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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 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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The Radio Files # 3 – Names

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Apologies for taking a while to get back in here and continue with the series. Allow me to explain.

I’m online at the office all day and for some reason, I just never got around to downloading iTunes for my desktop. Call me a creature of order. iTunes goes with Apple and Windows Media Player goes with Windows XP. Wrong.

A podcast called JD’s Musical Alchemy finally got me to download iTunes and in turn, opened up a whole new world to me on my desktop!

That’s what I’ve been busy with. Subscribing, subscribing, subscribing to podcasts like there’s no tomorrow. That in turn got me excited about doing one myself with ex-morning show partner, Zach! Zach and Joey 2.0!

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Zach and Joey were in the Morning

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I missed blogging on the anniversary of the end of our show!

March 14, 2003. Wow! It’s been four years since I left NU107! It must be my preoccupation with living my current life sans rock stars and rock happenings. People who remember me from my season as a cool morning show host cannot fathom why I would leave all that behind.

I wish I could say I moved on to my dream job of writing for Conde Nast Traveller and alternately globe-trekking with Ian Wright on the telly, but truthfully, I leaped from ultra-creative to ultra-corporate when I signed up as Accent Training Manager for the then new call center industry. I traded in my 5AM alarm to get to my 6AM show for a 9AM bedtime and a 5PM alarm. My lunch hour was when the world was fast asleep past midnight. And because of my gift of gab from all my years in radio, I was consistently part of client presentations to help woo new business.

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