project, Moore spoke to audiences about how broadband helped him succeed in school and at work. He also was featured on billboards in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and received $5,000, which helped pay for traveling expenses during his BET internship. “Since I was 7 years old, I’d always leave the radio on at night,” Moore said. “I always had that drive, love, passion for music. I eat, breathe, sleep music.” While interning in BET’s talent department from September 2005 until July, Moore helped book artists for “Rap City.” Five months into the internship, he ran out of money for traveling costs. Sometimes after work, he would tell his mother, Danine, he was staying at a friend’s house and sleep at a bus station, using his schoolbag as a pillow. When Danine finally learned the real story months later, she recalled telling him, “You better not do it again.” Moore never relayed his extreme situation to his internship supervisor, either. “They’d only know I was a young boy from Philly, coming here three days a week, trying to make things work,” he said. Growing up in Tasker Homes public housing in Grays Ferry, Moore was one of five kids in a single-parent family. Surrounded by the violence and crime that plagued his area, he said this atmosphere helped motivate him to succeed. “When you see bad things, you want better,” Moore, who interned at Power 99FM when he was only 14, said. “There’s still young people out there like me who are working hard.” That drive was never more apparent than when he went to the sixth annual BET Awards in June in Los Angeles. Since the network didn’t have enough money in the budget to fly him out, Moore told them he’d make it there on his own. His cousin had promised to get him a plane ticket, but it fell though at the last minute. “What am I gonna do?” Moore remembered asking himself. “I don’t care what happens. I’m gonna get to L.A.” He ended up sneaking onto a cross-country bus with $70 and a broken cell phone in his pocket, which he used to retrieve saved telephone numbers. “He could’ve gotten the money from anybody,” Moore’s mother said. “He was so determined to do it himself.” A member of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia cleaning staff, Danine and the rest of the family thought he was going by plane. Two months later, Mom learned the truth when hip-hop/R&B radio station 100.3 The Beat featured it as a story. She cried when she heard the news. “I said, ‘I don’t believe this,’” she recalled, adding, “this is something he wants to do. He’s determined.” Moore made it as far as St. Louis before the bus staff realized he didn’t have a ticket. But turning back never crossed his mind. “I came this far,” he remembered thinking. “I have to make this happen. This is something I need to do.” Moore called his former eighth-grade teacher and mentor, who wired him $180, which arrived 21 minutes before the last western-heading bus of the night was leaving. (Moore paid back the money a few months later.) The next morning, Moore met up with his party in L.A., where Penny McDonald, BET’s senior creative director, heard his story and offered him a job on the spot. After the show, Moore flew back to Philadelphia, courtesy of BET. It was his first time on a plane. The next week, he started his job as a production assistant. “Everybody always told me you’re not gonna do this, you’re not gonna do that,” Moore said. “Even though things get tough, you have to tell yourself that tomorrow is going to be a better day.” Matt Smith, Moore’s current supervisor and executive producer of “Rap City,” was amazed by his story. “That’s an out-of-the-ordinary experience,” Smith, who was in L.A. for the awards show, said. “Over the years, you come across people who have that drive. [But] it’s few and far in between. [Moore] stands out because of that drive.” Seven months after the journey to California, Moore’s still aiming high. Currently taking .. classes at Community College of Philadelphia, Moore commutes to work in New York every day and plans to continue undergraduate Web-based studies at Temple in the fall. He hopes to earn his bachelor’s in communications in two years. The visionary also is halfway done with his first book, “Life as an Intern,” which offers advice and personal anecdotes to hard workers just starting out. Moore hopes to wrap up the work, which was mostly written on the way to L.A., by January ’08. “You’re gonna have to embrace the struggle,” Moore said. “But you have to turn that struggle into a success story.”