Wed Nov 12: what's in it for me?

Greetings radio children,

In all the years I've been teaching, I have always tried to make my classes as "real world" as possible. Today, I want you to imagine this: that you have been so inspired by my magnificent classes that you decide that you are going to "break into" radio. In other words, you'll get paid to do what you're doing now for free.

Or will you? As you might have guessed, there are more jobs in radio than just sitting behind the microphone. So let's look at some of what goes on then -- besides everything else, when we FINALLY get some DJs in here, you'll probably have better questions to ask them.

(BTW, IF YOU STILL NEED TO COMPLETE YOUR INTERVIEWS, PLEASE DO SO. THIS ASSIGNMENT DOES NOT EXCUSE YOU FROM THAT.)

OK, so here we go:

STEP1 Identify at least seven different types of jobs that actually have anything to do with working in radio. Now, you could get a book out of a library or from guidance on what those jobs are. Or you could go where they place ads to get people to work at a radio station. Here are some places where you can find out some actual jobs:

http://www.bestradiojobs.com/
this site has a search feature underneath "Find Full or Part Time Work" where you set the "Job Type" to Radio Positions, then hit find. You'll get tons of ads, each with a position offered.
http://www.careerpage.org/search.php
this site also has a search feature, but they've got the job titles set up in a convenient little pull down menu
http://www.airtalents.com/
http://www.cpb.org/jobline/
http://www.massmediajobs.com/
http://www.amfmjobs.com/
http://msi.amfmjobs.com/quick.html
this link has a search feature where you can type in the "call letters" and find out the employment info for any radio station in America
http://www.npr.org/about/jobs/index.html

As you find the name of a job AND find out a little bit about what that job is all about (about a sentence or two for each job), you might want to start writing this stuff down, along with the address of the webpage where you found this information. When you've got all seven done, please post a discussion to our Google group. Title it after yourself, plus the words "radio jobs I've found"

When that's setup, I will post the next blog posting about the next step I want you to take

Cheers,

Mr. L