RE: College radio talent

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

My main point was that other programs work much better
by compressing it into what you need to know.  And by
having smaller classes where the students do airtime
five days a week...  There was one in Boston that an
associate of mine from bangor went to.  This would
have been in the mid to late 80s so I am not sure if
it is still around.  He said that the cirriculum was
much more intensive and to the point.  



--- Jeremy Mixer <mixer@zoso.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Cooper Fox wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of communications colleges...  How do you
> > ladies and gentlemen feel about them?  75% of the
> ppl
> > in the business that I talk to about them swear up
> and
> > down that they are a waste of time...  Personally,
> I
> > feel that the program I went through would have
> > benefitted from a more jam it in your face
> > attittude(sp?).  I enjoyed every minute of my
> college
> > experience but felt that much of what i learned
> was
> > just a rehashing of things that i had been taught
> in
> > my time in the biz back in high school.
> 
> I think one thing that is important to keep in mind
> is that unlike you,
> most of us had no expirience prior to going to
> school. And there are a lot
> of things you really cannot learn until you are
> actually working in the
> biz. They can tell you, you can KNOW, but you can't
> UNDERSTAND until that
> happens. I knew a little about radio hen I started
> school at NESCom. For
> someone like you, all you were basically getting was
> credentials. But for
> someone like me, I wouldn;t have been as prepared to
> work. When I went to
> school, I went for one sole purpose....to learn how
> to do radio because I
> wanted to work at WBLM. I realized that while my
> goal is not unrealistic,
> I can't be picky. And somehow I still managed to get
> a job eventually at a
> station with a very similar format to WBLM, and I am
> very happy where I am
> now at WKIT. Sure I could have learned stuff while
> working, but I wouldn;t
> have been as prepared. Most, I'd sday 75% of the
> people in this market all
> went to the same school we both did. I personally
> feel I benefit
> (benefitted?) from ym education there, and it was
> them who helped me get
> my first job at WBZN, if it weren;t for them, I
> mgiht not be working in
> radio today. I had no expirience, and working ast
> the college station WHSN
> gave me expirience and air check tapes. I personally
> think my time there
> was money well spent, although I saw no need to go
> onto the 4 year program
> they opened up....2 years to learn what I needed and
> here I am.
> 
> Jeremy
> 


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