{"id":15032,"date":"2013-07-02T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=15032"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:03:31","slug":"radio-morning-show-co-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/radio-morning-show-co-host\/","title":{"rendered":"RADIO MORNING SHOW CO-HOST WANTS PRIVACY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"morning<\/a>A Loyal Reader Writes:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“My morning show partner is asking me to keep personal events\/situations out of our on-air conversations because she’s tired of people asking questions about her private life. I told her this kind of personal detail is what makes the listener identify with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m not saying we should be like Howard Stern and tell EVERYTHING, but embarrassing stories, going to the dentist or doctor, all that kind of stuff (as long as it’s entertaining and we know where it’s going) should be in play, don’t you think?”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It all depends upon what you want to accomplish.<\/span><\/p>\n

I get the impression that your goal is to maximize your ratings, while your partner’s goal is to do her job and then live her life without the two ever intersecting.<\/span><\/p>\n

If listeners frequently ask about her personal life, that means they’re interested in her as a person.<\/span><\/p>\n

If they’re interested in her as a person, her on-air presence is making some sort of personal impact on the audience. Apparently your listeners think of her not as an “announcer” but as a human being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything else being equal, an interesting human being will garner a larger audience than an impersonal announcer. It’s a simple fact: People relate to people, not to announcers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your partner needs to ask herself, “Why am I part of a morning team? Why are there two of us instead of just one?”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If all you do is identify the songs and read the liner cards, one of you is superfluous.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact that your station has installed a 2-person team as its morning show<\/a> suggests the station’s strategy is not<\/strong> to limit the program to time & temp. Two people should equal two sets of life experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there’s no away around it: A successful radio personality is a celebrity, and with celebrityhood comes a certain loss of privacy and a presumed intimacy between you and some of your fans.<\/span><\/p>\n

life experiences.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing wrong with your partner wanting to keep her private life private. But if she restricts herself to being just a voice on the radio, she’s putting an artificially low ceiling on your show’s potential ratings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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