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High School Graduation On The Radio

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

This year our small community will have 3 or 4 high school graduates (i forget the exact #) and we'll broadcast it live on the radio. Last year we had none and the year before, our ENTIRE 7 school district had 1 high school graduate, and he was in my community and a part time employee of the station at that time.

We'll have it on the radio May 8th at 6pm local time and streaming www.kskopublicradio.com if anyone cares to listen
 
During my 10 years working full-time for Jerrell Shepherd's Bethany MO station, we did not usually air graduations live, but we taped a bunch. One day would have seven or eight schools with ceremonies at the same time, and it was all I could do to equip bodies with cassette machines, mics, stands, and cords. We worked with the school in town to have a balanced line-level XLR output of the new gym sound system available at our broadcast location, which was a godsend.
 
Thanks for doing your part to bring community radio to those who need it, Paul. Our HS graduations are at the Yakima Sundome, streamed on NFHS (so, subscription-only) and a crew of teenagers from the technical skills center does all the work, including operating the cameras. But this fall, I move to a small town in ID where they graduate 10-15 kids a year instead of 300+. I doubt they have a rockstar venue (probably their gym instead) and I doubt they have a rockstar multi-camera crew that streams it either. But that's OK. It's a small community and everyone comes together to celebrate them!

One year pre-pandemic, Thorp (WA) near Ellensburg, a very small farming town, had a grand total of 1 graduate. I'd like to know what that ceremony looked like!
 
crainbebo said:
Thanks for doing your part to bring community radio to those who need it, Paul. Our HS graduations are at the Yakima Sundome, streamed on NFHS (so, subscription-only) and a crew of teenagers from the technical skills center does all the work, including operating the cameras. But this fall, I move to a small town in ID where they graduate 10-15 kids a year instead of 300+. I doubt they have a rockstar venue (probably their gym instead) and I doubt they have a rockstar multi-camera crew that streams it either. But that's OK. It's a small community and everyone comes together to celebrate them!

One year pre-pandemic, Thorp (WA) near Ellensburg, a very small farming town, had a grand total of 1 graduate. I'd like to know what that ceremony looked like!
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We had 1 student graduate last year... i got the ceremony on the air .. zoomed over to the school gym 1/2 mile away and went up on stage, as the graduate asked me to speak, since i was his boss.. he was my employee for 9 months.

Thgat was 1 graduate across the entire district of 7 brick n mortar schools and a distancing learning course with like 300 students total.
 
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