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moving from country to cap-city-what does it take?
close down the hubs and keep the stations 100% local more jobs for more jocks.
how to stop the same callers wining all the free stuff
the odd f word good or bad (in the tracks not on the Mic)
How about this one. "The ABA, Requiem or Recovery"
The worst ideas in Australian Radio. Funny stories of the worst promotions ever - what has bombed? Regrettable formats?
Possibly something light and bright like, "Who has been your greatest on-air role model... and why?", or "Humorous on-air gaffes and studio foul-ups". I bet there's some great stories to be read. Just an idea!
PDs - Minds of Their Own?! What do you think?
Remember at school, how one year your English teacher would love the way you wrote and gave you As. Another teacher the next year would hate your style. Same at Uni, one lecturer would love your work, another didn’t. Now, I’ve noticed a similar system seems to apply to Program Directors. Though I truly do appreciate the little bit of feedback I receive from the few PDs who care to give me their thoughts on the hundreds of airchecks I’ll send out in a year, I’ve recently noticed that the guidelines I’m given, and adhere to for the progress of my On-Air work, don’t seem to apply to many people I hear On-Air, especially those working in cities and Capital cities.
I LISTEN to other stations when I drive around the country. I listen to stations on-line. Although the On-Air talent (Breakfast and solo shifts) may be entertaining, they seem to break so many rules that I am told to follow. It makes me wonder who airchecks them, and how? For example, there’s a thoroughly entertaining Breakky team in Melbourne, however, they break the rule of SHORT breaks (sometimes they chat on for minutes), they talk all over each other, they discuss MORE than one point or topic in a single break etc – all criticisms to most of us receiving an aircheck. I was listening to a station in Toowoomba the other week, and not one but two separate announcers, had disorganised breaks (eg. back announced one song, made a reference to a completely different point then back announced the second-last song!?) and lengthy breaks – another opposite to what I’m told when being airchecked (from several different sources, I’ll add) – short, concise and entertaining (if possible and appropriate).
Sometimes it’s difficult to understand exactly HOW to get that next gig in radio. You’re working hard on trying to do ‘all the right things’ On-Air, only to notice those in, usually far better gigs than yourself, don’t appear to be airchecked in the same way others are, if at all.
In response to PDs a mind of their own. You sound like a bitter person that cant get the next gig in radio. Being anal about "Short breaks" applies to those jocks that are just hanging in there and are back announcing puppets. The reason that these metro stations and the others that you made reference to are getting away with it is because they have personality, and that goes much further that being a "that was, this is" jock. Its true that you shouldn't crap on for the sake of it, but if you can inject personality into it, it usually makes it ok. PDs make judgement on the individual, and these people usually can step outside "the rules".