man i really wanna be a dj

but i don't have much of a radio personality

i wish i could just play music and touch all the buttons

4/14/2005 10:01:27 PM

some of the dj's sound incredibly stoned on the air (guys & girls)

4/14/2005 10:08:36 PM

lol @ indyweek (no shit?)

wtb spectator

4/14/2005 10:38:43 PM

i DJed last summer on Wednesday mornings and played alot of 80's new wave, punk, and post-punk (ala pixies, joy division, replacements) along with johnny cash and the occasional le tigre or ska song (hey, if i did it all for me, it would have been all ska). I got in trouble my first time out b/c i ignored the "rotation" lists, which were crap like polyphonic spree, moses leroy, cure remixes and other junk. the rotation policy is garbage and is what is responsible for the redundancy of the radio. in a meeting, jared made it pretty clear to us that the purpose was to compete with 96 rock. I thought the goal was to provide something totally different, not the same thing we can go elsewhere for?

4/14/2005 11:23:08 PM

Considering the fact that most of the DJ's sound kinda lame anyway...

4/15/2005 8:54:57 AM

^^ you could have gotten a weekend spot, but honestly I dont really agree with the mandatory songs we have to play but its mostly to give the station flow and to prevent newer DJ's from playing Metallica and Slipknot all day. I dont really wanna sound like an elitist douchebag but some new DJ's play some ridiculous stuff. This is a college radio station and should be playing music by bands outside of the mainstream (although we play that stupid Killers song). But Luigi, it seems like they should have left you alone, or you should have just bite your toung and played the programmed songs you liked and just dealt with a few you didnt like.

4/15/2005 9:55:46 AM

Man, the only way i could handle DJing there is if i was a Chainsaw DJ.

4/15/2005 10:38:19 AM

luigi
your issues are Program Director issues, and we have a new Program Director, so yo might want to give it another shot.

4/15/2005 10:41:57 AM

Quote :

"crap like polyphonic spree"

4/15/2005 10:51:29 AM

Bware is a really cool guy, talk to him.

4/15/2005 11:18:25 AM

Quote :

"to give the station flow"

i think rotation does the opposite of "flow"

day before yesterday i heard van hagar sandwiched between two usual "norm-knc songs"...it was disjointed as hades

of course my ideal station would be one that did something like this:

johnny cash->robert johnson->james brown->nwa->rage against the machine->fugazi->(something to clean the palette, i.e. sound clip)->billie holiday->denali->sleater kinney->etc/etc

with proper transition and song usage, it's easy

but of course it's probably too cerebral, varied and slightly pretentious

4/15/2005 11:34:09 AM

Some Robert Johnson would be the heat on KNC...but somehow I just don't see it happening

4/15/2005 11:44:18 AM

ok cdeez

i'm counting on you to rock me out right now

4/15/2005 2:06:44 PM

OH YEAH

BASEBALL TIME

4/15/2005 2:59:28 PM

Quote :

"johnny cash->robert johnson->james brown->nwa->rage against the machine->fugazi->(something to clean the palette, i.e. sound clip)->billie holiday->denali->sleater kinney->etc/etc "

Looks like what a college station should play.

4/15/2005 4:30:35 PM

wxdu (duke) and wxyc (unc) come close, but xyc just goes too far off the deep end far too much ( i heard frog mating calls for like 10 minutes straight one day)

http://kexp.org is pretty neat...they have status like wcpe in raleigh does, but they are similar to wknc in taste...but they try to structure their playlists more

unfortunatley they're on the other side of the country

4/15/2005 11:26:27 PM

http://www.wsum.org/main.html

UW-Madison has a great station

4/15/2005 11:37:28 PM

replace all the ghey talk shows and basically everything on sunday with more after hours, underground, and shut the punk up. plz to add a bluegrass and/or non nashville country show too. oh, and quit talking about john tesh too... that's getting real old.

4/15/2005 11:50:33 PM

the talk shows are a fragment of the whole schedule...and i think there's plenty afterhours

there used to be a bluegrass show...i think it was on saturdays

underground used to be on more, but dj's had issues showing up

[Edited on April 16, 2005 at 12:06 AM. Reason : .]

4/16/2005 12:05:26 AM

there was talk of a station re-format before i left, and that's coming up on a year now

imho i think thetalk shows should be moved to morning talk shows, for the morning drive

put a weekday drive home on from 4-6, and perhaps 2 nights a week from 6-8 have a local issues slot, or perhaps just issues... i'm not talking terry shiavo (dont shoot me for not spelling the name right, that DIDNT get coverage in the UK as mujch) issues, i'm taking campus issues and things that NCSU students care about or are/will be affected by.

i think afterhours is cool from 8-12pm, but i do think that on friday and saturday night KNC should look into doing live remote brodcasting, or having more of a weekend type feel....

as for the metal - perhaps have the issues slot be an hour, and metal be an hour or two every night, push afterhours back to start at 9pm until midnight, instead of 8... dj's get hour and a half slots instead of 2 hours, and metal is played more than 2 nights a week

as far as the music goes, perhaps link up with some pan-european stations, or do a joing promotion with other college stations, WKNC has a wide reach plus online broadcasting, why not use all of that?

and SOMETHING needs to be done about the promotions department, thursdays in the brickyard once a month just isn't cutting it. local mags will cover WKNC, local clubs will get involved, local promoters will also, please get someone that knows how to do promotions behind this effort, and involve the NCSU propulation... if you're going to throw a party do it in conjunction with other places, perhaps have a remote broadcast from east village, or have decks set up on campus during hillsboro hike? throw parties with underground Dj's spinning between sets, or find some local hip hop bands (if there are any) and do a hip hop night. if you're going to do afterhours things use the local promoters and start with joint nights, get involved in weeklys and monthlies around the raleigh area

if people apply, have the proper HR people in there to get back to them about training, and actually do it.

