MAKE COOL MONEY IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR BY STARTING RADIO SHOW.

Oil and Gas Radio Show

Oil and gas sector is big enough to accommodate any entrepreneur who is interested in starting Radio Show and make money. The continuity of your business successfully would depend on your high end sponsors. So, try to secure good sponsors that are interested in your programmes. 

Some important step to consider: 

Obtaining air time or any open positions in the radio station to host your show.

Contact Radio station of your interest about how to obtain air time from their station for your Oil and Gas show. You would talk to radio stations in your area about the type of show you want to have and ask about their process for new radio show hosts. You can consult different radio stations to know the one that suit you most.

Try to secure radio time on the same day and time each week or day to help build up a larger listenership of people who can expect to hear your show at a certain time. If you would need the service of a radio DJ and play music, contact stations that play the type of music you would want to play. The same goes for spoken audio shows: you will want to reach out to public talk radio stations about your news, operations and documentary style show.

Learn how to speak on a live broadcast.

On your Oil and gas Radio Show, try to speak slowly and carefully on the radio so that listeners would not be guessing at what you say without adjusting their radio volume. Be mindful to follow guidelines for appropriate language on the radio and consider which content is appropriate for your target audience.

Consult the your station’s own rules for what words are prohibited live on air and what song lyrics you need to edit or not use if playing music.

Practice the use of station’s equipment.

Practice would give you confidence during your show. Try to get tutorial of equipment you would use for broadcasting your show through a local studio. Familiarize yourself with the functions of the technology you would use (like microphones, speakers, sound mixers, etc.

During live broadcast, you would have sound mind operating them on the air.

You can ask if you can “shadow” another radio show host to get a better feel for how equipment, signals, and procedures go during a real broadcast to learn each step as they go. Also try to find out if you can do several “dry runs” or demos before going live yourself. Try to understand how to troubleshoot or solve problems with the equipment you use.

Online Radio show broadcast

Plan it well not to disappoint your listeners. You can record a radio show using any electronic device available and broadcast it online for the potential of having listenership from all over the world. Recordings may be directly within a computer or phone application that allows you to edit the audio as well. Among others, Spreaker and Audacity are good apps that you can use. Also, you can broadcast a show live online, or make it available through a podcast service.

Currently, podcasts are a very popular off-shoot from live radio broadcast, and a great option if you want to produce a radio show but can’t find a source to broadcast it live. Beginning a podcast would allow you to pre-record and edit a show before releasing it on the internet.

In your oil and gas Radio show, free programs like Spreaker, Radionomy and BlogTalkRadio would help you to record, edit, and broadcast your own radio show.

Find editing software to organize your Oil and Gas Radio Show

You can Import all of your audio files into an editing program that permits you to change, cut, move and add effects to your audio to turn it into one complete episode of a radio show. Be sure to make copies and save your work for reference purposes.

As a beginner, find free editing software that is easy to use by opting for an application like Audacity, Acoustica and  WavePad.

Though, the editing will depend on your own content and style. Some good practices to keep in mind are to edit out unnecessary or very long clips, create space between songs and sections using fades or music and do not leave more than a few seconds of empty silence in a recording.

Use Hosting sites and social media for sharing.

You can upload your final edited episode of Oil and gas radio show onto any platform that hosts audio files or radio shows. Then try to share it using social media sites, a blog, a website, etc.

You can also choose a platform for all sorts of audio by uploading your radio show to a well-known service like YouTube, iTunes and SoundCloud. These have large audiences for the potential to gain more listeners around the world.

More so, try a platform specifically for hosting radio shows, like Archive.org, Podomatic and BlogTalkRadio. They may have additional helpful tools to schedule the release of your episodes.

Pay attention to other radio shows in your genre.

You can listening to a wide variety of other radio shows of the type that you are interested in whether it is a talk show, documentary style, or music program. Try to notice the elements that other shows have to help guide what you would do in your own Radio Show.

Discover the things that another radio show does that keep you engaged and listening. Does the host give fun facts about the music they are about to play or just played? Are the interviews interesting and easy to follow?  Then, you can try to emulate these elements in your own Oil and Gas Radio show.

Likewise take note of the things in a show that make it drag or make you dislike it. Are there too many pauses? Is the host’s voice too monotone or too fast? Consider ways by which you can avoid these things in your own Oil and Gas radio show.