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94.1 KMPS is searching for the next night star in country music!

This requirement may be a stumbling block for some here though: "Demonstrated ratings success in your current or most recent market position"

Oh, and must be able to voicetrack a full five hour show in 30 minutes..
 
Kelly A said:
This requirement may be a stumbling block for some here though: "Demonstrated ratings success in your current or most recent market position"
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This, of course, is one of the greatest challenges for developing radio talent these days.

The low paid weekend and overnight shifts, with the opportunity to fill in on day parts and create a great set of sample tracks and a resume have all but dried up in the industry. So how does anyone "demonstrate ratings success" when there are so few slots available to "demonstrate ratings success."

Thus, if they are saying they want someone who is an established day part DJ somewhere else, then you are essentially only picking through a declining pool of talent. As some have noted elsewhere on the boards, this is part of the death spiral in radio, where there are no longer opportunities for new radio talent to develop, and many who have the passion, the voice, and the ambition just turn to other mediums because it is so hard to break in. When slots open like this at KMPS, the remaining qualified talent pool is very small.
 
While I agree that there's longer a way on terrestrial radio for new talent to break in, there are other ways to get a foot in the door, just like how some musicians used social media to bypass traditional A&R departments. If you really want to work in the biz you'll find a way in.
 
KMan said:
So how does anyone "demonstrate ratings success" when there are so few slots available to "demonstrate ratings success."
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Seattle is a major market. There are hundreds of smaller markets where there are lots of people working in rated dayparts who are waiting for a chance to move up the food chain. This is one such opportunity.
 
"must be able to run live broadcasts and follow a format". Boy, that's a tall order! Sounds like maybe they just let somebody go who played a Beatles song when they weren't supposed to.
 
WHAT??? You mean I CAN'T just waltz into the studio completely unprepared and high as a kite with an album of mor lam Country music from Laos on my MacBook to plug in the board??? SHEESH!!! Next thing you know, they're going to say they AREN'T KOL-FM anymore and that they're run by CBS now...
 
Bongwater said:
WHAT??? You mean I CAN'T just waltz into the studio completely unprepared and high as a kite with an album of mor lam Country music from Laos on my MacBook to plug in the board??? SHEESH!!! Next thing you know, they're going to say they AREN'T KOL-FM anymore and that they're run by CBS now...
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Sounds like college radio!
 
Kelly A said:
This requirement may be a stumbling block for some here though: "Demonstrated ratings success in your current or most recent market position"

Oh, and must be able to voicetrack a full five hour show in 30 minutes..
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I have demonstrated ratings success at my last country music gig...in a coverage area of 70,000 people we laughed at Arbitrons! However, I can report that requests from local prisoners went up 65% in my time doing swing shifts in the rural southeast!

Any idea what a gig like this would make? My guess is its neither full-time nor well-paying...probably $15-17/hr at 25-30 hrs/week. Plus the hours spent on your own buck updating social media to remain "relevant" (What? You expect me to pay you to go on Facebook?) Something tells me I'd still have to work my PT hotel accounting job just to make ends meet. Crazy part is even if the job is low paying/low hours in one of the most expensive cities in the USA, there will be tons of folks from all over applying for this job.

The sad thing is that the talent pool isn't really that small since radio has made many redundant due to belt tightening. Hell, I'm sure there are dozens of reasonably competent night jocks who are still "on the beach" after Cumulus Nash'd all their local country stations...and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

Oh well, probably not the job for me. I'll put those dusty aircheck cassettes away, go back to basement storage 'B', and crunch some more numbers.

Radio-X
 
Radio-X said:
Oh well, probably not the job for me. I'll put those dusty aircheck cassettes away, go back to basement storage 'B', and crunch some more numbers.

Radio-X
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Smart move. If your airchecks are on "dusty cassettes", then you're likely not the person KMPS is looking to hire. They will probably want someone young and fresh - meaning they'll work for what you estimate the job will pay with the requirements you laid out.
 
Kinda figured that, Rob...most of that was said sarcastically, but as previous threads point out, we here at the Seattle boards need help with our sarcasm detectors (or just creating humorous and understandable sarcasm, for that matter).

And I'll have you know, sir, that my "dusty cassettes" are only 10-12 years old. Us hillbillies in good 'ol Virginny were still using a 10 year old SS32 system, Cool Edit, and recording airchecks on tape as late as 2007. We were the most "high-tech" station in town to boot! And hell, for that matter I'm only in my early/mid-30's!

Yes, still not the person KMPS is looking for as I don't tweet, or snapchat, or instagram, or whatever in the hell the social-media-flavor-of-the-week is. That's a killer if you want to get into any on-air spot at any commercial joint. My only social media is Facebook, where my wall posts are infrequent angry politically-oriented rants. That puts me not in a good position as a nighttime jock on a big-market country station, but as a potential campaign manager for Bernie Sanders! (That too is also a poor attempt at sarcasm/relevant political humor)

Radio-X
(The angry drunk Luddite of the Seattle R-D board, I suppose)
 
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