Radio

I like radio. Most of the time...

Youth Radio is becoming a corporation. Or something like it. We sit in meetings all day long and get NOTHING resolved! We should be out there prepping for the next show, not sitting in meetings! Granted, there have been less meetings, but I think we should take them down to the minimum that we need them, say, everyone comes in, gets their assignment for that week, from the PRODUCER, not Roberta, and then go do it! And those reflection sheets! Ha! I don't think we need those, either! If you've got something to say about the show, say it afterward, while we're decompressing. Don't say it in those reflection sheets! The week should go like this:

Monday: Meet, find something on the sticky board (where all our ideas are) or think up something new, check it with the producer, and go start on it.

Friday: Come to the station, work on your piece, if you need something from someone, like music, go tell them.

Sunday: Finnish piece, run through the show in Studio C, eat, then go on air. Repeat.

I think that's how the week should go, to avoid those pointless meetings, and to appease Roberta, Paul, and Marcos, it makes us use our inter-personal skills more. If we interact with individuals more, then we build up our own relationship skills. I know that the meetings supposedly create a group mentality (or a collective, as the terminology at KUNM goes.) but there must be a better way to achieve this!!! Merely working together creates a group mentality more than meetings where everyone falls asleep. I've noticed that people form friendships and help each other out much more when we're working on something than when we're in a meeting. New ideas could also be fed to the Producer for that week if we ran out of things from the sticky board.

We could do "Freeform" shows where we get maybe some poets, a Radio Theatre piece, etc. and then just put some nice music in between. The show also doesn't have to be so serious. Lighten it up a bit! That's what I was trying for with that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory bit and the Wacky Adventures of Youth Radio. I think that we are acting too much like NPR. Don't get me wrong, I like NPR, but I don't think that's what we're going for. We ARE the Youth of the Nation, and we should act like it! No more stuff you would hear on the Evening Report or ATC! We need youth issues and not things like Hurricane Katrina. Focus on the youth, not on the adults; we need to reexamine who our listening audience is.

There are many more seeds of problems right now that will grow into full-fledged ones, so, expect more entries like this periodically.