Does anyone ever aircheck Sports stations? I don't see what the point would be.......course I'm not a Sports radio fan either.
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Do you aircheck Sports stations?
- Thread starter icycool7227
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Sports Talk Radio is all I listen too. I am talking 24/7!
I don't listen for content, but context. (Not what they are saying, but how they are saying it.) Of course this is the choosen profession that I want to go into. I find I like the way this guy does a particular segment, and that guy interviews. (Though I have found that sports talk radio is lacking in interviewing technique overall.)
Right now my style could be best discribed as, Jim Cramer (Mad Money) crossed with Dickie V! That's just something that comes out, and I'm not really sure why. I'm not sure that high energy, growling, Sports Talk Host is what the public wants to hear. I guess I wil find out when I start sending out my Demo CD's.
I don't listen for content, but context. (Not what they are saying, but how they are saying it.) Of course this is the choosen profession that I want to go into. I find I like the way this guy does a particular segment, and that guy interviews. (Though I have found that sports talk radio is lacking in interviewing technique overall.)
Right now my style could be best discribed as, Jim Cramer (Mad Money) crossed with Dickie V! That's just something that comes out, and I'm not really sure why. I'm not sure that high energy, growling, Sports Talk Host is what the public wants to hear. I guess I wil find out when I start sending out my Demo CD's.
bherbstreit, whatever you do, when you start interviewing the bigwigs and movers and shakers in the world of sport, don't reintroduce the interviewee and yourself before and after every question.
"This is bherbstreit with 1230 The Fan, here with Mike Tyson, boxer. Mike Tyson, welcome to the show, how was that last fight?"
"It's been a while, but I miss it. He didn't want to fight me."
"All right then, this is bherbstreit, we're with boxer Mike Tyson on 1230 The Fan today, Mr. Tyson, do you miss Cus D'Amato?"
"Yeah, I do. He was like a father to me."
"Yeah [laughs at own joke inside head], that's cool for you to say that. All right, you're listening to 1230 The Fan, this is bherbstreit, we're with Mike Tyson, and we're interviewing him. Mike, what was it like being married to the girl from "Head of the Class?""
"Oh, Simone was the hot one."
"Ha ha [now feels need to laugh at all jokes like "good" radio people do], all right man, we're with Mike Tyson this morning on 1230 The Fan....."
Okay, I changed the names to protect the innocent, but that's what I hear TOO MUCH of on sports radio interviews. It's like a 10-minute billboard for the station and the hosts, not an interview....
"This is bherbstreit with 1230 The Fan, here with Mike Tyson, boxer. Mike Tyson, welcome to the show, how was that last fight?"
"It's been a while, but I miss it. He didn't want to fight me."
"All right then, this is bherbstreit, we're with boxer Mike Tyson on 1230 The Fan today, Mr. Tyson, do you miss Cus D'Amato?"
"Yeah, I do. He was like a father to me."
"Yeah [laughs at own joke inside head], that's cool for you to say that. All right, you're listening to 1230 The Fan, this is bherbstreit, we're with Mike Tyson, and we're interviewing him. Mike, what was it like being married to the girl from "Head of the Class?""
"Oh, Simone was the hot one."
"Ha ha [now feels need to laugh at all jokes like "good" radio people do], all right man, we're with Mike Tyson this morning on 1230 The Fan....."
Okay, I changed the names to protect the innocent, but that's what I hear TOO MUCH of on sports radio interviews. It's like a 10-minute billboard for the station and the hosts, not an interview....
When I interview I always say my name, Station ID at the beginning and the end and of course who I am interviewing. IF I have to break, I will say it then as well, as well as who I am interviewing, going into and out of the break.
I have really been interested in interview techniques by the various personalities. Some are good, but most are pretty terrible. Sometimes I have to wonder if they are interviewing or trying to impress the person with their knowledge.
If the person has a really good story, I think the best thing you can do as the host is get out of the way and let them tell it.
