Low Power FM For Dummies

Chapter 11

It’s Showtime! Developing Programming and Taking It Live

IN THIS CHAPTER

Planning what to put on air

Getting ready to go live

Keeping a watchful eye on timings and guests

Developing station etiquette

You made it! There’s been a lot of hard work so far, but this is what we all came here for — getting our voices on the FM dial! Radio is such a kind, beautiful medium. So generous, welcoming, and powerful! If you let it, it will support all of your endeavors and amplify all of your causes. Fly with radio to impossible places, get lost in the exotic sounds, then click your heels and wake up surrounded by family, snuggled up in the safety of home.

“I like to do radio shows,” Grammy nominee Esther Phillips told Professor Angela Davis in an interview for the Pacifica Network in 1977, “You don’t have the robot looking at you. I call the cameras robots, and they are right there on you.” It is true that in the absence of an invasive lens, working in radio can be a much more comfortable, private experience than appearing on television — even in front of thousands of potential listeners! ...