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I'm sure there is several air talents that wish, hope, or aspire to the next level. I've listened to every radio station here and simply can't stomach most. Just a few tips: Make an attempt to slow down. Talk to your friend. It could be your best friend or your Mother, just stop talking loud, yelling or screaming like Steve Jones. Frankly, the fore-mentioned should know that by now but some think they're above...
 
Ani WaHya said:
I'm sure there is several air talents that wish, hope, or aspire to the next level. I've listened to every radio station here and simply can't stomach most. Just a few tips: Make an attempt to slow down. Talk to your friend. It could be your best friend or your Mother, just stop talking loud, yelling or screaming like Steve Jones. Frankly, the fore-mentioned should know that by now but some think they're above...
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Maybe share your qualifications to critique. If I was on-air and looking for some constructive criticism, I'd like to know who it was coming from.
 
You don't need the guy's resume to determine whether his criticism is valid. It is. Maybe he's some joker who spends his days pumping gas or teaching biochemistry or stocking supermarket shelves or won the Nobel Prize for economics. Or maybe he is or was someone who worked in the business in a big place or a small place. It doesn't matter. He's correct.
 
Well okay, he is a master of the obvious. Everybody knows an ugly baby when they see one. I've certainly singled out a couple of on-air people for criticism in the past, and nobody knows my qualifications. But there are some talented people in State College and Altoona.
 
Masters of the obvious can be helpful, especially when the obvious needs to be stated. I don't think the poster meant to universally condemn everyone on the air here, but his observation and his advice are good reminders for those who already know this stuff and a good wakeup call for the rest.
 
Garg, he did actually say that he can't stomach most. Now while I know that I am not the best there is I also know that I'm not the worst in State College. Steve Jones may get crazy and yell when he is excited but people know that voice. He IS the voice of Penn State no matter how you slice it. Just for the record I would take advice from Spack before I would take advice of the original poster.
 
I don't know anyone in state college radio. The one guy i DID know was Zimmerman, and only accidentally. But the advice is good. I have been in this business since 1953, full time since 1963 and I still listen to people, including those who are younger, less experienced and in smaller communities than those I served. When you stop learning, you're mentally dead.

That said, you don't have to take everything they say as if it were Moses with the tablets coming down from the mountain. But listening doesn't hurt.

It took me a VERY long time to learn something I learned by watching one of the best guys I ever worked with, a name you probably don't know, John A. Gambling. He had a voice like a frog (the real kind, not the Froggy Radio kind,) he was a pompous ass and oh-so-full of himself, but he knew how to listen -- to his listeners, his co-workers and his sponsors. And that goes a long LONG way.
 
Listening....Learning.....
Learning is the most valuable tool. You can't learn if you don't listen.
 
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