What is the likelihood of applying to a remote small market New Mexico station and getting a regular airshift. I'll work for $500 a week, and find an efficiency weekly hotel nearby.
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Possibility of a New Mexico radio position.
- Thread starter rockradiopurist
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I realize there are all sorts of situations out here. It is quite rare today to find a remote small market station having an airshift position.
Most small stations are automated except for the morning show that is just as likely to be hosted by the owner as not.
You don't mention your experience in the business. If you bring value to the table, then you might have a shot.
Can you sell airtime? If not learn this. Can you voicetrack a show? If not, learn. Can you do play by play sports or news? If you can, there's more value. Can you do some engineering?
Here's the big question: is your lifestyle choices a positive reflection on the station. If you smoke pot or tend to get fall down drunk or you court high school girls, then you might not find that image reflects well on the station. Everybody knows your business in a small town and even more so in a remote small market.
Maybe you can find a weekly motel room, maybe not.
Make sure you know what the owner is like and how the community perceives the station before you say yes. Billing at the station might not allow $500 a week pay. If you can sell, you can bring in the difference.
Most small stations are automated except for the morning show that is just as likely to be hosted by the owner as not.
You don't mention your experience in the business. If you bring value to the table, then you might have a shot.
Can you sell airtime? If not learn this. Can you voicetrack a show? If not, learn. Can you do play by play sports or news? If you can, there's more value. Can you do some engineering?
Here's the big question: is your lifestyle choices a positive reflection on the station. If you smoke pot or tend to get fall down drunk or you court high school girls, then you might not find that image reflects well on the station. Everybody knows your business in a small town and even more so in a remote small market.
Maybe you can find a weekly motel room, maybe not.
Make sure you know what the owner is like and how the community perceives the station before you say yes. Billing at the station might not allow $500 a week pay. If you can sell, you can bring in the difference.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
As is fairly well known, I consult the stations Don Davis owns -- either as an individual or via Vanguard Media -- in New Mexico, and program one of his Albuquerque stations directly (remote from Los Angeles with the automation there in ABQ). So I have a bit more perspective about radio in that state.
I am seeing a lot of the smaller stations in the lesser-populated communities of NM selling out. Many of the ones that are left are simply plugged into a satellite-delivered format or something similar. Don is providing the programming to KFLH up in Chama from Albuquerque, and it has no airstaff. Period.
As b-turner said above:
This is an unfortunate reality brought on by the financial realities radio faces in the wake of expanding alternative technologies. Much as I love the internet, I sometimes find myself wishing that either streaming had not been invented or that it would exist only as an extension of broadcast.
I am seeing a lot of the smaller stations in the lesser-populated communities of NM selling out. Many of the ones that are left are simply plugged into a satellite-delivered format or something similar. Don is providing the programming to KFLH up in Chama from Albuquerque, and it has no airstaff. Period.
As b-turner said above:
This is an unfortunate reality brought on by the financial realities radio faces in the wake of expanding alternative technologies. Much as I love the internet, I sometimes find myself wishing that either streaming had not been invented or that it would exist only as an extension of broadcast.
What are your goals? Have you considered a community and/ or college station. You won't get paid but that might be your quickest route if you are looking for an on air position. The problem with small market stations in NM is most are either run by suits in a corporate office hundreds of miles away with a only a token local presence. Or they are part of local radio groups that are run out of Albuquerque or Santa Fe. There can't be more than a tiny handful of locally programmed small market stations left in the entire State.
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