So, I've been thinking ... and it's time for one of those "behind the scenes" blogs about what goes on here at TalkRadioX.
Despite the rumors you might have heard, these shows we have don't get put together by elfin' magic. People work hard -- every day -- to produce what you hear.
I'm a host. I'm a twice-a-week-in-one-day host. (Oh, yeah, if you're not listening to Happy Hour at 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Sundays, you should be.) That's not to say I don't work during the week on putting things together, but the bulk of my show prep comes Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Sometimes, I wonder how you daily guys do it. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I do get to see how one daily show gets put together, and there are times it still amazes me how it all comes together.
Because I'm curious and because I think it would be entertaining -- what do you do to prepare? Do you push it to the last minute or are you a planner? What did you find works the best?
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Fortunately I have set things on certain days to make my life easier. The box office report, DVD list, etc. That's easy enough.
For the rest of the hour I will look up stuff about an hour ahead of time. There are about seven different sites I go to on a daily basis for topics. I usually have articles pasted on a Word document that I read off of. Very exciting.
I must be the only person who doesn't paste into Word. I just read the tabs. I think I'm gonna have to get on this "Word" bandwagon.
I do show prep daily at various times throughout the day. We'll check for listener emails up to the time we hit air and even during the show. The other things we do nightly, this day in history, news, etc. I look up about 2-3 hours before air. Other special things for specific shows, such as writing a Diagnosis for the topic show on Saturday, I do when the spirit moves me, which can sometimes be as late as a half hour before the show. And of course Deano looks up the trivia questions to throw at me and T, and T handles his chillin with T segment by tapping into his encyclopedic knowledge of the hip hop world. :)
I don't do anything but show up. Sometimes I do come up with stuff to talk about, but then jerky Antubert comes along and says, "Oh yeah, I've already talked about that on The Live Test Show" THANKS ANTUBERT!
It seems that sometimes the less I know, the better sidekick I am. It lets me be fresh to hear about the crap that Radio Dan Delgado researches, just like the audience, and then I can respond truthfully. Also, it lets me mess stuff up, which is only a schtick! REALLY! I think...I hope?
I only do a Weekly show but I still find something for the show everyday, Things i see online about certain tv shows or maybe a certain clip that I would like to play or sample. Thank god for youtube.
When I did the lunchtime show I learned alot and my hats off to the daily guys, I got overwhelmed because i went in with wide eyes and had alot of ideas and basically tired myself of it fast.
My enthusiam and inspiration will build again. I will try it again.
The Weekly show has so much prep it's pretty sad actually I edit together a long intro each week, making sound drops etc BUT I love doing it.
You're right, J. I'm weekly and I still get overwhelmed at the amount of work that goes into it sometimes. My hat's definitely off to the daily guys, too!
I have a daily show (M-Th) and the weekly Saturday show. Plus I do the Sunday E-Wrestling show. The daily show is an hour and that's pretty easy to prep for. Something always pisses me off and makes a topic. A letter, an article, a link sent. So it's easy to just present the topic and give my views.
The weekly Bad Side show takes the most work. I usually use letters as the topics and work up some responses if I get the letter mid week or wing it if I get on air.
The E-Wrestling show bascially runs itself. I get news from the fella's and just lay it out the best way I can and report the news.
As far as interviews, it's just checking mail daily, bending to certain wills ::grins:: and setting up dates and topics for the guests.
Pretty much it.
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