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Washington DC Radio Personality April Watts, Tell you how to get into the Radio Business . http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/06/27/“seven-secrets-to-becoming-a-radio-personality/
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Right on... thanks for the link, rapking. Very informative! I never even thought of the "networking" part... great! Anybody wanting to get into the biz should read this.
Thanks for the info ... been actively searching full-time since November of '07 ... plenty, plenty, and plenty of no's so I must be awful close to that yes! Honestly, all those no's makes the persistence part a little difficult, but in honesty and truth, I refuse to give up because I KNOW I have a viable product to offer ANY market!
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thats how I got into the radio business!! By networking. I found out the hard way it aint what u know... its who you know.
Thats why I got myself involved with Russ Parr and his whole staff and started interacting with them via phone calls and emails. I even took it as far as to go to the Russ Bus Tours when they were on the air in Boston.
And til this day, I still talk to them and occasionally do some voiceover work for them
Thats why I got myself involved with Russ Parr and his whole staff and started interacting with them via phone calls and emails. I even took it as far as to go to the Russ Bus Tours when they were on the air in Boston.
And til this day, I still talk to them and occasionally do some voiceover work for them
I don't wanna spoil the picnic here but consider what your radio job, if you can get one, will be like. From my observation and experience, low pay, bad hours (holidays and weekends), no benifits and no job security.
Used to be you could get a job in radio with health insurance if you had some experience and were pretty good. You can now pretty much forget that.
The radio industry is in decline, mirroring what's happening to the newspaper business. Wanna try getting a job at a newspaper now days with huge layoffs and migration of declining advertising dollars elswhere? (internet) Same thing is happening to radio.
Now there are always exceptions, but this is what will happen to most of you young people out there dreaming of a job in big market radio for some reason.
My advice? Find something else.
Used to be you could get a job in radio with health insurance if you had some experience and were pretty good. You can now pretty much forget that.
The radio industry is in decline, mirroring what's happening to the newspaper business. Wanna try getting a job at a newspaper now days with huge layoffs and migration of declining advertising dollars elswhere? (internet) Same thing is happening to radio.
Now there are always exceptions, but this is what will happen to most of you young people out there dreaming of a job in big market radio for some reason.
My advice? Find something else.
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