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[NextGen]

What makes and or defines a great GM, PD, and Jock ?

 

[TheOriginalLarry]

> What makes and or defines a great GM, PD, and Jock ?

GM: Savvy, well organized, helps also to look for answers instead of blaming everybody else below him/her for what's going wrong. A team owner that actually plays on his own team instead of shouting orders from the sidelines.

PD: Somebody who actually listens to their own station as well as competitors. Keeps an ear out for changing trends, not afraid to take a risk in a sluggardly industry. Understands all jocks have their bad days and tries to help make it a little better and is a good listener who is not afraid of taking suggestions instead of being a dictator. Most of all, has to understand without personality, the station is nothing.

Jock: A person who KNOWS his/her music. Can be spontaneous and still keep a flow. Someone you can relate to. Stephen Rabow and Phil Harper had that touch.

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[dialtwisty]

> > What makes and or defines a great GM, PD, and Jock ?

> GM: I concur w/Larry...
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> PD: again, concur w/Larry...

> Jock: A person who KNOWS his/her music...

..yes, but has to have the right PIPES also!!

 

[robojock]

> > > What makes and or defines a great GM, PD, and Jock ?
>
> > GM: I concur w/Larry...
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> > PD: again, concur w/Larry...
>
> > Jock: A person who KNOWS his/her music...
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> ..yes, but has to have the right PIPES also!!
>
That's not really true anymore. The days of the "big pipe" jock are gone.

 

[dialtwisty]

>>> The days of the "big pipe" are gone...

I'm talking about having the good "VOICE"..

.....NO Jim Kampmann's....

 

[AQH]

> That's not really true anymore. The days of the "big pipe"
> jock are gone.

You're wasting bandwidth explaining that to him. E-mail Bill Virgin, maybe he'll write it up, then Dialtwisty might understand.

 

[Buddha]

> >>> The days of the "big pipe" are gone...
>
> I'm talking about having the good "VOICE"..
>
> .....NO Jim Kampmann's....
>

From my limited amount of time listening to Seattle radio which is 30 years I would say that Jim Kampmann may be the most underrated talent in the history of Seattle radio.I have heard him do tons of voice stuff, great production pieces, pro news on a number of Stations and some great newsmagazine style feature reporting.Kampy was doing NPR style stuff back on KISW before most people knew what NPR was.

 

[TheOriginalLarry]

> > >>> The days of the "big pipe" are gone...
> >
> > I'm talking about having the good "VOICE"..
> >
> > .....NO Jim Kampmann's....
> >
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> From my limited amount of time listening to Seattle radio
> which is 30 years I would say that Jim Kampmann may be the
> most underrated talent in the history of Seattle radio.I
> have heard him do tons of voice stuff, great production
> pieces, pro news on a number of Stations and some great
> newsmagazine style feature reporting.Kampy was doing NPR
> style stuff back on KISW before most people knew what NPR
> was.

I liked his sound on KISW in the '90s. He'd read the news, then end it with "Hi. It's (TIME)"

My voice is weird. Range wise, I can go from sounding like a stoned out teenager to a BIG mature easy listening voice easily (though when I do it, I usually tell any witnesses it's just my multiple personality disorder acting up.) Don't know where any of that would fit around here, but it's there if anyone wants it...

These days, it must be something in the genetic breakdown of the human race, but I swear there are no more BIG, POWERFUL male voices that were born after 1975. Most men's voices are now somewhere in the mid-range, never quite getting the BOOM of a Pat O'Day or Ty Flint. And cigarettes and Jack Daniels (the traditional male broadcaster method of increasing depth of voice) only makes them sound like raspy old women.

So nowadays, you pretty much have to look beyond voice and to the real talent that lay within....


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[dialtwisty]

Then again...

..maybe I won't Derbski...