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The Radio Files # 4 – Announcing Part 4 (My Claire Miranda Notes)

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I’ve been cleaning my house in preparation for my move back to the US. Sifting through a ton of stuff is no easy feat both physically and emotionally but my goal is to squeeze my life into suitcases and boxes.

Being a packrat has its pros and cons. For the former, I have so many things of sentimental value; for the latter, I have so many things of sentimental value. The challenge is figuring out what I really need versus what I want to keep. My mantra is “be brutal about purging oneself of what is not necessary”. So while I’ve been separating my life into piles labelled “Keep”, “Donate”, “Discard”, I found more lessons learned from my time in radio.

These were put together by our Programming Director in NU107 in 1995, Claire Miranda. As soon as my life is more in order and the dust has settled, I’ll scan old pics and post either on my flickr or here. Until then, you’ll just have to Google these former bosses of mine that I keep mentioning.

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The Radio Files # 4 – Announcing Part 3

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It was a regular Tuesday afternoon staff meeting when I learned this. I had already been working in radio for more than a few years at this time in 1995. The NU 107 On-Air Staff were gathered around the long table of our Conference Room at Strata 200 at the Ortigas Center in Pasig.

Ron Titular (Station Manager) and Claire Miranda (Programming Director) had just started a mini-workshop for us to take us back to the basics of announcing. We were spending our meetings brushing up on technique and playing games like Mad Gab and Taboo to become better jocks and newscasters. Who woulda thunk that? Board games to improve on announcing. My, my I do declare.

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The Radio Files # 4 – Announcing Part 2

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I hope these little tips have been helpful in any way! Whether you’re a radio listener, an announcer, or a podcaster, I hope I’ve shared something of worth. I’ve actually enjoyed dumping all this information here on my blog. At least it’s somewhere else and not just cooped up inside my brain.

I’ve had other blogs waiting in line for this series to finish, but since this one keeps growing with each topic I come up with, they’ll have to wait. That and the fact that I’m obsessive about order will make me finish this first before moving on to another topic

We laid the ground work in befriending our SAPs and now that that’s out of the way, let’s move on to Playing with Your Voice Inflections.

This would be much easier to share if this were an audio blog that came complete with a podcast. But since I don’t have the toys to do that yet, I’ll do my best to describe how to play with your voice. And you can always stop by my Voice Library over on Vox to give me a listen.

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The Radio Files # 4 – Announcing Part 1

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I had the privilege of working for, and training under, some of the best people in Philippine radio. People like Al Torres (who is now in charge of 92.3 xFM), Ron Titular (former NU107 Station Manager who is now in charge of the The Edge Radio), Claire Miranda (radio goddess from 99.5RT and NU107), and Jake Agregado (Producer/Host of NU107′s The Morning Show with Jake and Joey, 1996-1997).

The reason I mention them is to give credit to the people I consider my mentors. They who did not shrink back to tell me I sucked and taught me how not to.

I’ll tackle Hosting/Co-hosting next, but for now I’ll just randomly dump my thoughts on solo announcing, AKA being the lone voice you hear sans banter with newscaster, traffic reporter and co-DJ who pops in the booth to annoy. We’ll do three parts on this – Follow your Station SAPs, Playing with Your Voice Inflections, and The Secret of Always Using “You”.

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