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Creating Powerful Radio - Getting, Keeping & Growing Audiences for News, Talk, Information & Personality
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For aspiring and professional talk show hosts or broadcasters, or anyone who has ever gone on radio or TV to promote your work or engage in public speaking, Creating Powerful Radio will help you become a more authentic and powerful storyteller, speaker and communicator to more powerfully engage audiences! "This book is to radio as the "JOY OF COOKING" is for those who cook!" "Creating Powerful Radio is the best book you’ll read about effective communication no matter what business you are in." - Erin Davis, Air Personality "This is the book I wish someone had given me..." -David G. Hall VP/Programming CBS Radio KNX NewsRadio/ Los Angeles "Filled with the essential tricks of the trade that take an entire career to learn." -Lee Harris 1010 WINS/ New York "My copy keeps getting stolen off my desk." - Cathy...
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For aspiring and professional talk show hosts or broadcasters, or anyone who has ever gone on radio or TV to promote your work or engage in public speaking, Creating Powerful Radio will help you become a more authentic and powerful storyteller, speaker and communicator to more powerfully engage audiences!

"This book is to radio as the "JOY OF COOKING" is for those who cook!" "Creating Powerful Radio is the best book you’ll read about effective communication no matter what business you are in." - Erin Davis, Air Personality

"This is the book I wish someone had given me..."

-David G. Hall

VP/Programming CBS Radio

KNX NewsRadio/ Los Angeles

"Filled with the essential tricks of the trade that take an entire career to learn."

-Lee Harris

1010 WINS/ New York

"My copy keeps getting stolen off my desk."

- Cathy Hughes

CEO Radio One

"Now I've got the help I need to find and develop hit talent."

-David Gleason

Vice President of Programming

Univision Radio

 

For broadcasters and aspiring broadcasters:

* GROW AUDIENCES -- Increase your ratings! Work with LifeStage Demographics: Know your audience and how they listen. www.lifestagedemographics.com

* PROGRAMMING - Topics. Build exciting programming - even on dull news days - with proven techniques to guide programmers and talent to the next level of performance.

* NEWS - Write & deliver powerful news. Learn multiple version techniques and much more.

* PERSONALITY - Identify winning talent. Develop strong air personalities. Learn to

manage high ego talent and motivate your staff to do their best.

* TALK - Secrets to improve your show. Learn powerful radio interview techniques and ways to make the talk win big.

* INFORMATION - Break down the walls between news and entertainment radio. Creative methods to easily write and deliver complex, detailed stories or issues using the multi-version method.

* PROMOTIONS - Learn methods to spread the word about your station and write powerful copy for more effective promos and commercials.

* AIRCHECKING - A comprehensive step-by-step guide to show prep and effective airchecking.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Creating Powerful Radio
2. Finding & Developing Talent
3. Generators & Reactors
4. Performance & Formatics
5. Morning Shows
6. From Rock to Talk
7. Talk Shows
8. Integrating News & Talk
9. Interviews
10. Show Prep
11. Producers
12. Call Screening
13. High Ego Talent
14. News
15. Traffic & Weather Together
16. Newswriting
17. News - Anchoring
18. Multi-version News
19. News - Integrating Radio & TV
20. Public Service Announcements
21. Avoiding Burnout
22. Airchecking
23. Promotion
24. Sales & Commercials
25. LifeStage Demographics
26. Research
27. Final Notes
Index
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The latest book from Focal Press in 2011, is "Beyond Powerful Radio -A Communicators Guide to the Internet Age"

About Valerie

Author, broadcaster, talent coach, instructor, and consultant Valerie Geller works with on air personalities for news, talk and information radio and television (both public and commercial) throughout the world. A former news director (K101 in San Francisco), program director...

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