But I appreciate everything that people have to tell me. I feel like right now I am like a sponge and I am trying to absorb everything.
I have really been interested in interview techniques by the various personalities. Some are good, but most are pretty terrible. Sometimes I have to wonder if they are interviewing or trying to impress the person with their knowledge.
If the person has a really good story, I think the best thing you can do as the host is get out of the way and let them tell it.
But I appreciate everything that people have to tell me. I feel like right now I am like a sponge and I am trying to absorb everything.
Yeah, I don't know why some sports talk hosts say their name so much, except it's a crutch for not knowing who they are interviewing or what they are talking about.
Or maybe they are worried about some fourth-string sports station in town chopping up the guest's answers and using it for their own "interviews" or some other secret worry that only they can understand..... :-\
Actually, there was a sports guy in another town nearby a few years back who would do "interviews" where the guest had prerecorded answers and the host would ask "questions" that were already answered. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now, but that's how he rolled, for whatever reason. It sounded like listening to Dr. Joy Browne interviewing Roseanne for those Tahiti Village commercials though.
Or maybe they are worried about some fourth-string sports station in town chopping up the guest's answers and using it for their own "interviews" or some other secret worry that only they can understand..... :-\
Actually, there was a sports guy in another town nearby a few years back who would do "interviews" where the guest had prerecorded answers and the host would ask "questions" that were already answered. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now, but that's how he rolled, for whatever reason. It sounded like listening to Dr. Joy Browne interviewing Roseanne for those Tahiti Village commercials though.
Bruce Gilbert's "7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing" always runs through my head.
1) No Query-Always ask a direct question! "What, Why, How & Where!" "Roger, I understand you met Mindy McCready when she was 15." That's not a question that's a statement. "Roger, is it true you met Mindy McCready when she was only 15?" That's a question.
2) No Double barrel questions - 2 Questions at a time, the interviewee will always answer the easier one. "Barry, when did you first start juicing and how does it feel to be the Home Run King?" (What question do you think he would answer?)
3) No overloading - Ask a specific question "In the 4th Quarter you caught the Defense out of position and was able to hit your WR for a 50 yard TD pass. What tipped you off to start that play and we were in the booth and were shocked that the WR was that open." (There's a questions in here somewhere.)
4) Remarks - This is NOT the place to prove your knowledge (This is where most interviewers fall down the most.)
5) Trigger words - Listen to the answers. This may set up the next question, one you hadn't thought about. We all have a list of questions that we want to ask. Even Leno & Letterman have questions carefully planned ahead of time, most even are discussed with the guest.
6) Hyperbolae - If you are interviewing someone about baseball, don't go off and start talking about his/her golf game. Stay on target.
7) Close query - "Where you shocked?" "Where you surprised?" Better, "What did you feel?"
1) No Query-Always ask a direct question! "What, Why, How & Where!" "Roger, I understand you met Mindy McCready when she was 15." That's not a question that's a statement. "Roger, is it true you met Mindy McCready when she was only 15?" That's a question.
2) No Double barrel questions - 2 Questions at a time, the interviewee will always answer the easier one. "Barry, when did you first start juicing and how does it feel to be the Home Run King?" (What question do you think he would answer?)
3) No overloading - Ask a specific question "In the 4th Quarter you caught the Defense out of position and was able to hit your WR for a 50 yard TD pass. What tipped you off to start that play and we were in the booth and were shocked that the WR was that open." (There's a questions in here somewhere.)
4) Remarks - This is NOT the place to prove your knowledge (This is where most interviewers fall down the most.)
5) Trigger words - Listen to the answers. This may set up the next question, one you hadn't thought about. We all have a list of questions that we want to ask. Even Leno & Letterman have questions carefully planned ahead of time, most even are discussed with the guest.
6) Hyperbolae - If you are interviewing someone about baseball, don't go off and start talking about his/her golf game. Stay on target.
7) Close query - "Where you shocked?" "Where you surprised?" Better, "What did you feel?"
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