{"id":100,"date":"2009-06-22T16:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-06-22T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T23:58:04","slug":"college-radio-dj-archetypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2009\/06\/college-radio-dj-archetypes\/","title":{"rendered":"College Radio DJ Archetypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1572.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-107\" title=\"Sign Outside College Radio Station KZSC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/1572-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sign Outside College Radio Station KZSC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign Outside College Radio Station KZSC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those who make pronouncements about radio are always saying that it&#8217;s a personality-driven medium. I&#8217;m not so sure that I agree with that when it comes to non-commercial radio (especially college radio stations that are focused more on the music than on the DJs); but there&#8217;s no doubt that listeners are often drawn to and captivated by certain on-air personalities.<\/p>\n<p>One such personality is Jesse Thorn (aka the host of <a href=\"http:\/\/maximumfun.org\/shows\/sound-young-america\" target=\"_blank\">The Sound of Young America<\/a>, a syndicated public radio show) and he actually has a college radio past.<\/p>\n<p>As I was writing up a news item about this for my <a href=\"http:\/\/spinningindie.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/college-radio-tidbits-wknc-gets-kudos.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spinning Indie blog<\/a>, I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrosantacruz.com\/metro-santa-cruz\/08.23.06\/tsoya-0634.html\" target=\"_blank\">vintage 2006 article<\/a> in which he outlines a list of the typical characters who one might encounter at a college\/community radio station (no doubt inspired by his experience at college station <a href=\"http:\/\/kzsc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KZSC<\/a> where he first developed his radio show). According to Jesse these college\/community radio archetypes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Arrogant 19-year old<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Awareness Raiser<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Reggae Guys<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Aging Hippies (Friendly)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Aging Hippies (Embittered)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Student Station Manager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Long-Suffering Faculty Member<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Aspiring Public Radio Producers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude-->And, indeed, it&#8217;s all those crazy stereotypic personalities that make college and community radio great: both on the air and behind the scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who make pronouncements about radio are always saying that it&#8217;s a personality-driven medium. I&#8217;m not so sure that I agree with that when it comes to non-commercial radio (especially college radio stations that are focused more on the music than on the DJs); but there&#8217;s no doubt that listeners are often drawn to and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4876,50],"tags":[6,5042,1333,1597,5069,2806],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-radio","category-public-radio","tag-college-radio","tag-community-radio","tag-jesse-thorn","tag-kzsc","tag-public-radio","tag-the-sound-of-young-america"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}