Cool Careers Without College for People Who Love Music by Carla Mooney

Author:Carla Mooney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

CHAPTER 7

RADIO STATION EMPLOYEE

Music broadcasters, simply put, work together to create the programs you hear on the radio. The effort of many people collaborating, or working together, is absolutely necessary to make sure that music gets from the artist to the general public. Thanks to technology, there are many opportunities to work in music broadcasting, such as the radio and Internet stations.

Disc jockeys are the people whose voices represent a station. They sometimes are known as radio personalities or announcers. DJs can introduce news, weather, and most important to us, music. Unfortunately, most DJs on the air don’t get to pick what they want to play. Instead, they are usually given a playlist by programming directors, who decide what a station is going to play, based on the station’s format, or music type. How many formats are there? Turn on a radio and turn the dial—every type of music is represented, from country to rock to rap to dance. Some smaller radio stations and Internet music sites are free-form, which means they may not play only one sort of music. These are great places to work if you want to learn about a large range of music types.

Music directors are in charge of keeping a station’s music catalog, or library, up-to-date as new recordings are released by record companies. The playlist of a station is always changing, which can be both exciting and frustrating at the same time. Every week, the programming director and music director (sometimes it’s the same person) decide which songs to drop or add from the station’s playlist.

Guess what? Radio stations also need sound engineers. People who listen to the radio want what they hear to sound good, just like concertgoers or people who want to see a Broadway show or buy a new record. Luckily, many parts of the music business are so related that with experience and training, people can do many jobs at once or move from one area to another. It takes more than one engineer to make a station run. Often, a few sound engineers will work for the chief engineer of a station, who is responsible for all of the technical aspects of a broadcast, to make sure sounds travel from the microphone to the radio speaker to our ears.

The jobs that are available in music broadcasting touch on many aspects of a business. Radio stations also need people to write material for the DJs to say, maintain the station’s electronic equipment, and to sell advertising time to businesses that want to promote their companies.

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