It wasn't long after I came in at 11am that I was sitting in studio 2, alongside Rob G and Laura Wood. The duo present Freshly Squeezed, the station's breakfast show, which runs weekdays from 6-10am. Rob explained to me that he comes in at 6am, but Laura gets to have a lie in and arrives at 7 o'clock. As a result, they pre-record a number of their links for the 6 o'clock hour. I observed them recording their links and programming them into Myriad, the software that they use. After that, I got to chat to Rob about his career in radio; how he got into the industry, how he juggles the two shows he presents (breakfast on East Coast FM and weekends on FM104) and some other geeky questions that I had.
Next, It was to Rob Diggins. He is the production director of the station. His role is to produce all of the advertisements that are broadcast on air and to create jingles/imaging. We observed Mark Robinson, the Programme Director at the station, record a promo about an outside broadcast which East Coast are holding in Arklow. Mark is new to the station, only taking up the role two months ago. Yet he brings a wealth of experience to the team. The Aussie has worked at stations all around the world and presents a weekly podcast about sports. After he recorded his voice-over, Rob edited it. It was our task to choose a piece of music to be played with the voice-over. After much deliberation, we chose a light-rock track called 'half of double'. The promo was then put together and is currently on air at the station.
After lunch we returned to the gloomy reality of office life. It was my job to fold and envelope numerous invoices and statements of accounts for Sunshine 106.8, East Coast FM's sister station. A long and painstaking process, we finished with ten minutes to spare. Unfortunately, there was a catch. Sales manager Margaret told us that we had only done a fraction of the work that needed to be done!
Roll on tomorrow....
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