Radio Board Op 101 

Those were beautiful days unlike these!

Ive got some carts running here in New Zealand and the quality of the audio is incredible, they sound amazing. I thought about recording some new music onto the carts??

Did you get the job? :)

@@australianvoiceover nah It was several people there & a few people ahead of me. & they hired 2 people for the nite gig. Right on the spot

Ah, the "crash" rules. I was doing a newscast and, having looked at the program log, kept going through the spot break with the engineers making all kids of gestures at me for ignoring them. After I was done I was asked, "What the Hell are you doing? Why didn't you take the spot break?" I replied by asking, "Who was the spot for?" The answer was the movie, "Invasion of The Body Snatchers." The lead story was John Wayne Gacy.

@@dickginkowski6071 Heheh the news is a very dynamic program for sure

Sure, sometimes the host have me record things or find audio clips for them during a show break. A lot of this job is about timing and being quick with the software we work with. I think its pretty fun!

Yes, Adrian…all equipment needs specialist maintenance and this one is no exception. That's why I devoted myself to it on a large scale, during the time I spent working at radio stations. And that's also why I have a lot of broadcast equipment in my personal collection, all of it working properly. Health to you, with wishes for a good 2023!

Unfortunately they don't take board management very seriously here anymore. I have heard that they used to have someone come in quarterly to deep clean/replace buttons if needed but they just don't do that anymore. Probably a cost cut kind of thing :/ This means that some of the buttons require more pressure than others to actually fire their assigned function.

Typical of iHeart, it's been published in industry blogs for the past few years about how they have been reducing everyone on staff by the thousands. Many stations don't have DJ's now and they have had plans on replacing mangement positions with AI. Imagine if you will, back as recently as in the 90's, before consolidation, each station had a DJ doing a 4 hour shift and there would be different jocks on the weekend as well, 6 during the week and maybe up to 6 on the weekend, though some stations would use pre-recorded programs or national specialty shows to fill in some of that airtime (stations always try to cheap out on things, nothing has changed there). There would be someone working production, a traffic director (spot scheduling for those who don't know), a music director, Program director, Public Affairs Director, a Technical Director and sometimes a Chief Engineer (if the station was large enough) The sales department would consist of a few people, the Station Manager, business manager and even more depending on the size of the station. Since then conslidation happened and the mega station ownership groups began buying everything up and making clusters. Eventually 5 stations would exist in a space about the same as what was once 1. DJ's would get spread out to other duties on other stations, in many markets, all the dj's were pooled and many dismissed as it was cheaper to have one jock work several stations than the 5 it used to be (maybe not at first, it took time for these reductions to happen), voice tracking came along and made staff reductions along the mega owners even more possible by having 1 jock in LA be able to record the spots for many stations in the chain and run them via computer. In each of the "Clusters" the need for each of the other positions (TD, PD, MD, Sales, Managers, ect.) went the same way. No longer was the station manager working with 1 station, they would be working the cluster, or even deeper they came up regional positions where 1 person worked for groups of clusters, same for the other titled jobs. The only exception usually is in sales, but that's because of the turnaround in those positions, there's always sales jibs open in radio. (BTW: I left out a ton here, but it does give a general idea, and of course iHeart is the most notorious for blood letting amongst it's stations, just do some searches, it's nasty)

Lol

What are your questions?

you know where can I study courses on line x board operator thanks!!

Assistant producer is sometimes interchangeable

Harris RMX digital

Harris RMX digital

@@radioxandra4410 Thanks a lot