Steve Ketelaar of Legends 100.3 in West Palm Beach is visiting his parents in Kansas for Thanksgiving and it sounds like he's right there in the studio doing his show, but he just admitted where he really was.
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A Florida DJ does his show from Kansas just today
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So?
Very common place and easy to do today.
I do the afternoon show for Hits 106 Laramie, WY via VT'ing from Alaska, have for 4 years.
And, using our fancy new automation system, about 2 months ago, i went live via my starlink connection from AK to WY and it was flawless.
In otherwords, youre saying, the sun rose today when you tell us this
Where in Kansas?
This has been common for some time. This isn't 4 decades ago when Tom Joyner Commuted to Chicago and Dallas at the time to do two distinct drive time shows in Dallas and Chicago. Yes at that time it was incredible to do two separate local radio shows by commuting in person. Now it's being done from either the talents home or from the Audacy or Cumulus or Ihearts offices in any part of the country.
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In this example Lisa Foxx is doing radio shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles for Iheart wherever I heart wants her to do the show from.
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His biography doesn't say.
A year or two ago, I was listening to WSTR/Atlanta and the DJ said he was doing the show from a Flying J truck stop. As the others say, not especially difficult to do now, just need WiFi and a reasonably quiet space.
Just before Bobby Rich retired from The Drive in Tucson, he and his morning show partner Hill Bailey were both doing the show from their own homes. They both had home computers tied into the station's computer, and occasionally someone at the station had to step in when there were hiccups. When Hill Bailey moved to South Carolina, they discussed the possibility of her doing the program from there, but the new owner Bustos Media wanted all on-air personnel to be available for personal appearances in Tucson. Rather than starting all over with a new partner, he moved on to retirement. That was the version of the story I heard as told over the air.
Here's the most famous example Ryan Seacrest when he did the TV show Live With Kelly and Mark. He did his Los Angeles show on KIIS-FM and Iheart from New York when he was doing the show. Or when he's on American Idol he's doing the Iheart show from wherever the auditions are taking place.
Bean was on KROQ remotely from his home in Washington State from the late 90s until he left the morning show.
While its not uncommon, I don't know how often it occurs overall. Certainly its been done for some time and the tech is nearly flawless now. I'd say it's maybe 60/40 at best in terms of ratio of local in studio versus remote when it comes to prime slot shows that 'sound' local.
happens more often than youd think.... and its fooled me a few times or left me unable to tell.
like when im at computer, i can google thigns and figure it out, .. but at least twice ive not been near a computer, or didnt feel like looking around and been fooled.......the jock just had the right sound, the right vibe..... was very casually by confidently talking about some local things......
Alex Sensation does his syndicated mix show for New York, Florida, Puerto Rico and LA from whenever he happens to be. Which is very convenient for him since he can do double duty as a live DJ. He's broadcast from places like Dubai and Greece where I imagine he has quite the sweet gigs.
Got a laptop and microphone, you can broadcast from anywhere...
Got a laptop and microphone, you can broadcast from anywhere...
Playout one pro has this feature and ive used it AK to WY
Radio.cloud is all in the cloud and if you lose internet you could be SOL if oyu cant access your automation.
BUt playoutone pro isnt in the cloud and all you need is a mic and web browser
Bill Hagen used Radio Cloud entirely to program and run XEPRS when it was the Mightier 1090. The 1st station to do so. I wouldn't be surprised if Marc Paskin is using it now.
That is VERY not true and I wish you wouldn't post guesses when you don't know what you're talking about.
The Radio.cloud receiver that sits at the station end (it can be at the studio before the STL or at the transmitter) is actually what's doing the playout.
The cloud automation is pushing updates to it as long as there's an internet connection, and it's true that if the connection drops you lose the ability to update the automation with new logs or voice tracks, but you are not "SOL." The receiver will happily sit there and keep playing out the audio on its hard drive for as long as it has logs.
There are also ways to get backup connectivity in most cases.
i should clarify, what you said "its true that if" is what i meant, i know darn well that its not getting to the transmitter via an STL like hope thing .. i meant the updates thingy and shouldve calrified.
Isn't that the point? If it's sounding local, then it really doesn't matter if it's local or not (see comment from @SomeRadioGuy earlier...)
@vchimpanzee may simply be surprised that an air personality actually mentioned a location, where much of the time the person doing the VT doesn't let on they're actually doing a VT.
Oh, I'd be willing to consider that, depending on market size, only one daypart is NOT VT'd, and all of the others are. Too easy to do, it seems...
It might be entertaining for someone to video ten minutes or so of how the VT process works - a 'behind the scenes' view of 'how the sausage gets made' for those that aren't that close to the biz.
Here’s another set of talent to consider. It’s voiceover artists assigned to TV News like Charlie Van Dyke and Scott Chapin they do voiceover work from their homes but they get multiple TV News Promos from multiple local stations from across the country.
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