HOW CAN I PARLAY MY PODCAST INTO A RADIO SHOW?

[unpwn]

If your recordings are of a good quality, better than the "normal" podcast quality, then you can make a demo and pass them off as real radio. I'm not saying to lie, just don't mention it.

 

[justaradioguy]

After nearly 40 years in the business all I can tell you is that the rules have never changed. You have to take your talents to a small station, build up your ability, and then deliver the numbers. Period. I've seen hundreds of hotel DJs think that they could step right in, and do the job. Most of them shoot to high, or don't like having to deal with ratings. Podcasters are probably the same. You will need to start the same way everyone else did. Little has changed about that since 1974.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

After nearly 40 years in the business all I can tell you is that the rules have never changed.

Welcome to the conversations on Radio-Info, justaradioguy.

With a little bit of a smart-aleck grin on my face, I have to ask if you would share with us what geographical cocoon you live... where the rules haven't changed in 40 years. ;D Some of us graying creatures might be interested in moving there so we can continue to enjoy life as we have known it through the years.

Actually, I think you speak a truth but express it in a misleading way. Talent and creativeness have always been important and always will be. But how does talent and creativeness get expressed? That is different from community to community. Different from decade to decade.

I'm sitting here picturing Western Arkansas in the 1950s. After milking the cows and grabbing some breakfast, I would turn the radio up loud enough I could hear it out at the bus stop where I caught what recent generations would call The Looser-Cruiser. (I'm surprised my Mom left the loud thing on while I stood out there.) I think I can say with some amount of confidence anyone trying the replicate programming that met the rules of that day and expressed by one Marvin McCullough on KWHN in Fort Smith..... would NOT demonstrate that the rules have never changed if you and I tried to replicate that programming today in Gettysburg, PA.

 

[Tom Wells]

"toward your end-users' needs"

What does this mean?
Aren't I supposed to do what I do and if people latch on they do, if not, accept it and keep going?

I've read the books about serving a specific audience. Is this what you're referring to?

I'm open to advice from anyone that's made any kind of progress.

Before I read the next three pages, I will tell you that you SHOULD ABSOLUTELY do what you do and the right people will latch on.
You DO need to have a pretty good idea of what you like and what you don't.
Not necessarily why (pause) you like any >thing< in particular. You know what fits and what doesn't.
Many opinions say that my advice is doom, ratings wise. Find your audience and serve it.
There are others like you. Who also like what you like. And how you present it.

Best of luck and don't skimp on the kbps, people will tire of crappy audio.