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KBVR show is able to place callers live on air; station may see actual rating numbers - student opinion broadcasted city-wide
Craig Bidiman
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: News
A lot more work goes into creating a radio show than pushing a few buttons.
For two OSU students this reality has just turned into second nature.
Sophomores Nick Van Sandt - an international business major, and Rick Crawford - a history and education double major, have been producing their own radio show through the student radio station, 88.7 KBVR, for almost a year.
"The point of our show is to entertain," Crawford said. " We have a lot of fun doing this, we don't get paid for it, so obviously we do it because it is fun."
The show, titled Jungle Juice: The Nick and Rick Show, aired its first episode the week after this year's Super Bowl.
The two rookies took their first of many shots at celebrities, starting with Prince and his halftime show.
Since that first show, the duo mentioned structuring their ideas and the overall format of the show a great deal more than they originally had.
They still recite much of current world news while placing their own comical spin on most of the topics, while adding segments to the show like Question of the Week, and furthering their personal favorite, Celebrity of the Week.
Due to their completely biased approach to the news, as Crawford puts it, they must deliver a standard disclaimer before their show each week.
"We have to have a disclaimer before our show because we have to plainly state that our opinions do not represent anyone else's in the world," Crawford said.
"Since we are generally talking about subjects that may offend people, we have to make sure that no other affiliations are included with our opinions."
This year, the two were granted the opportunity to actually place callers on air during their show, which is why they adapted the Question of the Week segment.
"We did this," said Van Sandt, the news director at KBVR, "so that we could see whether or not people were actually listening to us."
There is no form of ratings system at the station, so there is no way to know if people are tuning in or not.
For two OSU students this reality has just turned into second nature.
Sophomores Nick Van Sandt - an international business major, and Rick Crawford - a history and education double major, have been producing their own radio show through the student radio station, 88.7 KBVR, for almost a year.
"The point of our show is to entertain," Crawford said. " We have a lot of fun doing this, we don't get paid for it, so obviously we do it because it is fun."
The show, titled Jungle Juice: The Nick and Rick Show, aired its first episode the week after this year's Super Bowl.
The two rookies took their first of many shots at celebrities, starting with Prince and his halftime show.
Since that first show, the duo mentioned structuring their ideas and the overall format of the show a great deal more than they originally had.
They still recite much of current world news while placing their own comical spin on most of the topics, while adding segments to the show like Question of the Week, and furthering their personal favorite, Celebrity of the Week.
Due to their completely biased approach to the news, as Crawford puts it, they must deliver a standard disclaimer before their show each week.
"We have to have a disclaimer before our show because we have to plainly state that our opinions do not represent anyone else's in the world," Crawford said.
"Since we are generally talking about subjects that may offend people, we have to make sure that no other affiliations are included with our opinions."
This year, the two were granted the opportunity to actually place callers on air during their show, which is why they adapted the Question of the Week segment.
"We did this," said Van Sandt, the news director at KBVR, "so that we could see whether or not people were actually listening to us."
There is no form of ratings system at the station, so there is no way to know if people are tuning in or not.
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