BTS | what it's really like working at a radio station

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @snugglebunnyhaven7258
    @snugglebunnyhaven7258 2 года назад +49

    As an old radio personality and engineer, it's so strange to see stations voice tracked. So much is missed now days for younger people coming into the biz. I started out running on air midnight to 6 AM totally live. There wasn't any such thing as computers in the studios. On air mistakes was just part of the job, and learning how to come out of them. Back timing programming was 9/10ths of the art and running on the fly. Loading CDs and selecting the correct tracks, loading tape cartridges containing spots as well as music. Multi tasking recording spots and promos on the same console that is on the air in audition but also having to pay attention to the length of the song before it runs out. Cuing up records on turntables. Actively running the show and talking live on the air 4-6 hours strait. Taking transmitter readings and EBS/EAS test. There were also contests where with some you talked to the listener live on the air complete with mistakes. Some cases like requests or call ins we recorded the calls on a reel to reel. Had to do all this while monitoring the current on air programming.

    • @skynightokc2811
      @skynightokc2811 11 месяцев назад +2

      Amen, Brother, amen. There was a time when the all-night show was just that. No pre-recorded dj, just the hits,coffee (lots of coffee) and the all nite truckers, h**kers and cops kept listening. 3 to 4 am was sometimes murder to get through, and the morning man ( not team) rolled in 5:20 nursing a hangover. Now that was radio, not this corporate, sanitary, digital bs! Oh, "social media" was the request line, and if the local newspaper media critic had something good to say.

    • @dormantrabbits
      @dormantrabbits 10 месяцев назад +1

      As a nightshift worker (6pm-6am), I really appreciate the feeling that I'm not completely isolated in the world (minus the odd Dennys or 7-11) and to hear a real person who's up and working at the same time and is really "with me" rather than just a program. I can listen to anything I want over the internet, but you can't fake a live DJ.

    • @angelprezcarametro7253
      @angelprezcarametro7253 6 месяцев назад

      Thanks for sharing your experience. I used to work in a small radio station in Santiago (Chile) in the early 90s. Before computers and automation systems. Although it was not a "top 40" station (it aired Jazz and derivative music styles), daylight shows (not many) were mostly live (one announcer + technician in the control room), other shows after 20:00 or weekends were pre-recorded on open-reel or DAT. But there was an exception, the the 13:00 newscast, it was pre-recorded around 15 minutes before being aired, why? since our radio station aim was to sound "perfect" in every aspect (it was allegedly the radio station with the best sound, the best music and the best voices in the city), so the newscast should also sound perfect and for that purpose the script and pronunciation of the news reader on air should also sound perfect and we were there to correct the announcer, specially English or foreign words (let's remember we were in Chile, a non-English speaking country); additionally, most phrases and voices announcing musicians and names of songs (most of them names of American jazz musicians) had to be checked and corrected, if applicable, before being recorded and/or aired. Note: In Chile, the cartridge system you used in United States was never used in our radio stations; all music was played directly from discs or CDs in those pre-computer days. Voices were recorded in open-reel (and then DATs nearer the 2000s), but never in cartridges (I remember there was ONE radio station that used cartridges in the late 90s or early 2000s, but that was an exception). Smaller-budget radio stations or others in small towns also used cassettes, but that is another story.

    • @Aaliyahchannel2024
      @Aaliyahchannel2024 4 месяца назад

      Agreed voice tracking is terrible but Networking is killing the industry

  • @johnburton7733
    @johnburton7733 Год назад +3

    Great job i plan on having a soon so I love why your doing.

  • @viptevb
    @viptevb 2 года назад +8

    I own my own radio station and TV network and I love this video. Showing our audience what we do is fun and getting them connected amazingly. Do more of these fun videos.

  • @HomebrewStew
    @HomebrewStew 11 месяцев назад

    Good job! I'm in the process of putting together a reggae show at a station in Philadelphia after being away from the business for 50 years.

  • @erinsulvan1783
    @erinsulvan1783 Год назад +4

    I have many friends who are or were employed by your current employer. One of them was let go from voice tracking her shift due to the implementation of Martha Quinn being added to multiple stations. Your current employer doesn’t have a problem removing humans from their payroll. That’s sad, but it is what it is. Enjoy your time with that company. Have a backup plan. Because in the end . If they don’t want you employed there. They will let you go.

    • @tcttvradio
      @tcttvradio Год назад

      That’s all you had to add? She’s super talented, gorgeous and will go from strength to strength, I know lots of midnight shift DJs that went on to be successful.

  • @captainkeyboard1007
    @captainkeyboard1007 2 года назад +5

    Those studios look nice and comfortable. That should take the boredom out of work and make it fun. "12 am," or "midnight," makes no difference what you say, both are exactly the same phrase. Keep on doing what you are doing!

  • @8691cc
    @8691cc 2 года назад +3

    I 🧡 ur intro & I’m living for the content. 🙂

  • @Texasbber
    @Texasbber Год назад +4

    I got out of radio in the 80's...glad I did. This type of radio looks so boring.

    • @richb.4374
      @richb.4374 7 месяцев назад

      Radio is now robotic crap. Prerecorded DJ's....ugh.

  • @elvictoramaya
    @elvictoramaya Год назад +3

    That Re-20 front grill... i mean...

  • @thesurreal-v
    @thesurreal-v Год назад +1

    So fresh. U did phenon girl!

