Chabot College
November 1999
Course Outline for Mass Communications 34
RADIO STUDIO TECHNIQUES
Catalog Description:
34 - Radio Studio Techniques
3 units
Operational procedures and practices in a modern radio broadcast studio. Emphasis on production
aspects including editing and announcing, station operations and commercial radio programming.
Strongly recommended: Mass Communications 31. (May be taken concurrently.) 3 hours lecture, 1
hour lab.
[Typical contact hours: lecture 52.5, laboratory 17.5]
Prerequisite Skills:
None
Expected Outcomes for Students:
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
1. demonstrate the ability to operate all types of standard broadcast studio equipment;
2. create, record, edit, and prepare for broadcast, announcements, promotional and continuity copy
suitable for use in professional environment;
3. demonstrate an understanding of general broadcast station and will successfully work with
promotional copy, and prerecorded inserts;
4. present a complete radio audition tape, utilizing live and recorded sources,
with smooth control of continuity and appropriate on air production techniques.
Course Content:
1. Radio studio operational procedures and practices. The student will experience actual work on a
radio studio console and become familiar with all types of broadcasting equipment.
Methods of Presentation:
1. Lectures and discussions
2. Tape recordings
3. Video tape demonstrations
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
1. Class participation in analyzing topics of discussion based on instructor observation of the extent
to which students apply the techniques of media analysis
2. Oral presentations of group research and discussion
3. Write analysis of an on-air persona profile
4. Fill out a radio station hierarchical organizational flowchart and define each position
5. Analyze and answer questions on a radio industry salary survey
6. Create a graphic musical rotation system hot clock
7. In a group, create a radio station and define the demographics of the target audience, the format,
marketing and promotional campaign, and present it as a group for the class to analyze
8. Write a descriptive word painting without telling us who you’re writing about, read it to the class as
if on-air, and the class will analyze its effective creativity
9. Complete weekly lab assignments
10. Objective examinations
11. Demonstration of practical skill in operation of studio equipment
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Course Outline for Mass Communications 34, Page 2
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12. Understanding of standard broadcast practices
13. Final written test
14. Mid-term and final tape presentation
Textbook(s) Typical):
Introduction to Radio: Production and Programming, Michael H. Adams & Kimberly K. Massey, McGrawHill Pub., 1994
KCRH Handbook, Chad Mark Glen & Rick Strauss, CMG Pub., 1999
Special Student Materials:
None
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