Here's What Our Radio Students Did in December 2008.   What Did You Do?

70% Of These Students Will Be Working
in Radio Broadcasting by June 2009.  WILL YOU?

Ranae Morse-Davis
RADIO STUDENT - ALBURQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

Ranae graduated from our apprentice program in Albuquerque Radio and then because of the connections she made while apprenticing, she just got her Dream Job, working for Radio Disney.

MY EVERYTHING...BLESSED BE!!  THOSE ARE THE ONLY WORTHY WORDS THAT I CAN FORM ..I DID IT! I RECEIVED MY DEGREE IN BROADCASTING (THANK YOU DB AND THE CREW OF CITADEL BROADCASTING CO. ALBQ. NM. MOM, JAZZ, GABE, MATTIE, FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO WERE SO STEADFAST AND CONFIDENT  THROUGH THIS VENTURE, AND RADIO CONNECTIONS(. IT WAS AN AMAZING JOURNEY AND NOW I HAVE MY DREAM JOB IN WHICH TO  LAUNCH MY CAREER WITH THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY.  HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT, WELL WISHES  BELIEF AND PRAYERS I WOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE STRENGTH, KNOWLEDGE OR JOY TO SHOW YOU ALL,  THIS IS THE REAL ME . LET ALONE ACHIEVE MY OWN PERSON DREAMS. I AM TRULY GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL AND THE LESSON EACH OF YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME

I LEARNED RADIO IN A REAL RADIO STATION AND MET THE PEOPLE THAT I NEEDED TO MEET. THEN WHEN I WAS OFFERED A JOB AT DISNEY, RADIO CONNECTION WROTE ME A LETTER OF RECCOMENDATION AND I WAS HIRED !!!  THIS PROGRAM AND MY HARD WORK GOT ME HIRED IN RADIO.

BLESSED IS THE BROKEN ROAD
THAT LEAD ME STRAIGHT TO YOU



I Learned a more extensive walk around the board this week. Now I'm mostly confident in being able to run the board alone, as well i also learned how to do traffic bulk feeds. I also watched one of the jocks record a couple commercial spots which was very fun to watch. I'M IN A REAL RADIO STATION learning !!!

This week they had me segue up the ryan seacrest show , and also put me in charge of doing his daily promos for next days shows. I am also being taught the mix board so I can be a board op for them. I also did a little work in their scheduling program that they use to know how and when to play a track.

This week they had me dub in a lot fillers for their internet stream. I got to meet a cassie the new singer from LIL Wayne's featured single official girl. I also learned a lot in Nexgen (Program that runs the stations music). And towards the end of the week I was just starting to get into voice tracking for their HD 2 channel "club phusion". RADIO CONNECTION got me here.


Kristen Kuyatt
RADIO STUDENT -  TAMPA, FLORIDA

The morning announcer asked me to be his creative assistant. I'm in because of this progam.



I met with my mentor at the Power 105.1 station in NYC from 5-6PM and was once again able to sit-in on and observe the last hour of his afternoon show.I was able to help him screen some calls and learned how to edit them to be played on the air. I also spoke to callers who were concert ticket contest winners and acted as my mentor's phone producer, explaining the rules and details of their prize and taking down all of the winner's personal information for the Promotions Department. Finally, I compared the advertisement logs to when they played/were supposed to play on air, and checked them off for accuracy. I'm actually in a real radio station learning from a professional.


I did commercial reading practice, and learned about recording equipment.  I'm getting about 10-12 hours a week in the station. My mentor is a real radio professional and I am learning directly from him.


I just did lesson 5, and man my mentor is great.  He's been showing me the ropes and has been introducing me to the big shots in the station.



Aaron Partin
RADIO STUDENT - FRESNO, CA.

My mentor hired me and sent me on my first remote broadcast last week. He said I did an amazing job.





I was talking to all the guys back stage at a football game we were broadcasting, learning from all aspects of radio. I was even put on the air for a couple of hours with my mentor. Now I am getting paid. I got hired where I trained. In a real radio station. Im in 50s. If I can do this, you can do this.




I have my own board chips, I'm on the air daily.  It's a great station and a great work station.  I'm in the door of a real radio station and working thanks to the Radio Connection program.


Micheal Fordham
RADIO CONNECTION STUDENT - WASHINGTON D.C.

I've been on air quite a bit, I was put on the air an hour after I met my mentor for a few minutes. It was cool. It's crazy how fast things happen in this business. No time for real school. This program puts you in the door. The rest is up to you.