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Dave_C

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Hi

Hope you can help and call me crazy if you like but I am looking to move to the US particulary GA..Now I am a presenter but looking to move into a PD role in an AC format or similar..Very skilled,bursting with ideas not employed to the max in US radio...So any advice? Also we hear over here that Americans like the British accent on air..Just looking for an opinion on that is it true or myth..Many Thanks DC
 
You might not be able to jump right into an PD job from the boat. Send T&Rs to stations looking for APDs, then gain the experience to take over from your station's PD or make the jump to your own station.

I heard that Americans are something like 40% more likely to pay attention to a British accent... could be bunk, but makes sense. I pay more attention to it... and try to emulate it on certain spots.

> Hi
>
> Hope you can help and call me crazy if you like but I am
> looking to move to the US particulary GA..Now I am a
> presenter but looking to move into a PD role in an AC format
> or similar..Very skilled,bursting with ideas not employed to
> the max in US radio...So any advice? Also we hear over here
> that Americans like the British accent on air..Just looking
> for an opinion on that is it true or myth..Many Thanks DC
>
 
Thanks MC that's quite a bit of help..Just to add I'm already in a APD role in a major UK market so hopefully that will go some way..Now all I have to do is overcome the joy that is good 'ol US immagration!

> You might not be able to jump right into an PD job from the
> boat. Send T&Rs to stations looking for APDs, then gain the
> experience to take over from your station's PD or make the
> jump to your own station.
>
> I heard that Americans are something like 40% more likely to
> pay attention to a British accent... could be bunk, but
> makes sense. I pay more attention to it... and try to
> emulate it on certain spots.
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Hope you can help and call me crazy if you like but I am
> > looking to move to the US particulary GA..Now I am a
> > presenter but looking to move into a PD role in an AC
> format
> > or similar..Very skilled,bursting with ideas not employed
> to
> > the max in US radio...So any advice? Also we hear over
> here
> > that Americans like the British accent on air..Just
> looking
> > for an opinion on that is it true or myth..Many Thanks DC
> >
>
 
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"call me crazy if you like but I am looking to move to the US particulary GA.."

Allow me to be among the first.. to call you crazy that is. :)

I advise you to do a lot of research before doing anything rash, such as resigning your current position! I am no expert on UK radio but from what I do know, you will find huge differences between UK Radio and US radio, especially if you work in a smaller market in the US. I have a friend who moved to this country from Canada where he worked in radio. He was shocked at the smaller staffs of the stations.

"Also we hear over here that Americans like the British accent on air..Just
looking for an opinion on that is it true or myth.."

My experience is that many Americans are charmed by British accents but that doesn't necessarily mean they are desirable in on-air positions. For whatever reason, radio and TV in the US established decades ago that radio and television station personalities should achieve a flat midwestern US accent. It is considered the least heavily-accented accent. You don't even hear a lot of Southern US accents on Southern US radio and television. Not that it wouldn't work, but in my experience, radio managers and programmers are bound very much by what they've always done and by what their peers do. You'd likely find some difficulty in persuading a hiring manager that your accent is an asset. This reminds me: 15 or more years ago, I was running a Savannah, Georgia rock station and we had a part-time, weekend air personality. The owner of the station heard him one day and confronted me about his accent. I asked the owner, who was from Boston, what the problem was. He said "people in Boston don't like the Brits."
My response, as best I recall, was that A) We aren't in Boston and B) He's an Aussie. Not coincidentally, he decided not much later that not only would he prefer a new weekend air personality, he'd prefer a new General Manager!

I'm semi-retired and out of radio entirely but I have British friends in the US and friends in US radio. If I can be of any further help, email me privately.

Jerry Stevens

(Oddly enough, I recently connected a a spare computer to my home sound system and have been listening to a lot of internet radio lately. I like what I'm hearing out of the UK!)<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts" - late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan</P>
 
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