How to learn the business of radio fastest way

March 10, 2012 - PRLog -- Radio jobs and talent website Radio Talent has launched what it describes as the fastest way to learn the business of radio in a new series of podcasts on the website.

Narrated by one of the most notable voice-overs in the UK Howard Ritchie, the podcasts are designed to offer professionals and newcomers insights into the success principals of radio.

Covering subjects such as “How to get to Radio 1” or “How to be a voice over” the website interviews the industry’s decision makers in a bid to find the keys to successful Jobs in radio.

Radio Talent is a website that manages professional and new talent and exposes them publicly by offering users pages upon which they can display their unique skills. The site claims to have generate more than £3m in wages for its members and saved hundreds of thousands in recruitment costs.

Although the website charges for some of what they regard as “premium podcasts” they claim that the information shared in many cases is highly proprietary and thus has intrinsic value.

“We are saving people months and sometimes years, by finding the people they most want to meet in their careers and asking valuable questions on their behalf. From asking a voiceover how to set up a home voice over studio to asking a talent scout at Radio 1 what Radio 1 looks for in its talent, we are solving a problem that many of our founders have encountered developing their careers”

The website recently launched 25 hour long podcasts and interviewed Luis Clarke the Group Programme Director of Heart, John Simons, the Group Progamme Director of GMG radio, Chris Nicoll head of Capital FM production and several high profile decision makers around the industry. An excerpt from their website states

“Studying the characters of the highest profile people in radio, will not only give you something to talk about, should you wish to contact them, but more importantly provide a profound knowledge which will save you months or years.

If you want to be someone, do something, or have something, the first law is to study those that are already doing it, being it, or having it.”

There are also a number of free radio training podcasts, which give listeners an insight into various jobs and also two, which focus primarily on radio jobs at the BBC. These illustrate mindsets required for these types of broadcasting jobs but also have a number of valuable tangible tips for people heading in this direction.

Journalists can benefit from what the website claims to be a how-to for broadcast journalists, in the podcast with Peter Stewart, the author of several books on the subject. And presenters get several episodes teaching them what to put on demos and how to get jobs on radio stations such as Heart and Capital.

Radio Talent’s main purpose was to create a cost effective background and radio-training course for both experienced and less experienced media folk, to provide them with the maximum exclusive information with minimal cost. Unlike most radio schools the course allows students keen on success to dip their toe into radio training to help them understand the directions to go in.

The podcasts are certainly a varied and unique way of delivering money making advice and saving those serious about doing a little more to help themselves make waves in the radio industry.

Contact info:
Nicky Cresdene
help@radiotalent.co.uk
http://www.radiotalent.co.uk/radio-school