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Marathon Don
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Just curious... how many of you actually enjoy your radio station's programming and LISTEN during your airshift?
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ZAX Double J
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I do. Since my show is voice tracked and I work full-time at Wal-Mart I put it onto video tape (audio only of course and I can program it to come on while I am away) and then I "scope" the voice tracks to minidisc for archival. The vidoe tape gets reused the next show. I only have a few whole shows saved.
Marathon Don said:
I listen during my airshift but thats it.. not because I hate the music, but because I can only stomach so many hours of continuous music per day before I get overloaded
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firecop947
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I program and listen to my station. Country music, I'm a big fan!
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mjcarter1981
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I generally listen to news/talk on my drive to and from work (only 15 minutes each way). I listen to our station Saturdays for college football (we carry Eastern Kentucky), but that's about it. At home, my kids and their TV shows are too loud for me to listen much. Over my career, I rarely listened outside of my work hours, generally because 8 hours a day of one particular kind of music was enough for me.
This is interesting because I keep copies of some of the games I have done when I was at WCU. I wish I had kept more,but I think I have only one game, when we played Elon and I listen to it knowing much more now than I did then. It is kinda painful to hear my amateurish voice, but it kinda takes me back too...not like I'm 50 years old or something.
But I think there is a charm of hearing the station you work for, and keeping air checks of yourself. When I was in college, it was really cool to listen to WWCU because well, there weren't that many other stations around, and it was cool to think that the person you are listening to was someone you really knew.
After graduation, it kinda died down a bit because many times you end up working in a station for professionalism, rather than choice of genre. Many guys got lucky and worked in a station that played the music they loved, some kinda dealt with it.
I'll be honest, when I first worked for WVOT when it was beach and shag, it really wasn't my cup of tea. I didn't say I hated it, but if I had a choice, I might listen to something else. But the longer I worked there, and the more I became a part of it, I wanted to hear more about the place I worked for, and I listened more and started liking it more.
When I was helping one of these AM Christian stations, I listened a little bit, but I just could not keep the "dial tuned in" to it. I knew there was so much that the station could do to change but refused, so it just sounded like the last station you'd want to listen to. But often when I was on the air, I recorded myself so I could keep a chronicle of my work.
I realize it's different with others, but I guess with me, I could listen to the station I worked with sometimes.
But I think there is a charm of hearing the station you work for, and keeping air checks of yourself. When I was in college, it was really cool to listen to WWCU because well, there weren't that many other stations around, and it was cool to think that the person you are listening to was someone you really knew.
After graduation, it kinda died down a bit because many times you end up working in a station for professionalism, rather than choice of genre. Many guys got lucky and worked in a station that played the music they loved, some kinda dealt with it.
I'll be honest, when I first worked for WVOT when it was beach and shag, it really wasn't my cup of tea. I didn't say I hated it, but if I had a choice, I might listen to something else. But the longer I worked there, and the more I became a part of it, I wanted to hear more about the place I worked for, and I listened more and started liking it more.
When I was helping one of these AM Christian stations, I listened a little bit, but I just could not keep the "dial tuned in" to it. I knew there was so much that the station could do to change but refused, so it just sounded like the last station you'd want to listen to. But often when I was on the air, I recorded myself so I could keep a chronicle of my work.
I realize it's different with others, but I guess with me, I could listen to the station I worked with sometimes.
A problem we all have is to listen to ourselves more like a listener. While scoped air checks are necessary, you should occasionally listen to unedited hours of your performance - hear it in the context of the listener.
I know you get tired of hearing the same songs over and over, but you have to get over that. Every PD should take a day away from the station from time to time and listen in the car, while raking leaves, puttering around the house, doing things listeners do.
I know you get tired of hearing the same songs over and over, but you have to get over that. Every PD should take a day away from the station from time to time and listen in the car, while raking leaves, puttering around the house, doing things listeners do.
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abcparamount
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I love oldies, and I'm in the fortunate position of being able to program two hours a day of anything I like. I ALWAYS listen to the show "through the ears of a listener", to see if the flow/blend of the music as well as the "bits" worked, or didn't. Thankfully, I usually am fine with what I hear, but when I'm not, it's an educational process. Sometimes I think a comedy bit worked, and it doesn't, and sometimes I think it fell flat, but it worked fine. It's not an ego thing; it's a tool for keeping on track as an entertainer. 
Doing things through they eyes of a listener is so important..How many times has a PD told us you talk too much,what was that song??? you did this or that wrong but the listeners call and compliment what you did..Isn't the listener/client/potential client the ones we ought to be trying to please...Really???
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ZAX Double J
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allenv said:
I agree with you there. We all do make mistakes and yes, the PD may find things that the listener wouldn't find. I was once told that if you like your sound and it sounds good to you then it probably is good to the listener.
Of course the GOOD PD will review your tape as a listener. In fact, the GOOD PD will program the station for the listener, and then ask you to execute that program - working with you on consistency of the message and reinforce the things you are doing right. He (or she) will also listen to your ideas and steal the good ones - I mean put the good ones into use.
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ZAX Double J
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XTalker said:
Many of those "GOOD PDs" have left the business or have been fired due to "budgetary reasons", unfortunately.
Marathon Don said:
I know jocks who dont listen to radio period.
who wants to listen to the same songs over and over?
they keep scoping the scene for new music.
Double J said:
Speaking of GOOD PDs - The first day I hosted my very first talk radio program after years as a music jock, the PD told me that the previous three hours of talk was too "vanilla". I asked him - THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR - to explain to me how I could make the show better, more entertaining and informative? His exact response "...Oh I don't know... I'm not a talk host myself so I don't know what to tell you...". I often wondered how he got his job as a News-Talk FM Program Director if he didn't know how to direct his air-staff and talk hosts to be the best.
Unfortunately, as stated by another poster, all the GOOD PDs are virtually gone...
Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
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hamNcheese said:
The jock that doesn't listen to his own station is not really doing his job! I am not suggesting you have to listen all day, every day - just do what listeners do. IMHO, a jock should have a feel for the whole station, not just his own program. Besides, what jock is responsible for "new music"? They need to spend time doing what their listeners do!
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