This is the big week for Garrett's washer and dryer give away! We will be drawing for them this black Friday...although I won't even be there for all of the excitement because I'll be gone for break! But, congrats to the lucky person who wins :)
I'm definitely ready for a break though. I'm starting to get very drained from school and getting up so early everyday, and it's really starting to show through my voice on-air. So hopefully I'll be back up to normal after I get some rest over break :) Happy early Thanksgiving to all, and I'll be back in a week! Have a fabulous manic Monday :)
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Rush Limbaugh being shut down...
Maybe Rush Limbaugh is a popular in the world of politic radio, but he sometimes can be proved wrong or in this case, be shut down by a caller...check it out!
The top 5 radio personalities of all time...according to Talker's Magazine
Here is the top 5 radio personalities of all time....according to Talker's Magazine.
1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Howard Stern
3. Don Imus
4. Larry King
5. Sally Jessy Raphael
What makes them so great? It's their passion, followed by their ability to make the complex understandable, their sense of humor, and willingness to stick with their beleifs. Limbaugh is a great example of this because he brings to his on-air analysis an understanding of the media, politics, human nature, history, the market, and many other factors. Often he is able to see past the façade people and organizations erect to disguise or soften their intent because he recognizes patterns he has understood and noted before. Also "Rush has a devotion to discovering the truth. This is why Rush sticks by his beliefs: because he believes he is on a quest for the truth, and over time, as Shakespeare put it, "the truth will out.""
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/why_is_rush_limbaugh_so_popula.html
1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Howard Stern
3. Don Imus
4. Larry King
5. Sally Jessy Raphael
What makes them so great? It's their passion, followed by their ability to make the complex understandable, their sense of humor, and willingness to stick with their beleifs. Limbaugh is a great example of this because he brings to his on-air analysis an understanding of the media, politics, human nature, history, the market, and many other factors. Often he is able to see past the façade people and organizations erect to disguise or soften their intent because he recognizes patterns he has understood and noted before. Also "Rush has a devotion to discovering the truth. This is why Rush sticks by his beliefs: because he believes he is on a quest for the truth, and over time, as Shakespeare put it, "the truth will out.""
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/why_is_rush_limbaugh_so_popula.html
What makes an overall good radio station?
In my search for what makes an overall great radio station, I came across a great web page that basically sums it all up in three different categories. Check it out for yourself as I have sourced the most important pieces of information here. Source: http://www.enati.com/lance/radio/goodradio.html
"First of all, there have to be personalities that are captivating, voices that are friends you would let into your home. So-called good radio voices help, but even a man with a raspy voice like KGO's Bernie Ward can fit the bill by building a relationship with the listener. On music radio, this means having something interesting to say between songs, but not something shocking (the obvious example being Howard Stern) or assenine. Stations that claim to emphasize music and completely gag their humans are missing the point."
"The truly great radio stations are clearly local. In the case of music radio, that often means sponsoring events in the community, from food drives to free outdoor concerts where people from the station appear, but it can also take the form of play lists emphasizing local artists or ignoring national charts in favor of local record sales. In talk radio, that means having local people talking about local events for at least a good portion of the day. Good syndicated personalities don't need to be excluded, but the best stations have a good sprinkling of people that understand the community."
"Finally, a good radio station sounds familiar while never failing to surprise. On the music radio side, this means having a clear "sound" while not limiting the play list to forty songs. When a new song comes on, the listener should not have been able to predict it but it should flow from the previous piece."
"First of all, there have to be personalities that are captivating, voices that are friends you would let into your home. So-called good radio voices help, but even a man with a raspy voice like KGO's Bernie Ward can fit the bill by building a relationship with the listener. On music radio, this means having something interesting to say between songs, but not something shocking (the obvious example being Howard Stern) or assenine. Stations that claim to emphasize music and completely gag their humans are missing the point."
"The truly great radio stations are clearly local. In the case of music radio, that often means sponsoring events in the community, from food drives to free outdoor concerts where people from the station appear, but it can also take the form of play lists emphasizing local artists or ignoring national charts in favor of local record sales. In talk radio, that means having local people talking about local events for at least a good portion of the day. Good syndicated personalities don't need to be excluded, but the best stations have a good sprinkling of people that understand the community."
