It’s been just over two years, though I may be wrong – you know how fast time flies by! By my reckoning, that’s when I started presenting my show for the Weybridge Radio Station.
Before then, my broadcasting experience there had mainly been co-presenting on an early evening Sunday show, which initially involved reading out the weather forecasts and other bits and pieces, and then progressed to doing more and more presenter cover when other Radio Station staff were away. Then, all of a sudden, completely out of the blue, the management did a reshuffle of the Programming Schedule, which meant that the early evening Sunday two hour slot needed a presenter. I was offered the job, and the rest is history!
At first I stuck with the format of the last presenter, which was playing 70′s and 80′s music around the speech based features. Much as I love those 70′s and 80’s sounds, I wanted to make the show more of my own. Since I was a huge fan of this kind of music, and felt that there was a bit of a gap in the Schedule for it, I changed the type of tracks played to 90′s and 00′s (that’s nineties and noughties), and introduced some new features. To date, as well as this 90′s and 00′s playlist my show includes the following:
- A music based quiz
- A film based quiz
- An Entertainments news round up
- A request track
- Two light news stories
- A ‘What’s on’ feature for the local area
I have got to know the above format well, and am now used to finding the material in respect of the preparation. The thing is, when presenting the show, it still seems to be a bit feature lite – in some parts I’m finding there is an over reliance on music tracks to fill air time.
As I see it I have to ways of dealing with this. The first is too re-jig the existing features by having them at different points in the show, for example, one feature every quarter of an hour, which would distribute them more evenly over the course of the two hour broadcast. The second method is definitely the more difficult option, which is to think up some brand new features to add to the ones above – at the moment my inspiration level is annoyingly low!
I’ll probably end up doing some sort of mix of the above methods. If any of you out there have any (polite) suggestions please let me know!