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Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'

Posted by WRXR 95.5 WMET on February 11, 2021, 2:29 pm

FaceBook sent me a sponsored ad after I looked for the Rock 95.5 FB page and here it is:
"Do you want a career in broadcasting & do what we do? Sign up for our Radio Class on March 4th where we will have industry experts giving you advice on how to break in to radio, sports broadcasting & you can win $500 to boost your career all from our friends at the Illinois Media School in Lombard."

Link: 'Win A Virtual Pass To Our Radio Class'

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Posted by WYTZZ95FM on February 11, 2021, 2:36 pm, in reply to "Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

Does this include all the poor souls that were laid off in the last 12 months? (smh)

Z

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Posted by PhilJSmith on February 11, 2021, 9:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

When you show up for the first class, the prof turns out to be a psychiatrist who takes each student aside to do a psych eval

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Posted by Nils Jannsen on February 12, 2021, 4:32 am, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

When you get to the seminar,you listen to 12 hours of the Warren Freiberg show.

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Posted by Usagi Yojimbo on February 12, 2021, 12:16 pm, in reply to "Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

Is that an accompanying class on future careers in horse and buggy production?

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Posted by Jeremy Andrews on February 12, 2021, 10:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

When I was in high school, figure 2004, we went on a field trip to visit a local technical college that had a student run cable radio station. The cable system had taken the station off by then. It used to be on 90.7 in Kenosha with the FM hookup system (The same one MTV used for Stereo)

Anyway the instructor (Who is a great guy, had a long career in local radio) gave our group a tour and told us everything they do and teach in the class. It was a whole bunch of stuff I already knew. He showed us Cool Edit-Audition and how some students used it to speed up their voices to sound like chipmunks.

He then went on to explain voice talent, automation, voice tracking, board ops, formats.

The class and the station unfortunately no longer exist. I think it would have been a great option for people who wanted to get into radio when it was still worth getting into.

Nowdays anything like this is a waste of time. It's who you know pretty much. Not what class you took.

Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'

Posted by Jeremy Andrews on February 12, 2021, 10:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

No idea why Tim Scott is in there. I honestly don't believe he listens to his own radio station. They continue to run promos telling people to "Ask alexa to play 97-3 The Game on Fox Sports Radio" and whenever I tell them such a thing is impossible they simply ignore me.

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Posted by WYTZZ95FM on February 13, 2021, 4:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

Jeremy, a lot of the iHeart radio stations which stream on iOT devices and other voice driven devices, do not come up correctly. One of them is the (not KOSF) 80s stream will almost never work on Google mini/home unless you word it really in a strange way (play 80s on iheart). I just tried it, it accepted it and then it told me there is an error and it won't play. The Freestyle stream would not come up until recently. Who knows what department is responsible for that. Person must have 99 other responsibilities besides that one.

Z

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Posted by Jeremy Andrews on February 13, 2021, 11:03 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

It’s simply a liner with a misread. The voice guy simply should have said “iHeartRadio” instead of “Fox Sports Radio” Been running for months. Easiest thing to do would be to pull it. Would take seconds.

The audio chain also has a constant and obnoxious click and pop noise. I alerted them to it “I don’t hear it and I listen more than anybody” was the response. They also tend to have a lot of automation crashes and dead air at times. Not that anybody is listening. Ratings average 0.6-0.7 (Highest book ever was this past Holiday month)

It’s all pretty much an example of the state of radio (particularly iHeart and Entercom) It’s in the toilet. Listen to WKKV next time you get the chance. The audio chain sounds like hot garbage and I’m not exaggerating. It’s frustrating and in many ways insulting. These companies are pretty much destroying decent radio stations.

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Posted by Jeremy Andrews on February 13, 2021, 11:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

And I’m sorry if I sound a little harsh, but I just kind of take it personally when stations like this are left to rot and sound like crap when a few simple fixes could take care of the problem. Quality control both programming and engineering should be front and center if these stations want to be taken seriously. The regional VPs or whatever micromanagement they have in place should be making sure these clusters are sounding the best they possibly can. The company as a whole should be.

Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'

Posted by Jeremy Andrews on February 13, 2021, 11:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Rock 95.5 sent me an ad 'Do you want a career in broadcasting?'"

By the way, the Chicago cluster sounds top notch (As it should)

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