Comments | little_details: Your alternative tasks for college radio

calieber in little_details

Your alternative tasks for college radio

Mar 28, 2006 22:36

For my girlfriend, who isn't a member yet: what would someone be doing in the studio of a college radio station if they weren't on-air talent? My recollection is "nothing in particular or official," but maybe someone whose school actually cared about the student radio station has had a different experience.

~radio

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rosewildeirish March 29 2006, 03:41:01 UTC

General manager and music director in mine both took shifts, but didn't have to.

Sales didn't - and college radio needs ads, too. If it's a not for profit, you still have "sponsorship" et all. Promotions still needed prizes, too; sales kind of did double duty there.

News - though they generally also read the news on air.

That's all I recall.

yukonsally March 29 2006, 03:44:43 UTC

we had a program manager, the one who picked out the playlist.

rejoicingapathy March 29 2006, 03:46:43 UTC

Are you asking, like, what excuse someone would have to be in the radio station?

I am totally unaffiliated with our school radio station, but I've occasionally sat around there for no reason at all. Sometimes I would be eating someone else's food who was doing a show. Or I would be listening to the manager bitch. Or whatever.

Our station has a door code--only people with shows or somehow officially affiliated has a code, and they're different for all people. That just means that you have to let someone from the station to let you in, though, and it's probably irrelevant if this isn't taking place in present time or a school that doesn't care/have funds.

gal_montag March 29 2006, 03:56:16 UTC

Running the board if there isn't a second person to do that.

cheshire23 March 29 2006, 04:03:37 UTC

I was a college station DJ from 1993-1997. Things might be different now.

Other than just sneaking a random buddy into the place, which I did on occasion, here's a possible list of reasons:

- If it's a late shift, and especially if the DJ is female, calling someone to be in the otherwise deserted building and/or to walk the DJ home after the shift isn't that unheard-of. Perhaps vaguely technically against the rules (and somewhat less frowned upon if the person in the station's another DJ) but something that probably won't be closely questioned. Being all alone in the building at 2 AM (when the bars close) on a weekend night can be a bit creepy, and knowing someone else is there is comforting under those circumstances ( ... )