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Thanks for taking the time to even *look* at this!
So I'm the afternoon voice on an as-of-yet-unrated AAA station and have been for a little over a year. I have zero background in radio other than working for this company and while I love it, I know I can do better. One of the things I've decided to do is reinvent myself on-air: new name, slightly new style, and some new on-air bits.
My first question is just simply: What seems to work well for afternoon shows? Anything I should definitely avoid (aside from the painfully obvious, of course)?
Next question: One of the things I plan on doing is a weekly, hour-long interview with a local musician (our signal reaches parts of three states and I can get away with calling some outskirting larger cities our area as well, so the talent pool to draw from is pretty big). I'm hoping to make it a little different from what I normally hear and am open to ideas
The objective is to get our listeners involved in the local music scenes and to let them know that indeed there *is* a local music scene (this is a weird weird area in several ways).
Here is what I know I'm doing with it so far:
A - I have on the way in the mail a Zoom H2 recorder, and 3 musicians who have agreed to be my guinea pigs (they're not coming in the mail...). I know that it's good enough to record broadcastable interviews from various places (A friend told me he was once interviewed in a car with the H2 and though skeptical, it sounded like it was in-studio on-air).
B - I will only be recording one person (maybe 2, depending) at a time in hopes of focusing the interview on the musician and hopefully moving it from simply an interview to something more like a conversation. Though the show will be an hour, I plan to actually record for at least an hour and a half and up to as long as they'll let me - 2 hours being the overall goal.
C - the objective is to introduce the listeners to their local music scene by making the musicians actual people - letting the listener get to know the musician over the course of our "conversation", which in turn makes it more likely the listener will notice the person's or their band's name in whatever advertising they're doing, which will make it more likely they'll attend shows.
D - To facilitate all of that, I will be doing the interviews just about anywhere *but* the studio. Someplace we can grab a bite to eat, sip coffee, have a drink, whatever. Mid-day so that wherever we are is'n't likely to be loud. If it turns out we get a lot of incidental sounds, I plan to incorporate that into the interviews and will mention at the beginning where we are (and hopefully snag a sponsorship of the show from the place as well, if it's a business ).
E - I will play a few songs of theirs, probably their choice. As a bed to the whole thing, I'd like to use their songs as well...but I have a feeling not everyone's music is going to make that easy to do, so I need a default bed just in case (or another suggestion).
So there's where I am with this...I have a vision, but I want to work out as many details as I can before that first interview as possible. Thoughts? Suggestions? Anything at all - I'm open to all ideas whether general and big or teeny tiny detail. I know the very basics of editing and use audacity - and I'm not afraid to try new stuff and to research!
Thanks in advance for anything and everything!
So I'm the afternoon voice on an as-of-yet-unrated AAA station and have been for a little over a year. I have zero background in radio other than working for this company and while I love it, I know I can do better. One of the things I've decided to do is reinvent myself on-air: new name, slightly new style, and some new on-air bits.
My first question is just simply: What seems to work well for afternoon shows? Anything I should definitely avoid (aside from the painfully obvious, of course)?
Next question: One of the things I plan on doing is a weekly, hour-long interview with a local musician (our signal reaches parts of three states and I can get away with calling some outskirting larger cities our area as well, so the talent pool to draw from is pretty big). I'm hoping to make it a little different from what I normally hear and am open to ideas
The objective is to get our listeners involved in the local music scenes and to let them know that indeed there *is* a local music scene (this is a weird weird area in several ways). Here is what I know I'm doing with it so far:
A - I have on the way in the mail a Zoom H2 recorder, and 3 musicians who have agreed to be my guinea pigs (they're not coming in the mail...). I know that it's good enough to record broadcastable interviews from various places (A friend told me he was once interviewed in a car with the H2 and though skeptical, it sounded like it was in-studio on-air).
B - I will only be recording one person (maybe 2, depending) at a time in hopes of focusing the interview on the musician and hopefully moving it from simply an interview to something more like a conversation. Though the show will be an hour, I plan to actually record for at least an hour and a half and up to as long as they'll let me - 2 hours being the overall goal.
C - the objective is to introduce the listeners to their local music scene by making the musicians actual people - letting the listener get to know the musician over the course of our "conversation", which in turn makes it more likely the listener will notice the person's or their band's name in whatever advertising they're doing, which will make it more likely they'll attend shows.
D - To facilitate all of that, I will be doing the interviews just about anywhere *but* the studio. Someplace we can grab a bite to eat, sip coffee, have a drink, whatever. Mid-day so that wherever we are is'n't likely to be loud. If it turns out we get a lot of incidental sounds, I plan to incorporate that into the interviews and will mention at the beginning where we are (and hopefully snag a sponsorship of the show from the place as well, if it's a business
). E - I will play a few songs of theirs, probably their choice. As a bed to the whole thing, I'd like to use their songs as well...but I have a feeling not everyone's music is going to make that easy to do, so I need a default bed just in case (or another suggestion).
So there's where I am with this...I have a vision, but I want to work out as many details as I can before that first interview as possible. Thoughts? Suggestions? Anything at all - I'm open to all ideas whether general and big or teeny tiny detail. I know the very basics of editing and use audacity - and I'm not afraid to try new stuff and to research!
Thanks in advance for anything and everything!