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I am curious if anyone knows of or uses any Female voice for their imaging. I am currently working at a station here, but we use more Jingles than voice overs.I am looking to start my own Internet Hot A/C format soon. Any help would be much appreciated. I am trying to find someone who does pro work like on terrestrial AM/FM stations.Puls that is reasonably priced. Thanks
 
I know a prod director in Albuquerque who knows a great female voice talent.
I believe she does tons of agency work, and is a night voicetracker for a smooth jazz station I think in Orlando.
I called him and he says to post your e-mail and he'll contact you.
Hope this helps.
 
When I was programming a Hot AC station, I tried a female voice for a few months. What a major flop. Be extremely careful in going that route and especially in choosing a voice. When programming a mainly female-oriented station, remember this truth: Women are very judgmental of other women. If the voice comes off as trying to be 'sexy' in the least bit, then it's going to be a disaster. Use extreme care in the way that you write liners for a female voice. Round up the ladies in your office and run your liners by them before sending them off to be produced. This may sound like a ridiculous amount of caution, but just because your station is targeted toward women doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be represented by women. Good luck in your efforts.
 
whitfm said:
Round up the ladies in your office and run your liners by them before sending them off to be produced.
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I'd even say have those ladies in the office read the liners... they're likely to sound like listeners, you may want to skew the verbiage a little in that direction too, so they sound kinda like testamonials. That's more likely to connect with the audience than having a canned voice cutting them.
 
I've got two good suggestions for ya.

My buddy at The Mix in Milwaukee uses Ann DeWiig - http://www.anndewig.com - she sounds great, very relatable. She also does a lot of great off-the-cuff liners.

I just moved from Green Bay where I was imaging WQLH and I brought on Trisha Moore, she does middays at Sunny in Columbus. She sounds excellent! [email protected]

If you'd like to hear any of Trisha's stuff, I can send you finished sweepers - [email protected]. If you want to hear Ann on WMYX, just stream 'em at http://www.991wmyx.com

Hope that helps!
 
Jennifer Vaughn, Roberta Solomon, Ann Dewig, Lisa Paige and Kelly Doherty.

Roberta and Jennifer are perfect for AC/HAC

Annie for HAC

Lisa and Kelly - HAC/CHR
 
Renamarie Villano or Charity James are both excellent and repped by Nate Zeitz at CESD.
Currently use Renamarie on Mad Dog Radio on SiriusXM Sports. She has great range.
Used Charity James after dropping Ann Dewig at KALC in Denver. Hot AC hybrid.
Ann is super-talented, and certainly relatable, but I feel she's oversaturated the radio imaging market.
Kind of like Chris Corley or Cip for men.
A station sounds cookie-cutter when I hear them. No disrespect.

Renamarie and Charity are great gals too, who will go the extra mile!

www.cesdimaging.com
 
Matt, are you at SXM? My old boss in Cleveland (WMJI/WMMS) is Mitch Todd, SXM Director of Creative. Give a "Hey Uncle Buck" to him for me.

I can see, as an Imaging person, that a VO might seem saturated. But remember, that VO is only on one station in a respective market (unless a mutli station deal, which is rare). Depending on the market and those signals that get into it, most only listen to that market thereby only be exposed to the VO by one station. If a signal gets in that also has that VO, then that's two stations... but the formats could be different and then that same listener may not listen to station B. When I was in Raleigh we used Corley on WRDU. Other signals that got into the market included two rockers, one from Greensboro and the other Fayetteville. BOTH had Corley. So if your a rock P1 and skimming around, then you would hear the same VO. Otherwise....I doubt it.

As imaging guys we sometimes lose sight of regular listeners who don't even know what "VO" means, let alone "imaging", etc.

re: Joe Cip. I hear Ashton Smith, Andy Geller and Ben Patrick Johnson on TV moreso than Cip. As for radio imaging, never hear Cip.

One thing about SXM is that they HAVE to use AFTRA talent, and/or talent from CESD, Abrams, etc. Contracts are in place. I have another buddy there, in DC. Gave me the low down. If you're not with the above agencies you have no shot at getting on SXM as a promo VO.
 
You're right on the money Chuck, very few listeners would think a station sounded "cookie-cutter" because they used a voice that's on dozens of other stations in different markets across the country -- markets that the average listener will never hear. I would tend to think the opposite would be true... someone on that many stations obviously has real talent to offer his/her clients and would make those stations send more unique and professional. Most "cookie-cutter-ness" comes from understaffed clusters having a low-salary rookie imager with little-to-no experience producing 5 stations due to CC/Cumulus/Citadel firing all the experienced pros.

However I can see why Matt would want voices for Sirius/XM that aren't on dozens/hundreds of stations across the country, since he's trying to make his product stand out in every market. If they're trying to be unlike terrestrial radio, it makes sense that they would take steps to avoid sounding like your local terrestrial radio stations, and one way to do that is to use different voices than those stations use.

As far as the v-o saturation goes, if neither CBS nor Fox worried about Cip or DLF voicing dozens of promos for both networks every week for about a 15-year span, then I doubt radio really needs to worry about it either.
 
When I referred to oversaturation, I should have been clear. I was referring to over time.
When I hear Corley on one station one day, then two years later hear him on another, then another, then on my tv news at night... its too much Corley.
Chuck, you're wrong about me having to use AFTRA or any other union talent here at SiriusXM. We are NOT union. I wish we were.
Most VO here is non-union, and usually they work here as employees. I'd say a minority of SXM stations pay for their VO.
 
Matt
My apologies if I am wrong about the union VO talent. I should have worded correctly... only use agency VO. Before you blast me on that comment. I was told by someone at SXM D.C. that they only use VO imaging talent repped by agencies, ie CEDS, Abrams, Atlas, etc. That's what I was told. If that's not the case I stand corrected.
 
i am looking two update the station with some new Imaging person, VO and FX on the radio , look around and nothing stand out , the few that did wont email me back are ring me , god i know think are bad but thought Company and people wouold jump at the chance off get work , i used skype so not you call halfway around the world
Ger
 
we just signed melody sharp. she voices 'FLZ and a handful of other stations.

www.melodysvoice.com
 
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