How to Start a Career in Broadcasting
Broadcasting seems to be an extremely glamorous career--being on the air every day delivering information to the public. If you believe you have what it takes to be the next Ted Koppel, you have to know where to start. Just understand that the path may not be as exciting as you may think.
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Instructions
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Training and Preparing
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Learn how to write. You will almost certainly have to write your own reports most of the time.
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Know the subjects you plan to be a broadcaster for. Whether it's politics, sports or celebrity gossip, you need to know every little thing about your field.
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Develop communication skills. You need to be an articulate, clear speaker. What's more, you need to personable so people will want to listen and talk to you.
Getting the Jobs
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Start as soon as possible. If there's a student broadcast station in college or even grade school, start working there. This is one career field where experience means much more than education.
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Get an internship at a radio or TV station. It won't make much money, if any, but it's the way to start. When applying, find out exactly who hires the interns and present all the experience and credentials you have.
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Apply to every job you can find and take whatever is offered. Be prepared to start a career in a smaller city working the weekday night shift.
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Take the opportunity when it comes, When the station needs a last second fill-in on the broadcast, you need to be there. Get on the microphone and prepare to impress people.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't be afraid of rejection. You only need that one big break. And remember, the guy at the small radio station that turned you down may not know what he's doing.
Forget about this being a 9 to 5 career. Expect lots of night and weekend work and forget about holidays.
Be yourself on the air. Trying to impersonate Ted Koppel or Walter Cronkite won't work.
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great..
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oksayhi
Sep 21, 2008
It appears to me that this posting is geared towards a college graduate or someone who is entering or leaving college at a very young age. I guess ninety percent of Americans over the age of thirty are either now senior citizens or nor longer desired in the work force. Its all about money, mostly greed from our own government to even the black operations including this planned economic slow down they call it. These are topics I want to talk about on air, to expose many truths out there. But, I must be twenty out of high school and but in college according to over what ninety percent of what this site and other folks are saying. -
oksayhi
Sep 21, 2008
It appears to me that this posting is geared towards a college graduate or someone who is entering or leaving college at a very young age. I guess ninety percent of Americans over the age of thirty are either now senior citizens or nor longer desired in the work force. Its all about money, mostly greed from our own government to even the black operations including this planned economic slow down they call it. These are topics I want to talk about on air, to expose many truths out there. But, I must be twenty out of high school and but in college according to over what ninety percent of what this site and other folks are saying.
