I have absolutely fallen in love with this thing called radio. (to bad it is dying)
It is a great place to use a recording engineering degree and it’s a pretty fun job too.
Oh and I am News-Talk, none of this “celebrity birthday / here is your next song” crap. We talk for hours over here.
I owe much of my foundation to a little corny show called Tradio.
Tradio has taught me to:
1. Be friendly
2. Multi-task like crazy
3. Control the air
4. Listen, talk, write, calculate and read (at the same time) on live air
The rest is advice I have collected from broadcasters.
Mike Huckabee – Talk as if you are speaking to a friend across the dinner table. Talk to just one person.
JD Hayworth – We all have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Listen.
Phil Hendrie – Record yourself every night. Don’t Listen to it, just write down what you liked and didn’t like.
Jeff Edwards – Don’t reveal what is really happening. This is theatre of the mind.
Dave Nash – Always speak with a smile. It comes through.
Red Mountain – Speak from your diaphragm. Don’t puke.
Russ Clark – Prep as if there were no phones, commercials, or guests. In fact, you want to over prep.
Jay Fox – Practice speaking with a football mouth guard in your mouth.
I am thankful to be able to learn such things from such great people.
Let me clear up a comment I made at the top. I think radio will always be around, however in just my little time here I see how the industry has changed dramatically. I think the New-Talkers will be needed. They have to fill time. However, I think music stations will become more like internet radio piped into transmitter towers. That is if we still use the traditional transmitters and receivers. Only time will tell.