LO2: Job roles

                        Job Roles in Radio


There are lots of different jobs you can find in radio that you may never have heard of or considered. 



Presenters and personalities- These are the people you can hear talking on the radio. They host the radio show and their job is to be friendly, energetic and to draw others into listening to their radio station. They talk and interview guests (many big radio stations will have celebrity guests), talk about prizes and draws that the listeners can participate in, 

Announcers-  They announce/talk about the next songs that will be played, the adverts and public service announcements.

News Director - Researches and collects information on news stories and event the radio station could talk about. Media researches and reporters are also job roles that help with this.

Program Director- Choose what music is going to be played and when when the radio is broadcasting.

Promotions Director - Cover the marketing and advertising side of radio. They promote the radio station. 

Station manager - They choose who gets hired or not and are included in the hiring process. They run the radio station.

Sales manager - Look at the money the radio station has and how it should be used for advertising or programming.

Media researcher and reporters - They collect information about news stories or events that have happened recently so the presenters, news reporters and personalities can talk about them on the radio. They are important as without media researches and reporters, the radio wouldn't know what stories to talk about.

Technical support or engineers - Help set up the radio equipment and make sure everything is working properly, they also fix equipment and do maintenance. Furthermore, they do any troubleshooting that needs doing with the equipment to make sure the radio can be broadcasted.

Music Director - Helps the program director, controls the music library and does the legal side and royalties for PRS.

Broadcast news journalist/news reporter - They research different news stories and collect information about them and then present them.

Radio producer - Create content for radio programmes and choose content for the radio website and app.





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