I'm a DJ

Yep I'm a "weekend DJ" on Kiss. I had my first live shifts yesterday and today.

Amy Dalbon called me and said I sounded awesome, thanks amy love you ! and Linz too!

It was a little scary (it would have been bad to slip up and say "titan radio" hahaha!) but I think I sounded pretty good. I brought up "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" at one point to see if people liked it, and man did the phones ring off the hook! Too bad our machine isn't working right so I couldn't really try to get any on the air. Maybe next time...

So that was my bright spot, to make up for the fact that our machines have been messed up and Club Kiss made my life hell (friday, saturday and sunday nights, blah!)

'til next time....

kqv

wahoo i navigated my way thru the heart of pgh and didn't even come close to getting lost! I faced the evils of a parking garage and crossing a busy street, finding a station in a huge building, and passing an "interview" that wasnt really an interview! What a day! and all before noon!

As you can possibly tell, I had my meeting with Frank at KQV yesterday. It was interesting, and sort of a test, which was interesting considering I'm a little out of practice. We talked awhile, then he gave me some press releases and articles to write up a few readers. Then he had me "produce" the newscast and record it. On a TAPE! Can you believe they still use tapes and carts? Wow. He said they have cool edit but they are very slowly taking baby steps toward becoming digital. That was crazy.

Basically he told me I'm a little young and I need to know more about "business" and "politics" and such. Eh, that's okay. He's keeping my stuff on file, said they haven't hired anyone new in about 3 years (they have a low turnover rate, that's good). They do long format newscasts, like half an hour at a time, which I'm not sure I could get into anyway. But they do have "writers" and "editors" which would be a great place to start in the news world.

It's summer!

Right now I'm just tired! I had to visit home to empty out my room and store it at my grandmas so my sister has a room (that's what happens when 7 people live in a house thats not quite big enough!)

Anyway, as for things at 96.1 KISS right now.... I started my "DJ" role, with some wonderful 2-6 am voicetracked shifts. Mainly I board op. I will be board opping the Destiny's Child concert on July 20! I have also spent some time as a morning traffic producer, and also with the Kiss Morning News blurb.

My hours for the next month are not too shabby, so that helps, but I'm still looking for a second job.

I got a phone call today from Frank Gottlieb, news director at KQV, whom Marshall from WBT referred me too, saying that he didn't have any openings right now but that he would like to meet with me anyway. So I have to set that up, and learn how to get to that part of Pittsburgh...

Working at Kiss has been interesting, to learn new things and all, but sometimes its a real pain in the butt when they schedule me to do things that I haven't done before/don't know what I'm supposed to do! Hopefully people aren't getting annoyed with my incessant questions....

I guess that's about all that's new with me right now!