I am Kathleen Collins and you are listening to smooth jazz 99 FM. Hi I am Kathleen Collins and I am standing in front of KEZX radio station in Seattle Washington. This is where I come everyday to train to be a radio announcer. Lets go in and take a look okay. This is the hallway to the entrance of KEZX FM. It has some of the pictures of the musicians that have visited our station. Here we are in the sales area of KEZX Fm. This is where all the advertising is sold and without it a radio station literally couldn’t stay on the air. Sow lets go see what Dave’s doing in the production room. Hi we are in the production room now where Dave McKay the program director and my personal instructor is working on a project. My latest project, it’s a music project, we are in the process  of putting music on to hard drive through the computer. Kathleen and I have spent a lot of time in the production room over the past few months working on some of the very basic things in broadcasting from  recording on to reel to reel and then on to cart to recording on to now which is on to computer. And recording commercials onto computer and also we will be putting music on the computer too. So Kathleen has had great opportunity here to learn some of the very basic things up to some of the more sophisticated things in the broadcast business these days. She is a terrific student and I am absolutely delighted to have her in the radio station. Thanks Dave. You are welcome. And I am delighted to have him as my instructor. He has taught me everything. 

Kathleen Collins - Radio Connection Student    PLAY VIDEO

I highly recommend Radio Connection over traditional colleges and schools because it really gets you into the field as quickly as possible. You are working one on one someone who is already in the field and also the important thing for me is and I am still doing it right now, obviously I want to be full time again in radio, but right now it allows me to still have my job because we are able to be flexible about the hours you can, Sam and I worked together after work which worked out for both of us. I was still able to maintain my job, pay my rent and all that fun stuff while still pursuing the radio field. So it worked out in terms of the timing, able to do both and then ultimately get the gigs through at networking.

Mayan Levinson - Radio Connection Student   PLAY VIDEO



People who are running a radio station have to trust you. They have to know who you are. You have to have a face and a resume. Obviously getting into radio and getting into television is like getting with the NFL. People say how did you get to be a DJ? How did you get to be on TV? Or if you want to be a DJ you just throw out an application. Oh you are right. Yeah hello I want to play for the New York Giants. Now I got to go up to the Meadowlands, I am going to go to Brandenburg Arena. I am going to fill an application, play for the Giants. Yes I would like to be a defensive tackle. No it doesn’t work that way. Its connections man. Connections is the name of the game and Career Connections is what this is all about. 

Joe - Radio Connection Mentor    PLAY VIDEO

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