my 12th day...

I was the one to arrived first on the station so I got to start the monitoring...again it's Magic 89.9. They have lots of commercials and those were different from ours, so I enjoyed listing every commercials that they aired. Few hours later my co-ojt came then we switched. Ma'am Russel also asked us to go outside and buy some stuff.

My tenth and eleventh day at work...

Though there was a heavy rain yesterday, I was able to go to work. When I arrived at the station, we were off air, because of the problem with the transmitter. The technical staff were trying to fixed it that time. I proceed with my assigned task...monitoring Wave 88.3. By the time that we were out, the connection on air is still not working. I wasn't able to do this journal because of the brown out yesterday.

Today, I arrived at the station early. Ma'am Russel assigned another station for us to monitor...and this time it's on Magic 89.9. Sir Eric P., our station manager, explain to us that we're doing the monitoring not to compete with those stations, but just to compare what commercials we have and what we don't. Those assigned in sales will do something to contact those companies, which commercials were not airing on us, and encourage them to buy slots on our programs by giving them proposals...that's how it goes.

My 9th Day!

After my assigned time monitoring, my friend and I stayed at the production booth to learn something new from Sir Allen. We were never wrong, every minute we stayed at the production booth gave us additional knowledge especially on doing radio commercials. Sir Allen, with the permission of Ma'am Russel, also promised us to be part of JAMs event this friday! He also promised us to have a recording one of this days.

eight day!

Today, my first task was to screen callers. At first I was nervous, but later on I get used to it...then I started to enjoy talking with the callers... Scotty and Hillary had a pop quiz for a chance for the audience to win premier tickets but unfortunately no one got it right. After their segment I continued the radio monitoring which my friend started earlier. Then again, we were asked to add friends online in JAM's account. We had our lesson with DJ Lana on how to operate stuffs on the DJs booth, though Scotty explained that already (we did observe to know things as clearly as possible.)

Seventh Day (a productive one!)

When I came to the station my friend assigned earlier than me was there...monitoring. Then I continued the monitoring. We have additional work for today. Our station manager Sir Eric P., asked us to add people on JAM's account online. He gave us quota for today and we were shocked when he said that we need to have atleast one thousand (though we know he was just kidding). Me and my friend switched work every now and then. While I was monitoring, she's infront of the computer doing our additional work, then vice versa. We've also learned alot this day! Sir Allen who's in the production department taught us stuffs about production like how radio differs from television, and how he edit commercials. He discussed about old school editing (how long it takes for them to edit before) and the digital editing which he's using now and how much the sound effects they use cost...he also explained to us intellectual property rights and stuffs like plagarism.We've learned about sales matters, like how much a company pay for a radio commercial and many many more. We also stayed in the Djs booth, and Dj Scotty explain to us how he operates the gadgets infront of him. Which from those buttons will he press to turn on his mic and to play music...and others. I really love this day!!! I've learned so many things from the experts.

My Sixth Day

I arrived 30 minutes before my time and I immediately went to my place in the station. Again, I did my assigned work. radio monitoring at wave 89.1. I'm getting used to this work and since I've been doing this for a couple of days, I find myself familiarized with the commercials already. I get to know what the product was just by hearing the first line, funny! Then ate Crizelle asked us to laminate ID's for the employees... that was also fun.Another thing that made me and my friend happy was when ate Crizelle told us that so far we are doing good with our job.

My Fifth Day

I arrived early at the station and like yesterday I waited for my friend assigned in screening the calls before I went to my station (room), were I did my assigned work; radio monitoring. I found out that we were asked to monitor the commercials on other station to get their sponsors that we didn't have. I think they are having contact to those products so that the station will have additional sponsors. Few hours later, my friend and I helped Ate Cristel, one of the staff in separating cd's and putting them in cases and labeling them, then after that I proceeded to radio monitoring. I can't wait for tommorow because one of our bosses promised us to teach production stuffs!