TGIF! This weekend is much needed. I got a text early morning on Wednesday asking what I was doing this weekend and that thus will have me going up to Huntsville with Charlie to see Jimmy, Kevin, Jake and the rest of the gang. I am super excited.
First though I would be going in at noon to complete the week at Sports Radio 610. I did not know what to expect today with the Astros going on the road starting today for all of next week.
I get in and Robert is talking with Shaun and Kyle about a show they did the past Friday when they filled in for Adam on the Night Shift. I sit in on their conversation and hear some really good points that Robert makes about how to improve the quality of their show. Including, but not limited to: how to better relay the topic of conversation, teasing things in the next segment, and starting a segment with a topic that will lead to a interview with someone. Also, he talked about how to spark phone calls and how to better give out the phone number.
Good stuff. After their meeting, he talked with me a few minutes then gave me the assignment. He wanted me to create a sports flash. Basically a 45 second sports flash with 2 to 3 stories in it and a sound bite that would normally play on CNN 650AM. This would be practice for me.
So I begin to write it up. I start with a story about the Lakers, then I go with something about the Astros, then finish with the Stanley Cup Game 7. Before I record it, I talk to Laura about finishing the internship page.
She asks me if I have everything and once I inform her that I do, she helped me get set up on the computer and I finished working on the pages. I completed all the images and putting the information on the needed sites.
I am ready to go live with the website so I go look for her. I go back in the production room where Robert asks me if I have recorded my flash yet. I read over my script real quick and I record it while he is doing one himself.
I edit it and he listens to it. He goes over it with me and tells me what I did well/need to improve. It sounded good, but I did mess up in some obvious spots and could have done a lot better. With more practice though. I hope to do more in the next week or so.
As Robert and I are going over my sports flash, two guys come into the studio where they are doing the show and they are carrying bags with Morton's Steakhouse on the side. They start laying out containers of steak, salad, cake, and other delicious looking items out on the desk. Food to the amount I am sure a family of 5 could dine and would cost $150-200. As the guys go to break for the bottom of the hour, they go grab themselves some good food and it looked great. As Robert went in there for the :40 flash, he invited me in there with him and I helped myself to a plate of Morton's. I got a few slices of beef and a crab cake. Amazing.
I had never had Morton's before, but the steak, though a little on the cool side, was top notch.
As I head out with Laura, I ask her if we can put the page live. She goes with me back to the desk I have been working at and we put everything up. She complements me on how I did and as I walk out, she asks if I would want to come on the air and promote the page I just created. I was not even thinking of anything like that. It took me by total surprise.
I knew not everyone gets a chance to sit in studio at a major market radio station to talk on the air, much less be the center of attention for a given amount of time, so I was not going to turn this opportunity down.
Laura and I went to see Robert and right before the 5:20 flash, we looked at the website to see the page and then went into the studio. I listened into Robert's flash and then he introduced me at the end of the flash. I talked for a few minutes with him and Laura. It was really fun.
I hope to have the audio clip from my time on the air up on here really soon.
Go to www.sportsradio610.com and look for the 'Meet the Interns' link.
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