Becoming a Professional Radio Jockey
“Once a radio jockey loved, and the whole city heard” — Suyash Pandey
Radio, the medium of voices is one of a kind and an exciting medium — handy and personal — which helps its listeners in developing an interesting bond with the various radio presenters and radio shows. Along with the rest of the media, Radio in the last 90 years has gone through various changes and modifications like group listening to personal, analog to digital, AM to FM, Public to Private, and Presenter to RJ.
A Radio Jockey, prominently known as an RJ, is a person who hosts a talk show on the radio. In simple words, Radio Jockey is the ‘sutradhaar’ of an assigned show on radio. The role of Radio Jockeys or RJ’s is to entertain the callers in the chat show, which is broadcasted by the radio, and communicate with the caller through telephone or VOI (voice over internet) applications and online chat. It is the job of a Radio Jockey to engage with the audience (listeners in this case) with a variety of voice modulations and natural vocal enhancements to capture their interest in the show.
The art of radio broadcasting has everything to do with understanding and relating to a medium where there exists an invisible wall between the presenters and the audience members.
In today’s time, even a Radio Jockey is sometimes treated like a celebrity. Everybody wants to be one today. It’s not that easy though. Like all things great, it takes time. But it’s achievable. If you think you are a maestro of conversations and fit for a Radio Jockey job, you may be wrong. Being a conversational king isn’t just enough to be a professional Radio Jockey; it takes a few extra skills and knowledge.
Radio Jockeys take care of the most innovative, informational & creative tasks and sink it all in as this job is all about the infotainment business. In this role, a Radio Jockey may have to control consoles; write a script for a program, record infomercials and commercials for future broadcast; publicize and make music tracks, advertisements, and accept song requests from listeners among many other tasks that may vary depending on the roles defined for that particular radio jockey in accordance to his/her defined show structure.
