Video didn’t Kill the Radio Star Afterall

Bye, Bye Radio

The days of radio are gone, they said.

Gone, gone, gone.

And the Buggles lamented about this all the way back in 1980.

Yes, the Buggles prophesized in their song called Video Killed the Radio Star that this new technology of video was going to wipe out radio as we know it.

But did it?

I think not.

I say radio is here to stay.

Oh, Hail the New Radio!

This new radio is even better than the days when I used to DJ on the air. Those were the good old college days in the city that never sleeps. I even had my very own segment during Thanksgiving weekends. Yes, I and the African songstresses graced

the airwaves over NYC for a few hours.

But this new radio? Wow! It’s special.

You don’t even have to listen in when the show is on the air. Once it hits the airwaves, you can listen to it at any time, even a year from now. And you, yes, you can also grace the airwaves anytime you want, worldwide even. I occasionally listen

to this new radio; at times, a walk listening to CarTalk was just perfect. It made the walk quite magical.

I even joined a few others to create a new radio show. Ok, well in all fairness, I passed my recordings on to the communications team, and bam! They strung the recordings together, put them on a website, and even had music to go along with it.

Let’s PODCAST.

So, I hear you can do it.

It’s simple; so, they say.

I am even going to try my hand at it now. No passing the buck to a communications team this time.

So, let’s go!

Let’s PODCAST.

But wait, wait a minute.

Like my restart at blogging, what do I want to podcast about?

I took a plunge into my brain, and nothing came up!

But then it happened.

Three.Thirty.Three

Woken up at 3:33 AM, not by my own doing but slowly woken up by sounds in a city that wakes up very early. I found myself recording the sounds. They were so familiar, yet so new. Sadly the recorder on my phone did not pick up some of the faraway sounds clearly.

My idea? Sounds of the day tell stories. What are they? What do they mean to us? What stories do they conjure up for us?

But now how to even get started?

Kindergarten Inspiration

This is where the course materials shared this week came strolling in and I felt empowered.

Empowered by hearing kindergarten students speak about the best part of themselves in Sasha Jones’ (2019) article.

What a treat!

So, I went for it.

Getting it Done? No small feat!

With a loose structure in my mind, a few tries…well, I stopped. I couldn’t string words together that lasted more than a minute so I let it be for a few hours and then came back. This time, a script and that is when I began to record in Voice Memo on my phone.

Sadly to say the evening sounds of happy hour with a live band were permeating the airwaves…so I hid in an enclosed room far away from the cacophony and my recording was born. Well, part of it that is. I had recorded the sounds of the morning and decided I needed to infuse them into the podcast; maybe at the start?

The two recordings were then uploaded into Garageband where they were neatly stacked on top of each other. I came to quickly realize that this meant that the morning sounds and that of my spoken word came out together. One needed to come after the other; it took a quick YouTube video to set me straight!

Then up went the file into Headliner. I selected a template, added some words, and simply followed the directions, and voila! With sounds to start this podcast about sounds, I chose not to add sounds when I began speaking.

Then IT happened.

My first “I did it myself” podcast; DONE!

Now how to load it into the blog? As simple as inserting any media or embedding any youtube video!

Please remember to turn on closed captions on YouTube or use the transcript!