{"id":5162,"date":"2010-04-13T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2010-04-10T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T00:32:18","slug":"radio-dj-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/radio-dj-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER HIS AIRCHECK CRITIQUE, THE RADIO JOCK ASKED&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RadioAnnouncer.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5177\" title=\"radio announcer\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RadioAnnouncer.gif\" alt=\"radio personality aircheck critique\" width=\"134\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>Recently a veteran radio personality hired me to critique his show.<\/p>\n<p>His identity and the critique are confidential.<\/p>\n<p>But he followed up with a few questions that are broad enough to share with you.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with this one.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Less Announcer-y<\/h3>\n<p>I told him his longtime radio training was holding him back; he sounds like an &#8220;announcer&#8221; rather than a human being. Very smooth, polished&#8230;but not human.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Hint:<\/strong> People to relate to other people, not to announcers.)<\/p>\n<p>His follow-up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is tough\u2026been working on it this week and frankly, I think I talk in regular conversations this way (lol)\u2026I have worked on sounding so smooth for so long\u2026I think I talk this way now, I have total strangers tell me every day \u201cyou should be on the radio.\u201d After your comment, I\u2019m starting to think this may be a bad thing. Any suggestions???<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>My Reply:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will take time.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that people tell you you should be on the radio suggests that to them you sound like a &#8220;radio announcer&#8221; \u2014 which is what you need to evolve beyond. That deeply ingrained habitual smoothness puts up a barrier between you and the individual listener.<\/p>\n<p><em>Suggestion:<\/em> Record yourself talking on the phone for, say, two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean you should wiretap your conversations. Just put a mic next to your phone and have it record you whenever you talk to a <strong>non<\/strong>-business acquaintance (family member, close friend, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Then listen to those recordings and see if your tone differs from the one you use on-air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a veteran radio personality hired me to critique his show. His identity and the critique are confidential. But he followed up with a few questions that are broad enough to share with you. Beginning with this one. 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