Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show

Peter Stewart

A&C Black, May 29, 2010 - Performing Arts - 416 pages

This is a practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard. Packed with day-to-day advice that captures the essence and buzz of live broadcasting; from preparing your show before it goes out, last minute changes to running orders, deciding what to drop in over a track, how to sell a feature or promote a program, setting up competitions, thinking fast in a phone in - this book will help you do all that and more. It covers network and commercial, music and talk radio skills and is particularly suited to the independent local or community radio. It features advice from professionals, covers industry-wide best practice with enough 'need-to-know' technical information to get you up and running. This edition has been updated throughout and now links to a YouTube channel where readers can hear examples of the work. One of the few books we'd recommend BBC Training.

Contents

• OFF AIR: 1
• PRE PRODUCTION: 59
• INSIDE THE STUDIO: 149
• GOING LIVE: 183
• GETTING IN: 341
• THE BACK ANNO: 361
• GLOSSARY: 371
• INDEX: 386

About the author

Peter Stewart is an award-winning broadcaster who has for many years been a trainer at BBC Training and Development, acts as a judge for the New York International Radio Awards and the Sony Radio Academy Awards is co-author of Essential Radio Journalism, columnist for The Radio Magazine and has over 15 years of practical experience in radio broadcasting.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show; Methuen Drama Modern Plays; Volume 1 of Professional Media Practice
• Author: Peter Stewart
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: A&C Black, 2010
• ISBN: 1408121794, 9781408121795
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Radio / General