Re: OT: What dictates when you're ready for a major market?
> > This has gotten my curiosity. What is it that dictates
> > someone is ready for a major market from a smaller market?
>
> > When I see a post like this, I can't help to wonder if is
> it
> > really learning/practicing the skills that makes one
> ready,
> > or is it just seniority, where there is a magical age that
>
> > suddenly you're deemed ready (A rite of broadcasterhood)?
>
> I used to have an answer for that. Now, it seems all you
> have to do to get to a major market is get hired there. I
> see some very young people in major markets. It, in my mind
> is always better to start in a small market, since a lot of
> times you are a one man band and will learn things that will
> help you all through your career.
>
I totally concur. Starting in a smaller market(like waco/temple/killeen, B/CS or tyler), you run your own show. You usually create your own beat,follow leads,work with the photogs directly and 9 times out of 10, cut your own tape. Also, you learn people skills in dealing with your fellow on and off air staff. Whats happened is alot of the trust fund babies who've gone to SMU or UT have danced around the smaller markets due to "Who They Know", not "What They Know" and the larger markets (D/FW for example) are not the better off.