Reporter Guest DJ at Port FM Ashburton
A guest radio star is born
Mid Canterbury Herald reporter John Hobbs took on the weekly challenge this week as a
guest announcer on Port FM Ashburton.
This week I got to dabble in the world of radio after Port FM DJ Bex Carr asked me to be
a guest on her morning show – although this meant I had to be up bright and early, which
is always a challenge.
I got to the studio and made my way to Bex's lair, where I was armed with a highlighter
and a sheet of celebrity gossip snippets to read on air.
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Getting ready: John goes through the gossip list before going on air.
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After a few minutes it was on with the headphones and I was straight into it. I felt
pretty special being introduced on air and before I knew it, it was time to open my
mouth and speak.
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Crunch time: Time to go live on the airwaves.
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Through the morning I got to read out the latest celebrity gossip and news and even
some general chit-chat, which was a lot of fun. I also got to read out the daily horoscopes
so I felt like quite a guru after that. Because May is New Zealand Music Month I picked
out a couple of my favourite Kiwi songs at the moment to play on air – I hope listeners
liked my choices.
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Complicated: Choosing a few New Zealand songs to play on the radio.
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When I studied media communication a few years ago, part of that course included radio
work such as announcing and live news reading, so I was not as nervous as I was back then.
But I still had the inevitable slip-up and felt quite silly afterwards. During a quick-fire
question round I could not remember the name of the town between Timaru and Winchester. My
head kept saying Tekapo even though I knew that was wrong so in the end I said "the T one",
then remembered it was Temuka five seconds later. Whoops.
I had a lot of fun and got to try heaps of different things.
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Teamwork: DJ Bex Carr and John finish the shift with a big smile.
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It was basically like chatting to a friend but wearing headphones and having a giant
microphone in front of me.
Also, I'll be a regular guest on Port FM each Wednesday at 8.45am so make sure you tune
in while reading your copy of the Mid Canterbury Herald.
- © Fairfax NZ News
© Timaru Herald June 1st, 2011.
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