Made my big debut this week as a radio producer-- for the radio class I'm taking, we produce a weekly magazine-style radio show for the college radio station, KALX. (You can hear the shows at northgateradio.com). We rotate through the various roles over the course of the semester-- reporter, anchor, producer, etc. This week I was producer, and the theme I chose was "underground." I suppose it goes without saying that I found a way to incorporate the song "Down Under" by Men At Work.
We had a story about worm poop, one about being an undocumented immigrant campus, one about digging tunnels in California, one about pirate radio, and one about this weird city north of San Francisco that consists primarily of cemeteries. The content of the show was pretty interesting.
Sadly, the mechanics of the show were a total nightmare. While on air, we essentially had every imaginable technical difficulty. First, we played the wrong CD, then we left the mics on during the prerecorded news, broadcasting our real-time conversation underneath it, then somehow the CD player, which had all of the various stories burned onto it, was set to "shuffle," which led us to broadcast dead air for a shocking 60 seconds, and then for an additional 60 seconds, the two anchors chatted awkwardly to cover up the silence. Whew. Before 10am that day, I had used up my allotment of adrenalin for the week. Sheesh. Anyway, go to the website if you want to hear the results... we were able to edit out much of the pandemonium.
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Hello!! I stumbled across an email containing a link to your blog as I was sorting through them and thought I'd check to see if it was still going. It is indeed!! Sounds like you've had an, um, eventful, time at grad school. Sound like you're learning a lot though, even if it's not always been plain sailing. Anyway, just thought I'd drop in and say "HI!!" Good luck with everything, Claire x
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