Today is/was a radio day...

Today is/was a radio day...

Were going live in 3... 2... 1... Go! Sound! Sound!! It looked it was going to be a long sit but the six hours went quit fast, I was nervous during these six hours, lol. No wonder cause the main techician putted me behind the mixer. I had to take care of two computer screens, one mixer, one phone, and I had to keep an eye on the discjokckey, and aswell communicate with him. I thought the main technician would do all this today and I had to help him here and there, I still needed to learn things. But, the technician putted me on his thrown, eek? Yeah. eek!! Having a huge microphone infront of me and the huge mixer with all the buttons and little lamps wasn't helping me much. 

There were a few mistakes from my side but that's pretty normal for a first timer like me, further I must say for a first timer it went pretty good. The program we made has alot of latest news, reports and live intervieuws, this program isn't just a radioprogram with loads of music. Like playing a record, telling a little story and then a record again. That's much easier, but on this program everything has to be ready and set to start, that's where the technician is for. Mostly the technicians and dj's have a script here, that's always handy. The few mistakes I made were not that a problem, but I surely disliked it. 

Here I sat for six hours, nerve wrecking but in the end it was surely worth it. I surely didn't do bad for a first timer.

The start tune was finnished then I had to open the michrophone from the discjokey so he could start with a few messages, but I forgot. Another thing was that I started a record after the discjocky gave a sign but there was no sound, wich I forgot aswell. I had to pay attention on so many things, there are so many handelings I had to do. That button has to be pushed, in the same time I will have to pay attention on the computer screen and wait for a sign from the discjockey, I really had to think ahead. I asked after every intervieuw or song what comes next, lol, I wanted to be sure that I wouldn't make the same mistakes again. In these six hour of radio I mostly thought, "No, this is not my thing, I will finnish this afternoon, then I'll stop." 


I didn't feel for sitting with nerves, worries or stress for so many hours, just to get a nice perect program. It's a vollunteer's job, it's suposse to be fun without being worried or having stress, lol. But then again, I didn't do bad, maybe it will go better and I will get the hang of it when I do it more often. I don't know, I didn't mention anything about quiting it. I said to them after our show that we will mail each other, I'm sure they will mail me in the comming days for a next show the next week. I'm still going for it, and will see how it goes. I did a little bit of radio work before, and I was a so called hobby discjockey before. But this is so much different on so many levels. 

On this picture you see a house discjockey, he playes dance record after dance record, beat after beat. The crowd loves it!

As a hobby discjockey I played dance record after dance record, there was no talking between the records, just a long mix of dance records. The other radio work I did was aswell a local radio station, but then in Nijverdal, my old hometown. There I didn't do the technic and I didn't play records, I organized and labeled new songs what came in. I always was a fan of music or doing something in the music, I learned alot of timing in the music, I know how to get a radio program full, or make a script for the program. You have to make a nice filling program for the listener, so that the listener is thinking, 'Nice, I'm going to sit for this.' Anyway, while I'm writing about music and radio I actually wanna go back, back to where I was this afternoon.  


Yeah, I have a good feeling about this, although the nerves and a little bit of stress while doing the job are there too (still).