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What advice do you give to radio wannabes???

Bring the PD excellent marijuana.......fix the midday guy up with hippie-whores at Burger King remotes....... Cheap Scotch for the sales manager.....Cuban cigars and Viagra for the GM.......
Make nice with the secretaries - never use the restroom after the engineers.......
Bringing in doughnuts every now and then doesn't hurt.......
Never admit to being a Young Republican.......
Oh....also.....be nice to the listeners(although I'm not really sure why you need listeners).......
 
A few tidbits:

Get a degree, even if it is not in radio or broadcasting. There may come a day when you will want to move up in the company.

Pick a musical sub-genre and become the expert in it. There is always a market for that type of jock. In addition, you can create a show for yourself.

Hang round the station as much as possible. If you are there, people will ask you to do stuff. The more you do the harder it is to get rid of you.

Keep you phone on at all times. You never know when the PD will say they need you at a remote or on the air.

Read the news everyday. Know what is going on in the world and your community.

Embrace technology. 10 years ago stations were just beginning to use computers instead of CD players, which only lasted 15 years after carts lasted 25 years and records before that.

Don't pick up chicks off the request line. They sound cute on the phone but when they show up at the studio they look like Super Phat Mikey and Giant Brian's illegitimate love child.
 
Neil Millman said:
Embrace technology. 10 years ago stations were just beginning to use computers instead of CD players, which only lasted 15 years after carts lasted 25 years and records before that.
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Amen. I'm astounded by the number of people who seem terrified of computers and technology. In 1996 I was at a station where they'd just gotten an Arrakis Trackstar, utterly ancient by today's technology, but at the time one of the very first digital audio editing systems. No one there could hardly use it, and I sat down and read the manual and taught it to myself. Ditto at the next station I went to where they'd invested about 3 grand in a fancy Ensoniqs' system (The PARIS) that they couldn't figure out. After a while I'd mastered it.

When I became the production director I would receive dozens of demo tapes weekly from aspiring voice talents that could read, but couldn't edit. If I wanted them to come in and actually PRODUCE, they couldn't. Their tapes went in the trash.

Today I get tons of production sent to me here at home where I crank out produced spots daily from the warm comfort of my own easy chair. And continue to be amazed by those who think as long as they can open their mouth in front of a mike, that's all it takes.
 
Don't bother. Radio is pretty much DEAD! Do yourself a favor and invest in the knowledge of podcasting, voice overs, video and other electronic means 100 per cent online. The future of radio signals will be for cell phones. Yep, cell phones will someday actually have signals that don't drop off and much better quality because they'll be using the old radio frequencies!

You can still be creative and do whatever you want to do online!

Scott Woodside
http://www.scottwoodside.com
 
scottwoodside said:
Don't bother. Radio is pretty much DEAD! Do yourself a favor and invest in the knowledge of podcasting, voice overs, video and other electronic means 100 per cent online. The future of radio signals will be for cell phones. Yep, cell phones will someday actually have signals that don't drop off and much better quality because they'll be using the old radio frequencies!

You can still be creative and do whatever you want to do online!

Scott Woodside
http://www.scottwoodside.com
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This is putting me in the mood to hear a Choose Your News.
 
I tell techies that there is better new tech elsewhere than broadcasting at the moment. However, the medium is in a state of change - just as it was when TV appeared - and those in the industry at the time had the fun of to a degree defining what the medium evolved into. Those who opt in now have a chance at the same circumstance. It is still a very cyclical and unstable profession, there's no security in it. There's never been a lot, relative to other industries at the time. That's a perfect combination for a young person with few responsibilities. For the lucky ones who do well, 'well' can be very well. 'Learn before you burn' if you will. It's gonna be fun, albeit a crapshoot as to the profitability for any individual. I'd do it again.
 
choose your news? Those were great broadcasting days n dc at WPGC!!!!!!!
 
scottwoodside said:
choose your news? Those were great broadcasting days n dc at WPGC!!!!!!!
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I believe a really good Choose Your News is on one of the airchecks I contributed to Lee Chambers for his amandfmmorningside.com website.
 
Neil Millman said:
Pick a musical sub-genre and become the expert in it. There is always a market for that type of jock. In addition, you can create a show for yourself.
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C'mon Neil. Just because YOU like Punk-Zydeco doesn't mean there will be a market for it. ;)
 
Neil Millman said:
Hang round the station as much as possible. If you are there, people will ask you to do stuff. The more you do the harder it is to get rid of you.

Keep your phone on at all times. You never know when the PD will say they need you at a remote or on the air.
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Many a career has started out this way. Just ask Axel at Rock 100.5.
 
Neil Millman said:
A few tidbits:

Get a degree, even if it is not in radio or broadcasting. There may come a day when you will want to move up in the company.

Pick a musical sub-genre and become the expert in it. There is always a market for that type of jock. In addition, you can create a show for yourself.

Hang round the station as much as possible. If you are there, people will ask you to do stuff. The more you do the harder it is to get rid of you.

Keep you phone on at all times. You never know when the PD will say they need you at a remote or on the air.

Read the news everyday. Know what is going on in the world and your community.

Embrace technology. 10 years ago stations were just beginning to use computers instead of CD players, which only lasted 15 years after carts lasted 25 years and records before that.

Don't pick up chicks off the request line. They sound cute on the phone but when they show up at the studio they look like Super Phat Mikey and Giant Brian's illegitimate love child.
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That was money!! LOL
 
bnaivar said:
Neil Millman said:
Pick a musical sub-genre and become the expert in it. There is always a market for that type of jock. In addition, you can create a show for yourself.
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C'mon Neil. Just because YOU like Punk-Zydeco doesn't mean there will be a market for it. ;)
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When I am PD of 929, the first song I will have played will be "Ma 'Tit Fille" by Throbbing Gristle.
 
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