Sunday, April 12, 2009

Radio

so i really enjoy doing radio at on the college station, though i have to completely admit i feel very immature for it. my show is two hours of basically screaming music.
(if you are into that, every tuesday night from 6-8 on 95.5 or www.wngrradio.com)
this is why. i walked into the station and the only reason that i'm basically on the air is gloria hiatt teaching me the ropes so quickly. but the problem lies here. people listening to the radio don't want to hear what i want to hear, or hear me jabber about what i think is important to a bunch of cushy walls.
i suppose i understand that in the real world of radio you basically start out as i have, and many people in the station do, but listening to themselves talk and maybe getting 5 sections of prerecorded air time introducting a song on a real station.
what i want to know. is am i different than everyone else you'd hear on the radio? (granted the fact that trey lancaster and i play mostly screaming music)
i've been dabbling with the fact of making a pitch to a local station (maybe shine 96.7) about doing an intership, where i have a once a week show that plays harder rock, maybe even some metal, with an encouraging message.
i doubt anyone is competeing with the horrible metal that 93.3 plays on their late show, or on upstate unsigned.
question is, and haunts me. should i go in guns blazing even with my immaturity in true broadcasting and pitch a show to where people could hear encouraging, hard music on the radio once a week? would that even work?
i dunno. more thinking to come. blogging is cool.

1 comment:

  1. now, I am not a fan of the screaming music, but your idea is a good one. (the maturity will come in time - i hope!) something my dad taught me is that the answer is always no if you don't ask. if you have a passion for it and a drive to get people to listen to the kind of music they like, but that has a positive message, why couldn't it work? It could...

    and chris, you are different!

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