Hello,
Essentially I am a rookie broadcaster who lucked into getting his own radio show. It's a long story but I have no real training or formal education in the world of radio and/or broadcasting. I am currently a part time host of a 2 hour a day talk radio show on an AM News talk station. Despite what some will say about AM being dead, we are actually doing really well and just built a brand new studio for our 5 station cluster.
Here is the advice I am looking for; I am wanting to make myself as marketable and valuable to the station I am currently working for. They are actually a pretty great company and take pretty good care of me. So I have been looking around online for degree programs or even just some courses that would teach me the basics of being a program director. Not that I want to take anyones job or anything like that, I just want to make sure that I can be a good team player for a good team and be able to step in when and/or where necessary, instead of having to say, "sorry, I don't know how to do that.
The problem is that I can't find anything that aren't prohibitively expensive general broadcasting degrees or just totally unrelated to the real world or the radio industry. I am hoping some of you may have ideas on where to find such information.
Essentially I am a rookie broadcaster who lucked into getting his own radio show. It's a long story but I have no real training or formal education in the world of radio and/or broadcasting. I am currently a part time host of a 2 hour a day talk radio show on an AM News talk station. Despite what some will say about AM being dead, we are actually doing really well and just built a brand new studio for our 5 station cluster.
Here is the advice I am looking for; I am wanting to make myself as marketable and valuable to the station I am currently working for. They are actually a pretty great company and take pretty good care of me. So I have been looking around online for degree programs or even just some courses that would teach me the basics of being a program director. Not that I want to take anyones job or anything like that, I just want to make sure that I can be a good team player for a good team and be able to step in when and/or where necessary, instead of having to say, "sorry, I don't know how to do that.
The problem is that I can't find anything that aren't prohibitively expensive general broadcasting degrees or just totally unrelated to the real world or the radio industry. I am hoping some of you may have ideas on where to find such information.