Voice Trackers

[BossJock1947]

To do a quality voice track session, it takes me about 1 hour to do a 5 hour show. This combines current events that are not day sensitive. I try and do a couple days in advance so like on Monday, I'm recording for Tuesday & Wednesday. I also combine with the liner cards for the station plus throwing some info on weather or current events. It usually takes me 30 minutes to record and then at least 30 minutes of looking up info to talk about.

Now to say you need to spend 2 hours to voice track, that is a little extreme. Perhaps this is what Corporate radio wants!!! What is the actual going rate to voice track a daily show??? The Company I work for pays $15 a day. There is no bonus or extra pats on the back for good numbers. Unfortunately, this is the direction radio is going.

I, probably like most jocks, take pride in my show. I have worked with some jocks that could care less and you can hear it in there VT'ing. They are probably the ones saying they can get a 5 hr show done in 15 minutes.

The Company I work for pays $15 a day.

Please tell me you're kidding

 

[Disco Jonn]

$15 a day for each day that you voice tracked. Weekends are $15 for the entire weekend as they feel you don't have to talk as much. So $90 a week.

 

[truthsayer]

90 bucks a week? Why do you allow such insulting wages? You are hurting yourself. The cashier a kroger is making more than you. For the love of Pete even the busboy at Dennys makes more in training.


I hope you have a full time job and another real part time job.

 

[Disco Jonn]

Yes... I do have another job. Radio is more of a hobby job. This is all the Cloud will pay. I had asked for more, but they said this was their rate Nationwide.

 

[its time w (your name)]

Which is the whole problem today. Too many of us are willing to prostitute ourselves and turn what should be a job, into a hobby. Thus professionals cant afford to stay, or have to work 3 gigs, leaving us with hobbyists.

If you want to be on the radio that badly, line up behind Karen and be a caller.

Friends dont let friends voicetrack.

 

[ilistentotheradio]

If you want to be on the radio that badly, line up behind Karen and be a caller.

Quote of the year!

Well Hello to you.... is that a deal?

 

[fmtooner]

Which is the whole problem today. Too many of us are willing to prostitute ourselves and turn what should be a job, into a hobby. Thus professionals cant afford to stay, or have to work 3 gigs, leaving us with hobbyists.

If you want to be on the radio that badly, line up behind Karen and be a caller.

Friends dont let friends voicetrack.

i'm surprised it took the suits this long to figure out there are people who want to be on the radio regardless of the paycheck. guess vt'ing capabilities finally gave them the nerve to put it out there, and there's no shortage of takers.

toonly

 

[edriskill]

90 bucks a week? Why do you allow such insulting wages? You are hurting yourself. The cashier a kroger is making more than you. For the love of Pete even the busboy at Dennys makes more in training.


I hope you have a full time job and another real part time job.

My first two jobs in radio paid $1.60 an hour, and I was thrilled beyond words to get that... of course, I was in high school living at home at the time (the '60's)... but it paid for my first 2 cars and the gas. My friends who worked in gas stations (another career choice that's gone, but not forgotten) got less than a buck, and didn't work in air conditioning. Then, of course, there were the always popular hay hauling jobs...

 

[Disco Jonn]

Which is the whole problem today. Too many of us are willing to prostitute ourselves and turn what should be a job, into a hobby. Thus professionals cant afford to stay, or have to work 3 gigs, leaving us with hobbyists.

If you want to be on the radio that badly, line up behind Karen and be a caller.

Friends dont let friends voicetrack.

i'm surprised it took the suits this long to figure out there are people who want to be on the radio regardless of the paycheck. guess vt'ing capabilities finally gave them the nerve to put it out there, and there's no shortage of takers.

toonly

Actually I have over 20 years of Radio Broadcast Experience so it's not like I just walked in and they said "How would you like to VT". In this day with radio listenership declining as well as the ad dollar shinking for radio... I guess being asked to VT a Midday shift is better than having the station just sweep thru middays. Most Nights you can have your choice of Lia, Tesh, Delilah, etc. Soon Corporate Radio will have all their Operating Systems the same and you will have 1 guy from a Major Market City LIVE in 20 to 50 other Markets with only recorded liners for that particular station being different and still being paid the same amount of Money. Are you going to jump down his throat for doing that??? Someone will be waiting to take over his spot when he feels he is being used and not paid for his talent. Think about it... you can have a Country, AC, Rock-n-Roll Hits, whatever format, and only pay one yearly wage for 50 stations. We are not that far away from this happening. Corporate Radio has paid way to much for all their stations and they are too proud to sell them off, so this will be an easy way to still carelessly spend money for more stations and still not pay what the Talent is worth.