Your alternative tasks for college radio

[calieber]

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.

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[into_the_sun]

In addition to the positions posted previously, our station has people (volunteers) that run around and shelve cds. There are also people who listen to the cds and catagorize them or rate them.

[wineandwenches]

Most obvious answer is bringing someone food.

We had "trainee" DJs who did not have on-air shifts but functioned like interns.

[writing_minutia]

At my school (and the one my friend went to after graduating- she went into radio and works in the radio station at the other school too) students have every single job- except I think they just hired an alumni (who worked at the station as a student then hired permanently as a graduate) as a station manager, just to have a consistent person as everyone moves in and out, graduating etc.

Name a job, and a student serves it.

[summerborn]

I was a radio DJ at my school, which was very very small. There was only room in the studio for the DJ and maybe a friend (or two if you were all very close). But *anyone* could be a DJ and have their own show for an hour or two. There was a small group of students -- I think three -- who were in charge of the station, and coordinated things with the staff, and assigned playlists, and designed the t-shirts and things.

At my school, no one was paid for any of it, there was no advertising, and you couldn't actually pick up the station on a radio, only on a certain TV station and only while on campus. It's going to vary by the size of your school, obviously.

[backstgartist]

If you've got a very popular college radio station you're answering phones, getting pledges, scheduling visits, managing promontions, etc