Experience College radio: program director and general manager, WCMO, Marietta; WMRT, Marietta (OH); Announcer, WPAR; WIBZ, Parkersburg, WV; Announcer, newscaster, WMOA, Marietta and announcer, copywriter, newscaster at WVOS, Liberty, NY. Announcer, newscaster, WERA, Plainfield, NJ
Education/Credentials BA degree in Mass Media/Management (Radio?TV & Business) at Marietta College;
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Expert: Andy Blatt Date: 10/29/2007 Subject: training
Question what type of training do you need to be a broadcaster?
Answer It depends what type of job you want in broadcasting. If you want to go into sales and marketing, I would recommend a sales-training course or a college degree in sales or marketing and maybe interning during school; if you want to go into journalism, I would recommend journalism school. If you want to go into announcing, probably the quickest way is to sign up for one of the broadcasting schools like Specs Howard in Detroit or The Connecticut School of Broadcasting. These schools can train you, but the best thing they offer is career-counseling and job-placement after completing the course, but they are not cheap, but may be able to supply financing or loans. I worked in a couple of radio stations and the college stations during college which provided valuable experience, but it was only possible in a small market before Clear Channel and Cumulus and the others bought up all the stations. They can operate a half-dozen stations with one general manager, one sales manager and a handful of sales people and voice-track the non-peak hours in order save money by stretching personnel among all the owned stations. Things are more competitive now and there are fewer jobs than ever before. If you are good with technical stuff, you could train to be a transmitter maintenance engineer, and get involved that way, but it also long and very expensive to do it that way and you have to be technically inclined and motivated and have the aptitude.
