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Which Broadcasting school should I go to?

Re: More than you probably want to know!

Mike Sheridan said:
I had a good run but a few bumps in the road.
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Mike, you're preaching to the choir on that one.

Mike Sheridan said:
1981 WSOC-AM Charlotte, Afternoons & production
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You were probably there in the days when WSOC had the Charlotte O's games out at old Crockett Park. Since it was an Orioles affiliate at the time, Cal Ripkin made a stop there.

Mike Sheridan said:
I probably took some jobs that were not a good fit just to stay employed. Sometimes it was a case of the wrong place at the wrong time. I learned never to backtrack and work someplace I worked before. The place wasn't the same and neither was I.
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Chances are, we've all been there. I will admit that I did 2 tours of duty at one station. The first as a Board Tech just to get a radio job after my old boss at another station I worked at told me the year before that if he had it his way, he would make sure I'd never get another radio job again. The 2nd time I was at that particular station, I went back there because of an opportunity to become an air talent. It's been said some things are better the 2nd time around. Turned out to be the case the 2nd time...I was a book winner there and I dedicated that win to my old boss. To top it off, not only was it my first time as a rated jock, it was also the station's first ever ratings as a station. :)

BIG APE said:
I recall most of the PD's I worked for, if they saw a Broadcast School like Columbia School of Broadcasting (What a ripoff) on their resume, it immediately went into the trash.
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Again, I'm a CSB grad. Hey, if you did it, admit it. I'll will confess one other thing: With the exception of applying for an instructor's job there, I haven't put it down on my resume in well over 10 years. ;)

Mike Sheridan said:
The question is: What are you doing today? (no disrespect intended) Radio and TV stations are shedding staff like a dog sheds fur in July!
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No disrespect taken. :) And it's not limited to Radio and TV. It's happening in a lot of industries.
 
I want to say that I have nothing against CSB. If it helped get that first job great. It's more against the biz, radio just isn't worth paying money to go to school for it, especially now. The standards have slipped quite a bit.

Yes Bub I was at "The Invisible AM" during the Charlotte O's days at Crockett Park, even went to a game there once. We ran the NC State games, UNCC 49'ers basketball and Atlanta Braves baseball too. NBC network at the top of the hour and Mutual at the bottom.

It was tough being across the glass from the number 1 station in town (WSOC-FM). Charlotte was much smaller then, lots of changes since then.
 
Has there ever been a Cashiering School?
A Buggy Whipping School?
A Taxi Cabbing School?

What other minimum-wage/virtually obsolete careers are there still 'schools' for out there????
 
Don't know, but what happened to people like Dwain Glenn in Sarasota Fla that has Radio Electronics Institute (REI) the 1st phone license mill? After the FCC deregulated what did they do? and how did they ever get copies of the tests??
 
BIG APE said:
Don't know, but what happened to people like Dwain Glenn in Sarasota Fla that has Radio Electronics Institute (REI) the 1st phone license mill? After the FCC deregulated what did they do? and how did they ever get copies of the tests??
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They would get people who had just taken the test to come in and do a brain dump. That's how the Amateur radio test prep books used to do it before the FCC started releasing the question pools.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
I want to say that I have nothing against CSB. If it helped get that first job great. It's more against the biz, radio just isn't worth paying money to go to school for it, especially now. The standards have slipped quite a bit.
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Agreed. Not only did I graduate from CSB, I also hold an college degree (BS). Yet, to this day, as I mentioned on the New York board, I am NOT of the opinion that you have to go to either broadcasting school or college to "make it" in this racket.

Mike Sheridan said:
Yes Bub I was at "The Invisible AM" during the Charlotte O's days at Crockett Park, even went to a game there once. We ran the NC State games, UNCC 49'ers basketball and Atlanta Braves baseball too. NBC network at the top of the hour and Mutual at the bottom.

It was tough being across the glass from the number 1 station in town (WSOC-FM). Charlotte was much smaller then, lots of changes since then.
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I'm surprised there's not a mention or link of WSOC AM or FM on Kahuna's tribute site to Z-100. There's other links to other stations (including WBT) but not 'SOC. It is a great site. (www.thatwasradio.com)
 
Broadcasting school is a waste of $$$ just c if u can get an internship or something and learn how to do everything and build up some experience..i have a hs diploma no degree and im APD/MD..experience is all u need. It would also b cheaper and take less time. Radio does not pay good @ all so do something else and if u want to do radio on side bc if u do radio only u stay broke
 
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