Myself (Bela Vasszlavik) working Newton Day.
At the start of my fourth week at Clear Channel radio
station I was really starting to feel like I belonged by working with the other
people in the office. I started to have a real connection with the others in
the office especially my supervisor Ricky.
At the beginning of the week I started by working on an
online promotion auction that the radio was doing to make money. The auction
was all about businesses that perhaps did not have the budget to advertise,
would give the station items that the station could sell on an auction site.
Once the items were sold for whatever money that was made, would
turn directly into advertising dollars for the business on the air. This auction
was going to go online so that people could bid on them starting Friday the 13th
and until the end of that weekend.
So in order to get this auction online however, there were a
lot of things that need to go right with it needing all the help it could get.
For myself I had a number of jobs that I needed to do to help get this auction
up and running.
First I started by taking the twenty-five or so different auction
items that were listed and getting pictures for each one. I was told to go through
Ricky’s email and look up the business and find the pictures that were sent and
save them onto the office file drive.
This was so that any computer could easily access the file
and picture quickly and easily without having to scroll through Ricky’s entire
email just looking for pictures. Sometimes for the pictures I had to also get
them off Google just to get the logo of the business in case they did not send the
station a picture.
I did not come into too much trouble along the way while I was
doing the work but it was long and tedious to do. Also at one point during the
whole process I had to go on the front desk once again.
For some reason it became extremely busy while I was working
the desk which made it extremely difficult to complete the work I was
presented. I had a number of listeners that won on the air that were collecting
prizes.
Strangely however I could not find them in the system and
had to frequently ask Ricky for assistance. One lady even came in looking to
get some on air advertising for her not for profit organization. I was so
confused what to do but just decided to go get someone that knew what was going
on.
After finding all the pictures for the auction on Ricky’s
email I was then instructed to take those pictures and upload them onto the auction
website. This was very easy and did not take too long either because of all the
work I had already done with the pictures.
Later I then was told to look through each of the items and
prof read all of their descriptions. This was another long and tedious task
that was given to me because there were a lot of mistakes that really need to
be corrected.
One of the descriptions was so bad that we had no clue what
was meant by it. Ricky actually had to
call the business and ask them to send a new description of their item.
Other than that snag the rest of the task went rather
smoothly and after doing this I was done working on the auction for the rest of
the week. My next task was ripping lottery tickets for future prize winners.
What I did was very simple and therapeutic I felt because
all I did was sit there and keep ripping lottery tickets in stacks of ten dollars’
worth.
On Saturday I was able to go to an event that the 103.7
radio station was going to do in Newton, NJ. The event was a huge block party
event in the town of Newton and in doing so was called “Newton Day.”
I arrived at the station at 7:45 a.m., to prepare and travel
to the town of Newton for the event. When we arrived in Newton we had to unpack
and set up the WNNJ table.
For the event we had a lot of the same things that we had
for other events such as a sounds system with speakers, a microphone, table cloth
that said WNNJ, and the comrex that helped us connect with the radio.
However
we also had two other things for this event that we do not normally have which were
a dunk tank and a helium canister for blowing up balloons.
The other people that also came to the event with me were
Ricky and DJ Borasio. Though I never participated in going into the dunk tank
Ricky and Borasio did.
The dunk tank was there to help fundraise for the Newton Volunteer
Fire Department. We charged a dollar for every ball that was tossed and a 100
percent of the profit went directly went to the Fire Department.
Everyone was thrilled and excited to throw the ball at
anyone that was in the dunk but more so for Borasio because they wanted to sink
their morning DJ. It was a lot of fun and entertaining and was very busy all
day.
We rose over $300 for the fire department in total which
they were so grateful for. I felt like I never stopped and kept working all day
but I was really enjoying myself and seemed that everyone else was having a
great time too.
During the last hour or so things slowed down and the dunk
tank was shut down due to lack of people wanting to get in the dunk tank
because it was so cold. However when there was not much going on I was able to
pick Ricky’s brain about how hard it was to get into radio, how I was doing
with my internship, and other questions that I was concerned with in relation to
the job or radio itself.
All in all the week seemed slow and tedious to start out but
really started to pick up at the end that I just loved.
Promotions Director Ricky Hoffend taking an unexpected plunge into the dunk tank
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