Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll: sweetest new show on the radio.

Coming to champlain i knew exactly what i want to do with my life. I want to broadcast. I don't care if its on the radio, tv, or what probably is the future of tv news casts, online. Recently, their was a sign up for the Champlain radio station online. I looked over at my roommate Sandra with the biggest smile on my face. I asked her if she would ever want to do a radio show with me and she said "hellllll yes." So we signed up. A few weeks ago we got the email asking us to set up a schedule so we can learn how to run everything in the studio. To my surprise, it was actually a really simple set up. At home i DJ so luckily i was already kinda familiar with some of the controls and what not.

R.I.P DJ AM. one of the best DJ's of our time.

Along comes tuesday. We were preparing all day for what we wanted to talk about. All day we were telling people from home to join our FACEBOOK GROUP (which by the way anyone who reads this should join too = ]). All of our friends from home and up here were listening so we were really excited, and surprisingly not nervous.

We decided that since it was our first show we will talk about ourselves a little, funny stories that have happened to us, the little secrets of Burlington we have found, food, ect. However, we want our show to be really funny, and since we knew our friends were listening, we decided to throw our friends under the bus and tell funny stories about them as well. Even though they weren't too happy about it, i knew they were just happy to be talked about on the radio. I can honestly can say, that entire hour was one of the happiest and most comfortable i have ever been, even though the studio is the size of a small jail cell.

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By doing this show it has only confirmed my choice of my major and that this is definitely what i want to be doing with my life. Talking and talking and talking, my favorite thing to do. And people are tuning in so i know they actually want to listen.

Our show is from tuesdays 9 to 10pm ON THIS WEBSITE. i hope you guys tune in, its a really fun time!

Canada hates us.

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 450,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

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The other night my friend and I wanted to watch a movie, having been on the awesome blog for Media and Society , I remembered seeing something about the website for Hulu, where you can go and watch movies for free. I went to the recently popular section, and to my surprise almost all of the movies were documentaries on weed. Considering we are in Burlington, VT we said, hey, why not. We ended up watching the documentary called, The Union: The Business Behind Getting High. Now I'm not about to review this movie ((even though it was very good)) or saying i condone the smoking of weed, but I just wanted to mention how much this movie made me think about our government, and how it seems so sneaky. The quote i put at the beginning of this blog is not the exact quote from the movie, but these are the facts that were mentioned. It is a movie about the big industry that creates and selling illegal Cannabis.Cannabis is still illegal in most parts of the world,despite that cigarettes and Alcohol are taking more life's then Cannabis.

The title of "Canada Hates Us," relates to one part of the movie where these two guys from Canada are about to be arrested and put in jail in the U.S for life, and are being tried by a U.S jury, for selling weed seeds over the internet to people in the U.S, even though it is completely legal in Canada. Thats a little harsh in my opinion by our government. One last thing it made me think about, was the power of the pharmaceutical companies over the government's decision of legalizing weed. They don't want people "growing their own medicine." Also, many of the studies that have been done to prove the "harmfulness" of weed on the brain, were made biased scientist who did not want the legalization of weed so they did them so that no matter what, it would prove weed harmful. The one experiment that was the most horrible was they had monkeys that they put oxygen masks on and pumped them full of pure weed smoke, with no oxygen. So by the end of the few weeks when the results came out saying weed kills brain cells, it was not even from that, it was from the 10 minutes a day the monkeys were deprived of oxygen. Kinda shady in my opinion.

Thats it for now, enjoy the trailer and if you are looking for a good movie that actually does make you think. Check it out, might raise some questions.

1. KEY CONCEPT: Although there are so many benefits to online music sharing, there are also draw backs. Illegal music sharing is very prominent in the world, where in 2008 the ratio was 20:1. The reason this is really bad is because, everyone does it and it is impossible to catch everyone who is doing it and there will always be way to do it.

2. KEY TERM: Compact discs- digitally recorded music onto a small disc which means, a smaller, higher quality, more convenient way for artists to get their music to the public.

3. FIVE FACTS:

1. Frank Sinatra was categorized in 1943 s "the glorification of ignorance and musical illiteracy."
2. Elvis pushed the limits of the public in the 1950's with all of the sexuality surrounding him because religious parents of teens were upset how he was "influencing" their children.

3. The perception of rock and roll was looked at as "juvenile delinquency" in the 1950's.

4. Until 1964, no British artists appeared on the US top 10 charts until the Beatles.

5 By the late 1970's, the rock slogan about the music of the previous decade was "disco sucks."

4. PERSONAL STORY: At home i work for a DJ company, so I love music. With my company we always get CD's with music that has not come out yet, so for me, when i finally hear it on the radio i always get excited because i have known it for however long. Oppositely, i do also listen to the radio to hear what music is popular now. We mainly DJ dances, sweet 16's, grad parties, weddings, so by listening to the top 100 can show me music that is popular that we dont have and can download electronically so we can have it.

5. A SINGLE QUESTION: Is it possible that one day, no artists will put out hard copies, CD's, of their music?

Chapter 4

1. KEY CONCEPT: The idea of the "economic shift" is very prominent in the radio business; for example, Clear Channel owns over 1200 radio stations, s opposed to just one to be in control over.

2. KEY TERM: Wireless telegraphy- one of the the first forms of point to point communication- sends voice and sound transmissions to many form of mass communications, now known as broadcasting.

3. FIVE FACTS:

1. An Audion was is a vacuum tube that detects radio waves and amplifies them.

2. Narrowcasting, as opposed to broadcasting, is person to person communication

3. By 1925, 5,5 million radio sets were used n America where radio officially became a mass medium.

4. A network allows stations to control program costs and avoid duplication

5. The Federal communications act was set in place in 1934.

4. PERSONAL STORY: I love the radio. Although talk radio is not very popular anymore, there is one channel that i can actually stand listening too. I live in New Jersey, so we listen to alot of New york city radio. One of these stations is Z100, which is pretty much all popular music, but during the week days from 6am to 11am there is a talk radio program calls "Elvis Duran and the morning show." I love it because they talk about interesting topics and they are just so funny. For litterally all four years of highschool i would listen to them every morning while i got ready for school.

5. A SINGLE QUESTION: Eventually will talk radio officially not be broadcasted anymore?or you.

all about me

Where are you from?

Im from middletown, New Jersey.

2. Fun Media Experience.

THe best media experience i had this year were all the concerts i went to, my favorite was the pepper, O.A. R. and 311 concert.

3. Likes/dislikes

I love how simple it is to get access to information and news from all over the world in a matter of seconds of it happening. One of the things i would like to do with my life is be a broadcast journalist for celebrity gossip, on that not i hate how rumors about certain celebrities can just be blown way out of portion, especially about certain scandals that can ruin their lives.

4. Future

I am a broadcast journalist major and one day would like to be a reporter for either fuel TV or E network.