Radio's biggest kept secret is:

Your broadcasting degree/certificate will not help you to get a job!

That's right radio's biggest kept secret is that your broadcasting degree/certificate will not help you get a job in broadcasting! Now you might be saying to yourself how is that possible? 

 

Here's the reality of getting a job in broadcasting. It's all based on one thing and that's your On-Air Demo.  Everything else is irrelevant says i-98.3's Program Director Mike Merlin

 

"As a Program Director I get On-Air demo tapes from broadcasting school students all the time. Most of these demo tapes go straight into the garbage simply because they are not good." I am absolutely blown away by students who send in demo's with weak content, bad levels, and just an overall lack of understanding of how to put together a demo."

 

Do you have previous on-air experience? What do you sound like on the air? Are your production skills good? These are the skills that get you hired.

 

The bottom line: When it comes to broadcasting schools in Connecticut you've got two choices. You can spend over $11,000 and go to that "other" broadcasting school . Your training there will take place in a simulated radio environment and earning real air time is not included in your training . Everything you do is a simulation. When you graduate you will have NO EXPERIENCE in radio.

 

OR

 

You can go to the Eastern Connecticut Radio Academy and receive your training at a commercially licensed AM and FM radio station and produce commercials to run on both radio stations while having the opportunity for real air-time.  By choosing ECRA you're choosing real on-air experience over no on air experience. You're choosing to produce commercials that run on a real radio station over creating "fake" commercials. You're choosing to be able to put i-98.3 On-Air Personality on your resume over just Broadcasting School Graduate. When you graduate you will have REAL EXPERIENCE working in radio. And it's all for under $6000. 

 

The choice is yours so choose wisely. It could be the difference between working in radio, or wishing you did. Start your career as a professional radio broadcaster by clicking here. You'll be glad you did.