College radio DJ's should talk rarely.

[Fuzz]

I listen to WSOU, Seton Hall's radio station, often while in the car because the music is so much better than any other radio station in the area. But when the DJ's try shtick or a little back and forth, like this morning, it's painful to listen to. I know their not professionals and need to work on it, but damn! Just play the music we can't hear anywhere else!

Ok, rant off. :D

[billyskank]

1. Gah

BBC Radio 1 is the absolute worst. Their presenters have such inflated egos. They always assume that we are interested in hearing them talk, even though Radio 1 was supposed to be a music station. They babble for minutes at a time between songs, and when they play something they have a tendency to talk over it for the first minute and fade it out a minute before the end. The only mitigating factor is that the music they tend to play is so intolerably mediocre that we aren't missing much. Ever since John Peel died there has been nothing on Radio 1 for any discriminating listener.

[mainegreen]

2. Hell yeah. nt

[MadHound]

3. Yeah, but prospective DJs gotta practice their patter sometime.

I worked college radio for a few years, and it was a blast. I was fortunate enough to get the gig back when punk was just starting to emerge, and we rode that wave for as long as we could.

But we were at least trying to stay professional. All of our newbies started out on the graveyard shifts, where they could stutter and stammer their babble until they got it right. Morning and evening drive times were for the best of the lot, with various other day and evening shifts being doled out to others. If made for pretty tight programming and pretty good radio. Good enough that KCOU was the number one college radio station in the country, number two in the world, and the reason that Arbitron finally started collecting data on college stations, we were taking up a huge chunk of the audience:evilgrin:

But hey, even though you've got to put up with bad patter, you get to listen to great music, and if it's like most college stations, you do so commercial free:shrug: