After enjoying Good Friday off from my internship, I came into the station today with plenty of show prep and ready to get back to business. Or something like that. I am somehow suffering from a cold this week, and I feel completely scatter-brained.
Today went well. It started of with a political discussion between Dice and I during which Sarah mysteriously disappeared and Josh occasionally chuckled to himself. :) I did some "practice" stuff in the studio, and then we went over the breaks.
I am really getting much better at identifying where I could do better and how to tighten up a break. Dice even labeled one of them "great" today, so that was pretty cool. I am still slightly hindered by feeling self-conscious, but it really does get easier and easier every time I'm behind the mic. I have even felt confident enough to record a break on the fly based on the song we just played or the one coming up next. And it sounds like the debut of my own show is getting closer and closer, which is very exciting.
There are things I need to improve on. There will probably always be things I will hear played back that I wish I had done different. The real difference between now and when I first started my internship is that I am no longer scared and overwhelmed to start my show. The very thought used to keep me awake at night in the beginning. Now I am just...totally excited. And it just gets cooler and cooler every day.
I love being somewhere that is so interesting and so much fun I am unable to see it as work. I have truly-finally-found my niche. Here's hoping the FuseFM Staff agrees with me. :) :)
Radio Lingo of the Day: Once again, this isn't a term but instead some information. Radio stations classify themselves with all sorts of letters. For example, we are considered a CHR station (or Hot CHR, depending on who you ask). CHR simply stands for Contemporary Hit Radio. That is, we play the hits across all the various genres be it hip hop, rock, pop, etc. Asking this question today led to an interesting discussion with Dice and Josh. Dice commented that he sees us as more of a Hit CHR station since we play agressive, up-tempo music, and yet somehow "Christian" music has been classified as it's own genre, despite all the characteristics it may share with other genres. For example, Pillar is obviously a rock band. However, because they are signed with a "Christian" label, they are a "Christian" band. It's sad to me a little that groups are pigeon-holed for positive lyrics when the musicianship is clearly mainsteam-worthy. It's one of the reasons I love working at FuseFM so much--we clearly have a desire to change the way that people view positive hit radio.
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