What is RJing?
Earlier Radio jocks were termed as Radio announcers but with the advent of FM’s And online radios the terms are fast changing.Radio jock entertains the listeners and guides them through various topics & information.It’s not necessary for an RJ to confine himself with certain genre of shows it can be a Film based, music based, an interactive one, based on social problems, humor, in fact any Topic, it can be on bun or bread....
Happy reading...
There are few things one must know
*Auditions!!: It’s the process of selecting a radio jock, it’s the initial and fist step except in the case of very senior RJs this is a mandate for all the RJs how wanted to enter this field.
What one asks in the audition depends on the station...Generally topic is given and one is asked to talk on it for few minutes say 2-5 minutes, or we can talk on any topic of our own interest. Many times one will be tested for his presence of mind by asking to go through mock/fake call.
*Script Links/Threads: The sentences or words that are spoken on air, rather framed sentences to carry the show are Links or threads
A good radio jock must also be a good script writer, script it the heart of the show good command on script is always handy and gives immense strength to conduct the show in a proper way. The general formats of the Links are Intro thread, Body, Conclusion thread.
*Intro: It must & should say about the radio which you are working for, your own Introduction, few lines about your show and its theme and finally a good joke or a quote to start with, and then a very good song to start the show after all its the songs which decides is the show going be a hit or flop.
*Body: The most important feature of a good radio jock is to carry the interest and see that the interest is sustained among the listeners, whatever the number of times he changes the stations finally he should be "wanting to listen your next thread" after the song/add you play for them, This is possible by a proper, Intricate threads [never leave the thread open let the "to be continued" format be there to attract the interest of listeners].
*Conclusion: End with a positive note or a joke or a social message and not forget to Play a good song again ,it’s important listeners must eagerly wait for ones next show, now it depends on one’s own talent and the topic of the day. It’s often found that a good conclusion gives a good start for the next show .
Two Types of Shows in general
There generally two kinds of Formats for programs or shows One is prerecorded and the other is Live!!!
*Pre-recorded: In these programs the show is recorded prior to telecast, generally calls are not taken in such shows, one good thing about such shows if we are wrong we can correct it immediately in the re-takes, we can talk till we get correct thread with number of retakes. Its something like dubbing Minus video. Generally mails or letters are read on these shows also almost many shows in Online radios are of this type.
*Live Shows: These are what we generally hear on Air, the so called interaction prog we take calls, SMSs etc, where we need to be very careful and of course cheerful.This is the best part of RJing we get instant reactions from listeners believe me once you get the taste of it you are not going to leave it forever!!!!
Generally We don’t go live directly ,before the call is on air we give some important feeds to the listeners like do not use/say certain things, if possible we also get to know his/her favorite song to pile up in the Software to play it on time.In one word we put the listener at ease and make him comfortable.
Competitions are also conducted many a times or Question & Answer SMS contests all the main core things are Gone live generally, Morning 7 - night 11 is the general time to go on air, again it depends on the station there are some stations who go Live on air till late say up to 1 O clock in night.Remaining time there are unmanned programs or prerecorded ones.
