Radio Broadcast Assistant Careers

Work Environment:

As a radio broadcast assistant, you'd support presenters and producers in creating radio programs. It'd be your task to assist to plan out programs, give technical support within studio and manage the administration.

This work could differ extensively based on station and often on program. The major dissimilarities are between music and speech radio, and between prerecorded and live radio. Though, your tasks would normally comprise:

• updating program or website of station
• researching programs
• booking studio-equipment and time

• maintaining costs' track
• organizing and sending competition-prizes
• creating program running orders and logs
• typing-scripts
• archiving material of program
• booking visitors/guests, organizing payment and getting their contracts ready

Studio-production work could comprise:

• providing creative-input like developing quiz questions, or writing-link
• controlling mixing, recording and editing equipment in live and prerecorded programs
• administering telephone-lines for competitions and phone links
• editing and recording programs trailers
• timing programs and shows

Qualification, Education and Experience:

To be a radio broadcast engineer assistant, you'd need work experience into radio, and to show your enthusiasm, flexibility and initiative to employers.

You could get experience by:

• work-placements: for information about possible openings, contact Radio Center, or BBC Work-Placements
• student, community or hospital radio: check the websites of Hospital Broadcasting-Association and Community Media-Association for a directory of hospital-stations and regional stations

You might discover it useful to accomplish a course into media/radio production. Numerous universities, colleges and community media programs provide related short, full time and part time courses comprising:

• BTEC: HND, degrees and postgraduate-courses into media/radio production
• 'City and Guilds': Diploma into Media Techniques
• ABC: Third Level Awards into Broadcast-Media
• BTEC: Diploma or Certificate into Media Production
• NCFE: First and Second Level Diploma and Certificate into Radio Production

You might have a benefit with an experience/background into research/journalism, for factual and news based radio.

Training Details:

You might accomplish short training-courses into technical fields, such as utilizing specific digital editing and recording equipment, or managing studio desks.

If you're working in BBC, you'll get training as you begin your work. It also provides various short training-courses into production and technical abilities to non employees.

For information about related training courses, check the website of skill-set.

Skills and knowledge:

• capability to plan out, prioritize and work under-pressure
• excellent verbal and written communication-skills
• computer and technical abilities
• outstanding organizational and administrative abilities
• interest into present affairs, or radio and music
• excellent team working abilities
• ideas and creativity
• flexible approach

Salary and Other Benefits:

• Remuneration for radio broadcast assistants can be around $14,000 to $18,000 for a year.
• By experience income can boost to about $26,000.

Working Conditions:

Your working hours would rely on program you're working on, thus might include weekends, late-nights and evenings. Sometimes, you'd be required to do overtime to accomplish targets.

You'd work within a recording studio and office, generally as member of smaller team comprising a researcher, producer and presenter. You might need to voyage locally/nationally as member of an outside-broadcast team.

Different Opportunities:

Numerous jobs are on short term contract basis. Commercial-stations are likely to hire experienced broadcast-journalists, presenters or producers, although would provide unpaid-work for entry level positions.

Openings might be publicized by nationwide newspapers, business journals and online.

If experienced, you can advance to technical studio-manager, radio producer or music programmer position. You can also get into television research/production.

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