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  Advice and information for getting into radio broadcasting

A career in radio presenting and production depends on a number of different factors. The most important is luck. Getting into radio is about you being of a creative nature, wanting to share with others your thoughts and ideas. To share your music and creativity.

Making a career in radio is rewarding and with the "luck" factor some presenters become highly successful, rich and end up on TV too.

It doesn't matter whether you want to be a newscaster, DJ/Presenter or Producer, radio offers a rewarding career that you can do until the day you die !

 
 
Radio is able to do so much more that TV can attempt to do. It can be done anywhere anytime without camera operators, sound people and lighting and makeup. It's immediate and very now. 

Like all media, making a career in radio requires determination, a thick skin, and a real gut feeling you want to do it. If you just want to be famous and earn lots of cash, forget it. Lots of bright people want to get in to do it and the competition is stiff so you'll definitely need the determination factor big time to make a route into radio. Rod Lucas's Radio School offers excellent and recommended Radio Training in the UK and online.

The Government body called The Sector Skills Council in the UK (Skillset) was set up to support the broadcast industry by developing broadcast training schemes. They say they also provide impartial broadcast careers advice for careers in radio. Skillset say. "Broadcast radio is the second largest sector within creative media in terms of workforce size."

However the Skillset "route into radio" scheme appears to have disappeared up it's own Ariel ! With only a few applicants offered placements, most of which were already connected with radio stations in the first place. Applicants for the 'Route into Radio' scheme also had to stump up £500, thus making it prohibitive for the unwaged. This is clearly not enough Skillset, for a government body your radio training intentions are lacking you'll need to better in future for people wanting to make a route into radio. Read this write up on Skillset's Route into Radio.