"Finally, a good radio station sounds familiar while never failing to surprise. On the music radio side, this means having a clear "sound" while not limiting the play list to forty songs. When a new song comes on, the listener should not have been able to predict it but it should flow from the previous piece."
Some more hands on expereince...
I am really starting to get the hang of this whole radio thing...Today, DJ Becci was gone so I had to take over for what she usually does. I was a little intimidated by the idea because Scott runs his show on a really tight schedule and I didn't want to mess anything up!
It started off well and I eventually messed up a few things, but it's crazy how just from watching Becci everyday, I actually get a grasp on things. I've never really had to run all the equipment by myself, but after I got the hang of it it was actually kind of fun! It also made the time go by a lot faster and I felt way more involved in the talk show. Scott said he will bring me in some afternoon to really sit down and get a grasp on how all the equipment works. That is definitely something I'd like to have more knowledge of. Happy Friday :)
It started off well and I eventually messed up a few things, but it's crazy how just from watching Becci everyday, I actually get a grasp on things. I've never really had to run all the equipment by myself, but after I got the hang of it it was actually kind of fun! It also made the time go by a lot faster and I felt way more involved in the talk show. Scott said he will bring me in some afternoon to really sit down and get a grasp on how all the equipment works. That is definitely something I'd like to have more knowledge of. Happy Friday :)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
I learned lots of new things today!
Today, on this glorious Tuesday, Scott had me come into the the radio station to learn some new stuff. I was actually very excited about this because I am not one to enjoy doing the same thing everyday.
He showed me how to use the Adobe Edit program which was pretty simple actually. It looks a lot more intimidating than it really is. I got to edit a Hometown Husker interview with Faron Klinghoeffer (not sure on that spelling!)
I never realized that when your interviewing someone on the phone they say "ummmm" and "welllll" and "annnndddd" a lot as word fillers Oh! and "ya knoooww." haha
Well my job was to get rid of all that junk to make Faron not sound like an idiot. Not gonna lie, I made him sound pretty darn smart! It was like he didn't even have to think about the question before answering it! Haha...ohh the power of technology :)
He showed me how to use the Adobe Edit program which was pretty simple actually. It looks a lot more intimidating than it really is. I got to edit a Hometown Husker interview with Faron Klinghoeffer (not sure on that spelling!)
I never realized that when your interviewing someone on the phone they say "ummmm" and "welllll" and "annnndddd" a lot as word fillers Oh! and "ya knoooww." haha
Well my job was to get rid of all that junk to make Faron not sound like an idiot. Not gonna lie, I made him sound pretty darn smart! It was like he didn't even have to think about the question before answering it! Haha...ohh the power of technology :)
I'm Backkkkkk!!!!
We have a pretty big week coming up on the station because the CMA's are this week! I'm not a huge country fan, but I'm trying, I promise I really am. I mean I am interning at a country station so I should probably get used to it and learn to like it. What I have I learned about country so far? Here is is! (Source:http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/662845.html)
1. "Atlanta, rather than Nashville, should have become "Music City, U.S.A." Not only was there was more local talent in Atlanta, but more importantly, in the mid-1920s the five elements that together made commercial country music possible: radio, record making, live touring, song writing, and song publishing, all came together in Atlanta."
2. "Jimmie Rodgers, the "Father of Country Music," didn't think he was the father of anything but three daughters. When "discovered" by Ralph Peer of RCA he was just trying to be a snappy southern vaudeville act. In a letter to his wife, Carrie, he said derisively of the music Peer wanted him to perform: "If I can't get 'em in town, we'll go to the woods." In the same year—1927—Peer also "discovered" the Carter Family."
3. "Henry Ford, the auto maker, put more money into promoting country music in the 1920s than anyone else. Ford was frightened by what he saw as the urban decadence of couples jazz dancing. In response he organized fiddling contests and promoted square dances across the country to encourage what he saw as the older, more wholesome forms of entertainment."
4. "How did "western" get linked to "country"? Credit (or blame) Hollywood. Luckily, Hollywood didn't call the tune, just the dress code. Gene Autry and other Western-cowboy-outfitted artists were much more popular in B films of the 1930s and 1940s than were their Southern-hillbilly-styled counterparts like Roy Acuff. So, emerging honky-tonk artists like Patsy Montana, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Rex Griffin, and Webb Pierce donned cowboy-styled outfits to sing their hillbilly songs of life's travails. Increasingly backed by hot, electrified instruments, they shaped the sound, lyric, and look that has been at the core of country music ever since."
