December 2010
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Matt Van Essen: Imaging Producer at Astral Calgary
I have always wanted to get a broader look at the business here on the blog. However, I have focused a lot on on-air talent. Luckily, again through the magic of twitter, I connected with Matt Van Essen. How did it come about? Basically, Matt worked with Ceara K, who contributed to the blog not to long ago, and so I thought it would be cool to follow the naturally forming web and see if Matt wanted...
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TheRadioIndustry.Com?!
With the step-by-step guide from a complete, but totally awesome stranger, some cool changes have been made to The Industry. No more tumblr.com. It’s time to get official. Although the old link still works, The Industry can now be read worldwide at:
www.theradioindustry.com
With that said there are some new addresses for you to make note of:
To contribute your story, advice or thoughts on...
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Sure Shot Round 4 Update
Well, well, well. It looks like another successful round of sure shots. If you haven’t heard the audio countdown from last week, click here then come back and read this update, because I don’t want to brag (okay maybe a bit), but I caught one of the tracks on air this afternoon. Which do you think it was?
David Guetta Ft. Rihanna - Who’s That Chick Flo Rida ft. Akon - Who Dat...
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Sure Shots Round 4
Click play above to hear the...
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Jonny Staub - Mid-Days on The Beat 94.5
Well, ask and you shall receive! After posting Ceara K’s story on the weekend where she mentioned her friend/ex co-host Jonny Staub I sent out a little tweet to let him know that he was practically famous online (not that he isn’t well known already). He responded and said he would write up his story. How about that? Two contributions in one week, been awhile since that has happened!...
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Ceara K. Afternoon Drive - 107.3 Kool FM
As we all know this blog started with me chronicling my journey in and through the radio industry. However, if you flip through some of the previous advice here, I’m clearly in the “paying my dues” phase… which doesn’t make for great reading. But what I always like to read/share are other peoples stories on how they got to where they are and I got another one for...