STRAIGHT TALK FROM CURRENT AND
FORMER
RADIO CONNECTION STUDENTS AND MENTORS
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I am
Kathleen Collins and you are listening to smooth jazz 99 FM. Hi I am
Kathleen Collins and I am standing in front of KEZX radio station in
Seattle Washington. This is where I come everyday to train to be a
radio announcer. Lets go in and take a look okay. This is the hallway
to the entrance of KEZX FM. It has some of the pictures of the
musicians that have visited our station. Here we are in the sales area
of KEZX Fm. This is where all the advertising is sold and without it a
radio station literally couldn’t stay on the air. Sow lets go see what
Dave’s doing in the production room. Hi we are in the production room
now where Dave McKay the program director and my personal instructor is
working on a project. My latest project, it’s a music project, we are
in the process of putting music on to hard drive through the
computer. Kathleen and I have spent a lot of time in the production
room over the past few months working on some of the very basic things
in broadcasting from recording on to reel to reel and then on to
cart to recording on to now which is on to computer. And recording
commercials onto computer and also we will be putting music on the
computer too. So Kathleen has had great opportunity here to learn some
of the very basic things up to some of the more sophisticated things in
the broadcast business these days. She is a terrific student and I am
absolutely delighted to have her in the radio station. Thanks Dave. You
are welcome. And I am delighted to have him as my instructor. He has
taught me everything.
Kathleen Collins - Radio Connection Student
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I
highly recommend Radio Connection over
traditional colleges and schools because it really gets you into the
field as quickly as possible. You are working one on one someone who is
already in the field and also the important thing for me is and I am
still doing it right now, obviously I want to be full time again in
radio, but right now it allows me to still have my job because we are
able to be flexible about the hours you can, Sam and I worked together
after work which worked out for both of us. I was still able to
maintain my job, pay my rent and all that fun stuff while still
pursuing the radio field. So it worked out in terms of the timing, able
to do both and then ultimately get the gigs through at networking.
Mayan Levinson - Radio Connection Student
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People
who are running a radio station have to trust you. They have to
know who you are. You have to have a face and a resume. Obviously
getting into radio and getting into television is like getting with the
NFL. People say how did you get to be a DJ? How did you get to be on
TV? Or if you want to be a DJ you just throw out an application. Oh you
are right. Yeah hello I want to play for the New York Giants. Now I got
to go up to the Meadowlands, I am going to go to Brandenburg Arena. I
am going to fill an application, play for the Giants. Yes I would like
to be a defensive tackle. No it doesn’t work that way. Its connections
man. Connections is the name of the game and Career Connections is what
this is all about. Joe - Radio Connection Mentor
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