Pubcasters assignment
...how discusses the stock market and other issues facing our economy. Throughout the remainder of the program the announcer was very serious and professional in delivering the content. After the program ended, jazzy music, like something out of the 1940’s came up to transition to the news and weather segment. An advertisement was read for a department store, and then the jazzy music came up again to transition to the next program. The next program to air was called Fresh air. This program was hosted by a woman who started off the program delivering more news. Stories like Oscar nominations, finding the remains of the spaceship that blew up, and more stock market news was spoken very clearly and seriously by this woman. The same jazzy music from the last program came up to transition to the actual show, which was basically an interview with a guest. Her guest was a British author who wrote a book about travel, and how it is not as wonderful as it may seem. The woman hosting was very courteous to this gentleman, and she seemed to agree with everything he said. Even absurd things like how he said its better to stay in bed with a travel book than to actually travel. At around 7:30pm I decided that I had all I could take of National Public Radio International. I then turned to my favorite radio station, WRRV. WRRV is broadcast out of Poughkeepsie on 96.9FM. The DJ on the air had a personality all his own, and was not overly polite and monotone like the announcers of NPRI. He seemed to take charge of his listeners and get them excited to hear the next song. Unlike NPRI, he did not talk for very long, and played rock music like the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. After a few songs the DJ took a call from a local man in Poughkeepsie, who was requesting a song. NPRI did not take any calls from listeners. After another song or two, it was time for a commercial break. Unlike NPRI, which only read an advertisement for a national department store, WRRV’s commercials had life, a...