http://danoday.com/blog/2010/02/radio-show-prep-2/ Straight talk about radio programming, radio advertising, radio production...Well, you get the idea. Tue, 22 May 2012 15:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://danoday.com/blog/2010/02/radio-show-prep-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8679 Mike Bell Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:47:39 +0000 http://danoday.com/blog/?p=4241#comment-8679 If this sounds snarky, I apologize. If you're looking for great prep for ANY daypart, you can freely use the same source that the prep guys are using, AND quite possibly trump them in the process. The internet. We have two prep services and I use them only for the audio clips they provide. But all other content comes from things I've gleaned from news and info sites on the net. And invariably many of the things I use will turn up in our prep services a couple of days later. MSNBC, TMZ, Drudge etc. are all great sources for prep and they're the places the prep guys get their info. All Access' Net News is a fantastic resource for Country Music prep. And it's free! My local newspaper's online content is horrible (their real world content is as well) but the i-sites for our three local TV stations are great sources. Major metro area newspapers online are fantastic resources. Even Facebook. I found out Doug Fieger passed because someone posted the YouTube clip of "My Sharona" within seconds of his death being announced. I guess I was lucky in that early in my career I asked my boss for a prep service and he told me that if we did use the service, he'd reduce my salary by X amount of dollars. He told me showprep was part of my job. If he paid for a service, then I wasn't doing that part of my job. He was joking but I got the message and learned how to find my own content. In the market I was in at that time, the only source for national content was USA Today. This inevitably meant referring to a story on air as "In USA Today today." What I would've given for the internet back then. If this sounds snarky, I apologize. If you’re looking for great prep for ANY daypart, you can freely use the same source that the prep guys are using, AND quite possibly trump them in the process. The internet. We have two prep services and I use them only for the audio clips they provide. But all other content comes from things I’ve gleaned from news and info sites on the net. And invariably many of the things I use will turn up in our prep services a couple of days later. MSNBC, TMZ, Drudge etc. are all great sources for prep and they’re the places the prep guys get their info. All Access’ Net News is a fantastic resource for Country Music prep. And it’s free! My local newspaper’s online content is horrible (their real world content is as well) but the i-sites for our three local TV stations are great sources. Major metro area newspapers online are fantastic resources. Even Facebook. I found out Doug Fieger passed because someone posted the YouTube clip of “My Sharona” within seconds of his death being announced. I guess I was lucky in that early in my career I asked my boss for a prep service and he told me that if we did use the service, he’d reduce my salary by X amount of dollars. He told me showprep was part of my job. If he paid for a service, then I wasn’t doing that part of my job. He was joking but I got the message and learned how to find my own content. In the market I was in at that time, the only source for national content was USA Today. This inevitably meant referring to a story on air as “In USA Today today.” What I would’ve given for the internet back then.

]]> http://danoday.com/blog/2010/02/radio-show-prep-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8471 RadioBabe Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:44:45 +0000 http://danoday.com/blog/?p=4241#comment-8471 I voicetrack a network overnight show and haven't found a reliable source of "next day" info - TV stuff, birthdays, etc. - that I can incorporate. I record my show 10 hours before it airs and I wind up sticking to music/artist info and any "lifestyle" prep I can find. Management wants me to stay away from "odd" news, which I used to enjoy using. Any tips or advice? I voicetrack a network overnight show and haven’t found a reliable source of “next day” info – TV stuff, birthdays, etc. – that I can incorporate. I record my show 10 hours before it airs and I wind up sticking to music/artist info and any “lifestyle” prep I can find. Management wants me to stay away from “odd” news, which I used to enjoy using. Any tips or advice?

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