If you love radio...?!
Question:
If you love radio...?
If you love radio when your young, does it just follow you your whole life, like its in your blood?
Answers: I've loved radio since i was about 5 years old, when i got my first radio. Ever since then I've loved radio. But since i was 13 i wanted my own radio station, I'm sure if i work hard in radio it will be in my blood! I have worked in radio for 24 years. Yep, it's a lifestyle. You mean: kinda like the circus?
If you find yourself wondering how the guy got that promotional announcement to sound just the way it did...
If you ever wonder how the DJ keeps the songs straight without playing them over again at the wrong time...
If you ever wondered how much the Ford dealer actually paid for that commercial...
If you find yourself on websites that talk about formats, music flow, promos, IDs and you can't get enough...
If you listen to AM way into the night and get a kick out of hearing a station that's hundreds of miles away...
If you talk up records to a make-believe microphone in your bathroom while looking in the mirror...
If, when you are old enough, you find yourself driving a couple hundred miles to listen to a new station that just changed formats...
If you hang around station events and get to know the go-fers, then the jox...
If you find yourself exchanging airchecks with others you find on the net...
if you know what an aircheck even is...
You get the picture. You pursue it, you'll get it, you'll be one of us; and it will be forever. yeah i think so w/o a doubt noe, cuz myoosik stilez chayng Duh you should make that into a PSA :)
I hated radio music-wise but i lucked into the job when i was in high school, its sure following me now, i love it though. Yes, it does. I was 21 when I first went on air--when there were NO MP3s or CD music media, "spinning" 45rpm and/or 33 1/2 rpm records on turntables. Sounds like ancient history--but it wasn't THAT LONG ago.
It didn't matter what format the station ran on. It didn't matter if I was fully on-air, or sound engineering a live remote event--I LOVED working on air. I was zone-focused on sounding as best I as could---and did impressively well.
It's a far far different business today than back when I was on air. All my radio heroes have gone on to either full retirement or are involved in successful off air business ventures. I'm not too thrilled to hear radio has taken the satellite and/or automated turn the business has embraced as it has; the human element sorely needs to return to radio.
Exactly 10 years passed between my first and last radio broadcast....what a wild fun time things were in between.
A week don't go by that I don't stop and ponder on those fun days of radio broadcasting. I was never really into radio (I mean, I listened in the car a little bit, but mostly listened to cassettes/CDs). But I got into radio when I first got satellite radio. Now I'd call myself a junkie. My CDs mostly collect dust. Yes I love the radio. I'm gettign away from it though coz I have an I-pod. But I listen to it when I take a shower and just want to hear something diferent.