5. "Why is country music called "country?" Joe McCarthy, the anti-Communist witch-hunting Senator from Wisconsin, had a lot to do with it. From the late 1940s country had been a musical genre in search of a label—something less degrading than "hillbilly." Everything from "old-time" to "oat tunes" was tried out, but "folk" gained currency with the unexpected success of the Weavers, whose hits included "Goodnight Irene" and "On Top of Old Smoky." Even Hank Williams called himself a folk singer. Then came the 1952 Senate hearings, where McCarthy demanded that the Weavers' lead singer, Pete Seeger, testify about his "Communist leanings." The industry dropped "folk" like a hot rock and "country and western" or simply "country" came into wide use."
6. "What is authentic country music? Authenticity in performance has a completely different meaning than authenticity with reference to objects. Authenticating a document or work of art involves finding whether it is the original object. However, if you are an authentic performer, let's say, and I copy your look, lyric, or style, I am to that degree imitating and not authentic. Thus what is taken to be authentic is continually changing. Will country music survive the millennium? Is authentic country music fading with the passing of the country artists born into Southern rural poverty during the Great Depression years: Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard? Could be, but not necessarily."
That's the most intriguing but interesting things I came across. Happy Country Music to all!
1. "Atlanta, rather than Nashville, should have become "Music City, U.S.A." Not only was there was more local talent in Atlanta, but more importantly, in the mid-1920s the five elements that together made commercial country music possible: radio, record making, live touring, song writing, and song publishing, all came together in Atlanta."
2. "Jimmie Rodgers, the "Father of Country Music," didn't think he was the father of anything but three daughters. When "discovered" by Ralph Peer of RCA he was just trying to be a snappy southern vaudeville act. In a letter to his wife, Carrie, he said derisively of the music Peer wanted him to perform: "If I can't get 'em in town, we'll go to the woods." In the same year—1927—Peer also "discovered" the Carter Family."
3. "Henry Ford, the auto maker, put more money into promoting country music in the 1920s than anyone else. Ford was frightened by what he saw as the urban decadence of couples jazz dancing. In response he organized fiddling contests and promoted square dances across the country to encourage what he saw as the older, more wholesome forms of entertainment."
4. "How did "western" get linked to "country"? Credit (or blame) Hollywood. Luckily, Hollywood didn't call the tune, just the dress code. Gene Autry and other Western-cowboy-outfitted artists were much more popular in B films of the 1930s and 1940s than were their Southern-hillbilly-styled counterparts like Roy Acuff. So, emerging honky-tonk artists like Patsy Montana, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Rex Griffin, and Webb Pierce donned cowboy-styled outfits to sing their hillbilly songs of life's travails. Increasingly backed by hot, electrified instruments, they shaped the sound, lyric, and look that has been at the core of country music ever since."
5. "Why is country music called "country?" Joe McCarthy, the anti-Communist witch-hunting Senator from Wisconsin, had a lot to do with it. From the late 1940s country had been a musical genre in search of a label—something less degrading than "hillbilly." Everything from "old-time" to "oat tunes" was tried out, but "folk" gained currency with the unexpected success of the Weavers, whose hits included "Goodnight Irene" and "On Top of Old Smoky." Even Hank Williams called himself a folk singer. Then came the 1952 Senate hearings, where McCarthy demanded that the Weavers' lead singer, Pete Seeger, testify about his "Communist leanings." The industry dropped "folk" like a hot rock and "country and western" or simply "country" came into wide use."
6. "What is authentic country music? Authenticity in performance has a completely different meaning than authenticity with reference to objects. Authenticating a document or work of art involves finding whether it is the original object. However, if you are an authentic performer, let's say, and I copy your look, lyric, or style, I am to that degree imitating and not authentic. Thus what is taken to be authentic is continually changing. Will country music survive the millennium? Is authentic country music fading with the passing of the country artists born into Southern rural poverty during the Great Depression years: Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard? Could be, but not necessarily."
That's the most intriguing but interesting things I came across. Happy Country Music to all!
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