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 2009/01/15 – Report of Visiting BCC Formosa Network (Taichung) and participating in Broadcasting Journalist Camp[Tze-qi Lin]

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Participants:
Advising teachers: Director Hsun-de Cho, Mr. Bao-chia (teacher) Wu, Teacher Wei-chun Chang
Volunteers: Da-sheng Lin, Bao-chian Tzeng, Chun-ling Hsiao
Students: Ting-wei Hsu, Min-ching Hsieh, Ya-jun Hsu, Rong-cheng Liu, Hsin-ju Hsu, Tze-qi Lin, Hong-yu Hsu, Jun-hsian Hsu, Wei-wen Hsu, Jing-yu Hsu

        I learned from my visit to BCC: 1) to be a great radio show host (especially the anchor for news broadcast), one must prepare tongue twisters to train for maintaining smoothness and accurate enunciation while speaking fast; 2) must speak each word very clearly to avoid confusing the listeners and becoming embarrassed; 3) radio program host must prepare for the target audience and know the topic and program content that the audience prefers; 4) the “dishes” refer to the knowledge that the host has and the music that the host prepares; 5) to host a program welcomed by many, the host must continually learning new knowledge; 6) to be a good host, one must be passionate about people, events and things in his or her environment to avoid being stuck in solitude in the recording room. To be a good program host, one must have possess the attitude & qualification above, in addition to being willing to learn before becoming a perfect radio program host. Ps: waves were discovered by Hertz.

Photo: In the Broadcasting Journalist Camp, Tze-qi Lin is recording a program. It’s exciting and nerve-wrecking.

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  2009/01/15– Report of  Visiting BCC Formosa Network (Taichung) and participating in Broadcasting Journalist Camp[Hsin-ju Hsu]

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Today we visited BCC and interviewed Director Chen. Before our interview, Director Chen gave everyone a lesson in broadcasting. During the class, he mentioned that the relay station must be placed at a high ground in order for the signal to travel far. Although the signal will pass through obstacles, but its strength will become weaker.
Next, he presented another lesson, which was about being a host. The most important thing being a host is “good enunciation”. During the training process, the host-to-be must practice tongue twisters because that helps the host-candidate to speak smoothly and fluently. After the lesson, we were invited into the recording room. I was a little scared upon entering and I was still a little bit nervous after some classmates finished reading their scripts. When it was my turn, I discovered that it was nothing to be afraid of; the process involved talking to a microphone and equipment. It was all right even if the reader wasn’t fluent; all they had to do is make a few cuts and pastes to reach near perfection. The equipment in the recording room was quite amazing. It really didn’t matter much how bad one read his or her scripts, the equipment took care of all the issues and the end result was completely different then what one imaged. It was simply remarkable.
Then we visited the director of the station, Mr. Chen, who took much care answering our questions and helped everyone to gain much knowledge of BCC and broadcasting.

Photo: Host Jie-mei Long offered a prize for answering a question and Hsin-ju Hsu answered the question correctly and got the prize.

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 2009/01/15– Report of  Visiting BCC Formosa Network (Taichung) and participating in Broadcasting Journalist Camp(Ya-jun Hsu)

Content:

Host Jie-mei Long of Taichung Station told us that are many necessary conditions to be a host, some examples are listed below:
1) Must be sensitive to the target audience.
2) Different music is played because old people and young people have different tastes.
3) The old broadcasting was more text-book oriented but today’s programming is more diverse.
4) Anyone can be a host for radio programming; one isn’t required to be a graduate of broadcasting major and as long as he or she speaks clearly with enough professional knowledge, he or she can be broadcasting personnel.
5) Different age level likes different broadcasts.
6) Radio program host are like chefs and different music plus knowledge is like their “dish”.
7) To host a popular program, the host must continually learn and be fully prepared before hand.
8) Radio program host (especially news casters) often trains with tongue twisters in order to be able to speak fast with great enunciation.
9) A host for reporting Taiwanese dialect must sound folksy.
10) As long as one is diligent in practicing the techniques for broadcasting, one can become a popular program host.
The above 10 examples really inspired me and I want to be a host for radio programming. There was this Director Chen, who told us much information concerning waves, such as it was discovered in 1873 and the unit of waves was [HZ](Hertz); the reason the unit was called Hertz was because there was a scientist in US named Hertz. He was the discoverer of radio waves and thus the unit was named after him.

Photo: Look! Does Ya-jun Hsu look like a host?