  • @InsideOfMyOwnMind
    @InsideOfMyOwnMind 2 года назад +2

    So it would seem that what we now call a station is a studio complex serving multiple media outlets, you know, the things we used to call radio stations. It was always inevitable that it would take this current form like it or hate it.

  • @craigroberts6439
    @craigroberts6439 2 года назад +16

    Too bad you didn’t work in radio when it was real radio, live 24/7 when owners and managers actually gave a crap about the product. You really missed a terrific experience. Sorry to say, this isn’t radio. I was so fortunate to play the hits on some of americas greatest stations for a lot of years. Saddens me greatly to see what’s happened to a once great and fun industry.

  • @J.B24
    @J.B24 2 года назад +3

    I live in the Orlando area as well. I'd like to work here. How hard is it to get a job here?

  • @bgolledge502
    @bgolledge502 Год назад

    Hhaha voice tracking is great zetta is a another big one of the radio world very cool

  • @michaelfoland2007
    @michaelfoland2007 Год назад +3

    I have a die-hard passion for radio, but radio needs to go back to live instead of VoiceTracking. I know IHeart also uses Premium Choice :(

  • @TheRenard10
    @TheRenard10 9 месяцев назад

    I have my own private radio station, on Spotify. Rather than hiring a licensee, i have my own playlist of sentimental RNB songs.

  • @michaelfoland2007
    @michaelfoland2007 Год назад +1

    I have an Internet Radio Station, and I actually have the EV RE-20 mic :)

  • @djmasterdan4422
    @djmasterdan4422 2 года назад +1

    Do you still do radio station still though

  • @fhowland
    @fhowland Год назад +2

    Not sure what this is, but it’s not the radio that I know.

    • @richb.4374
      @richb.4374 7 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks to Clear Channel and I Heart....this trash is now supposedly radio. A computer generated "show" is not real radio.

  • @tcttvradio
    @tcttvradio Год назад

    Subbed, I like your car studio lol..

  • @markhuotari3909
    @markhuotari3909 6 месяцев назад

    i dont work at a radio station
    but thats my dream job

  • @MSWEET
    @MSWEET 2 года назад

    I wish we will open our hip hop radio station soon

  • @kristophersmith6609
    @kristophersmith6609 2 года назад

    He said all 50 people. 😂. Thanks for the insider tour.

  • @sonypictures9851
    @sonypictures9851 Год назад +3

    Radio is pretty much dead compared to the 60's, 70's & 80's. The reason radio can be summed up in two words... "talentless talent." DJs today have little to no ON Air talent, especially when compared to DJs of the 1960's and 70's. Imagine if you will, using a present day DJ in the movie American Graffiti. Sounds pretty stupid, right? Well, yeah! DJs of today do not connect with their audience. They don't make the audience feel entertained and by all means they don't make the listening audience feel that personal connection to the DJ.

  • @MSWEET
    @MSWEET 2 года назад

    Beautiful

  • @bell8381
    @bell8381 2 года назад +2

    Do you have to be experienced to work there?

    • @KJ6JCKPDX
      @KJ6JCKPDX 2 года назад +6

      apparently not

    • @fazbell
      @fazbell 2 года назад +2

      To work in a market the size of Orlando, experience is a necessity. Radio does not pay that well, either.

  • @letsplaychronicles9483
    @letsplaychronicles9483 2 года назад +3

    you forget the minimum of 2 times to touch your hair.... 🤦‍♂

  • @michaellawrence8327
    @michaellawrence8327 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @mosengoanaesther3366
    @mosengoanaesther3366 Год назад

    ❤🎉😊

  • @parveen-papola-pahade-guru-RJ
    @parveen-papola-pahade-guru-RJ 2 года назад

    New frinds wellcome to you

  • @scottyTy
    @scottyTy Год назад +2

    Whats it like working in radio?. Don't know since you can make more money working at Walmart!.

    • @ziviviz
      @ziviviz 9 месяцев назад

      if someone cared about Walmart, they would go watch a video about Walmart, not a radio station

  • @parveen-papola-pahade-guru-RJ
    @parveen-papola-pahade-guru-RJ 2 года назад

    I can undarstand you english langwes mam

  • @tcttvradio
    @tcttvradio Год назад

    Oops you left the hospital and fully handled the mask in your hand and then brought it up to your face. Hope you didn’t get sick! Hospitals are the worst place to touch a mask.. The nurses taught me how to remove it using each finger on the strings and dump it in a bin.

  • @oboogie80
    @oboogie80 Год назад +2

    It was much better when FM was "underground". Not crappy AM like it is now. Same garbage over and over. Commercials up the yoohoo. Just crap. Stoned sounding DJ's played whole albums sometimes. Great times. Now days you'd think on a "classic rock" station the only song Deep Purple had was "Smoke On The Water".

  • @ashoknayaki7776
    @ashoknayaki7776 Год назад

    Gideon BIBLE APP
    Please Announcement
    in radio studio

  • @paulsteezo1772
    @paulsteezo1772 Год назад +1

    She DEFINITELY HAS A FACE FOR RADIO...

  • @TheKnobCalledTone.
    @TheKnobCalledTone. Год назад +1

    You forgot to show all the backstabbing, rampant narcissism and blatant sexual harassment that goes on in radio, but other than that good job..