{"id":10760,"date":"2011-08-16T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2011-08-15T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T06:24:22","slug":"radio-voice-tracking-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/radio-voice-tracking-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"DOES RADIO VOICE TRACKING HAVE TO BE BORING?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA Loyal Reader Writes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“In addition to my job as Production Director<\/a> for a station group, I voicetrack a Sunday night shift on a small town station in another market.<\/p>\n

“I do this shift for free because the program director is a buddy of mine and I’m just helping him out.<\/p>\n

“What can I do to spice up the show a bit?<\/p>\n

“This station doesn’t have much to promote because they don’t have the money for big events.<\/p>\n

“I can’t do weather, because I’m voicetracking from 100 miles away.<\/p>\n

“It gets boring just doing ramps between songs and a pre-break sell.<\/p>\n

“Any ideas (keeping in mind that I do this for free, so hours of show prep isn’t what I’m looking for)?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even if the radio station doesn’t do big events, presumably they do something<\/strong> on their airwaves.<\/p>\n

Your PD friend should make sure you know everything that’s happening at that station, all the staff, and can talk about the station, its programming and its people as though you’re right there.<\/p>\n

“It gets boring just doing ramps between songs and a pre-break sell.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assuming you know what songs are being played, there’s no limit to how creative you can be in relating to the music \u2014 even in a brief time.<\/p>\n

“Hours of show prep isn’t what I’m looking for.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The secret to any good show \u2014 live or recorded, paid or unpaid \u2014 is show prep.<\/p>\n

Your listeners don’t know (or care) that you’re not being paid; you’re the disc jockey on their radio station.<\/p>\n

I say this seriously and without any sarcasm or criticism: If the fact that you’re not paid means you can’t afford to do enough prep to deliver a good show, “just say no;” stop doing the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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