Evaluation-Palm FM Part 2

Show: Saturday Sport 
Presenter: Graham Russell 
Date: 30th Jan 2010 
Duration: 5 hours (1pm-6pm

I arrived at 12pm as I did last week and still I found myself working alone without the radio technician who was meant to show us how everything works, but he didn't turn up for work again. I asked this to the main presenter, as to why this was and he said everyone who works at Palm FM apart from himself, works voluntary and so if you don't turn up then nobody can say anything about it. I think this brought my expectations of this particular radio station down, as it seemed very laid back. Security was also to a poor standard. 

The presenter greeted me as usual and sat me down at the computer to start the importation of the radio clips process. He quickly ran over how the equipment works and what I was required to do during the program was being aired to the public, so that it refreshed my mind which I was grateful for. This included using part of a recording format in the studio. When a loud tone was heard, it meant that a live reporter was coming through to the radio station to share news, of which would be aired. Thus I had to record all the different reporters that would be coming through on the radio signal, reporting from all the football and rugby matches. After I recorded them via the wav file editor, the clip then had to be cut and edited. For this I had to cut out and remove via the wav editor, any noise's that were not needed. During this process today, I found that I was gaining in confidence using the computer editing software. 

 I also continued to make notes of any goals or fouls during the matches, via the internet, and once a goal or foul took place I had to make a note of the important information and then, when the "on air" light was off, I had to run into the main studio and pass the message onto the presenter so he could talk about the matches in more depth, before new reports came through, as I had done the previous week. 

Did I meet my aims and objectives?

My main aims and objectives for this work-learning placement were to, be as professional as I was able, work to deadlines, listen and learn from other professionals and then implement what they do in their work. I also wanted to learn more about how to produce a radio station and I found it highly interesting to learn about what equipment is used and how it is used. 

Overall I believe that I did achive all my aims and objectives. The only down side I had was that I never got to see how the official producers of the radio show “Saturday sport”. This was mainly due to the fact the the producer who was meant to train us up, didn’t turn up that morning for work. So I had to literally produce, record, save and import the live reports of the matches, so that the presenter would have material ready for his live show. Without my input there would have been no live reports from any of the live matches. I was slightly shocked about the fact I was able to complete such tasks and found my confidence levels rise after this project took place. The presenter also asked me to come back again to help out.