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4/16/2005 3:46:45 PM

http://www.kexp.org/ is the former college station of the University of Washington. I say former because they grew so popular that they basically became their own entity. As such, the UW doesn't have a broadcast station any more, but we do have http://www.rainydawg.org/, which is a web-only station run by students. The greatest single feature of RainyDawg is that their website lists the last 10 songs played. I wish WKNC had something similar (they've been working on it for how long?).

Favorite show on WKNC was 'The Morning After' but now Jamie is on at 8am, which is a little early for my tastes.

4/16/2005 7:53:28 PM

Quote :

"The greatest single feature of RainyDawg is that their website lists the last 10 songs played. I wish WKNC had something similar (they've been working on it for how long?)."

i figured that was standard...i frequent the UWisc-Madison station because I am moving there in the fall and you can basically browse chronologically any song, you can search by dj, by band, by program, etc.

if you go to the currently playing section it updates in real time what is on the air and shows the last 10-15 songs that have been played. they are really quite impressive about playing requests too which is great

4/16/2005 9:16:13 PM

being hi-tech aint punx rok

4/17/2005 2:18:14 AM

Quote :

"PLAY MORE METAL LESS FAG ROCK THNX "

Play less metal or at least don't mix it with everything else.

[Edited on April 17, 2005 at 3:13 AM. Reason : I mean, I will tolerate a lot before fucking metal -- R and B, country, oldies, bluegrass, etc]

4/17/2005 3:10:57 AM

they dont play much. and the stuff they do play sucks

4/17/2005 3:40:13 AM

Quote :

"if you go to the currently playing section it updates in real time what is on the air and shows the last 10-15 songs that have been played."

kexp's got everything cataloged

http://kexp.org/playlist/playlist.asp

impressive as hell

4/17/2005 9:00:57 AM

kexp is a great station - i stream their station at work, hitting wknc when they're in a commercial set/talk set...

4/17/2005 1:24:35 PM

Quote :

"you can basically browse chronologically any song, you can search by dj, by band, by program, etc."

same difference

4/17/2005 2:05:04 PM

i must have misread your post as them only showing the last 10-15 songs

4/17/2005 3:03:01 PM

i shall forgive you

4/17/2005 6:25:33 PM

i have been meaning to listen lately, i usually only turn it on really late at night and its always techno

4/17/2005 6:31:59 PM

^ afterhours (the "techno") runs from 8pm-12am

then the undergrund runs from 12am-2am

at least thats how it used to work?

4/17/2005 6:49:06 PM

Alfonse on the Sunday Night Lounge was fucking awesome. I still get to hear the promo sometimes.

Freebase was cool on SNL as well

Some times I even taped it!!!!!!!1111

4/18/2005 5:43:10 PM

the word from our webmaster is that there will be comprehensive, all-inclusive, searchable logs at wknc.org sometime next week. there will also be song titles in winamp and on RDS

4/19/2005 3:01:39 PM

w3rd

now all you gotta do is threaten the dj's lives who don't bother with the logs at all

4/19/2005 3:36:05 PM

i definately used the logs man. that annoys me too.

i might try to grab a slot for this summer. i have all the training, and id love to do it again (as long as i can find a time i dont have to follow "rotation").

4/20/2005 3:39:14 PM

We should lobby for a team slot where the theme is "it's summer, who cares."

4/20/2005 3:48:59 PM

aha

wknc reggae "legalize it" promo @4:20 on 4/20

gg

4/20/2005 4:22:43 PM

well i didnt fill out the log b/c my username is all wacked up but i wrote everything down if you guys want to know anything

wed 2-4pm

4/20/2005 4:56:11 PM

Nix that show Weds. at 6pm. Shit is trash.

4/20/2005 5:06:48 PM

i dont know what show that is off the top of my head

4/21/2005 1:34:12 AM

ben mcneely aka benie mac

p.s. dj i hear you in there, stop playing rotation songs

4/27/2005 12:18:26 PM

I like the online stations mentioned in this thread. Anyone have any more?

4/28/2005 1:43:38 PM

^^ we used to have to play 7 an hour, things are changing tho.

4/28/2005 6:11:18 PM

i submitted an application

but i'll probably never hear back

4/28/2005 7:24:01 PM

when i got a job there i just went to the training they had a the begining of the year. I showed up and abunch of people got a tour and then I just bugged a few of the dj's to train me.

4/28/2005 8:16:10 PM

when's the next training thing

4/28/2005 8:49:01 PM

Quote :

"We should lobby for a team slot where the theme is "it's summer, who cares." "

if i get a slot for the summer...which i should

i will invite you on as a guest (no training necessary), and we'll do that.

4/28/2005 10:26:29 PM

listening to dj automation right now

i feel like i could punch wknc in the face and take its lunch money and it would be too wussy to fight back

and that's sad cause i'm about 5'8 and 130 lbs

C'MON COMPUTER, ROCK THE FUCK OUT

[Edited on May 3, 2005 at 3:34 PM. Reason : apostrophe]

5/3/2005 3:32:30 PM

especially when the talk show sux

5/3/2005 11:43:48 PM