Week 5 6/16/14-6/20/14

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My penultimate week started off with an incident with a listener that came into the station a little perturbed.  As I walked into the station I was met by a woman that had an unhappy look on her face.

I preceded however to asked how she was and she just said not so good because she had missed the concert that she had won tickets for on the air. She also proceeded to complain that no one called her that her tickets arrived into the station for her to pick up before the concert.

Instead of me fumbling around with my words seeing that I really had no excuse for her to give because I am just the intern, I immediately got Ricky Hoffend to sort the mess out. Ricky got it sorted out and gave the woman tickets to another concert in the future.

After this great debacle I went on to do the work that was set up before me for the day. The first thing I had to do was take pictures from the Newton Day off my phone and onto the WNNJ website.  

It did not cause too much trouble or strain to get the pictures on the website, but it was just extremely time consuming. I also had to upload other pictures from different events on to the WNNJ website which was easier to do because they were already on the computer just need transferring to the website.

Following this Ricky instructed me to go on over to the paper utter and cut a bunch of the WNNJ flyers that had their logo on them. I also had to cut out other flyers for WSUS that read ways to meet the DJs of WSUS.

This task did not take too much effort but it was truly tedious and boring seeing that it must have been over two hundred flyers that I had to cut individually. I felt as though I were getting hypnotized because it just kept doing the same thing over and over again which took me over two hours just to cut flyers off.

After all of this mundane work, I went on over on remote to a deli in Hamburg which is a town not too far from the station. I went along with Ricky in the WNNJ car where we had the usual components for a promotion’s event.

When we got to the deli we met up with the store owner which led us to where we could set up. The reason why we were there primarily was because we were promoting the new game from the New Jersey lottery Cash for Life game. We were also handing out a punch of free scratch off lottery tickets from the New Jersey lottery as well.

Everyone that we encountered the whole time we were there were extremely friendly and thankful for having the free ticket they received.

Later in the week I had to call listeners of both WNNJ and WSUS that had won tickets for different events that were going down at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. The first event that I had to call people for was a Walking with Dinosaurs show that listeners had won tickets for.

There were plenty of winners that had to be called and I got a hold of all of them by either their answering machine or themselves. The second event that I had to call listeners for was a concert, and getting a hold of them came just as smoothly with no serious bumps in the road.

The only thing I found weird was the fact that the majority of the people that called told me that they had already received a call previously or that they had already picked up their tickets.

During the phone calls I was also asked to sit at the desk and presume the normal duties that went along with being at the desk. After the phone calls I had to print out a new label for an “enter to win” box for the “Circus” that I was going to use later for an event.

This event was called “Goches’s Garlic Run” which was in a town called Rockaway, NJ that was roughly about 30 minutes from the station. This event was a motorcycle run starting at the Rockaway mall and going all the way to Newark, NJ.

The motorcycle run was to help fundraise money for cancer children so that they could have a better chance at living life. For this remote site we packed all the regular essential items including an EZ-up canopy that we used over the table.

Ricky however did not come on this remote with me instead I went with a part-time promotion staff member named Branden.

It was kind of nice to have a change of pace for once and have to work with someone new. It was also nice because Branden was attempting to get into the same field as myself, sports radio.

It was great to hear about his experiences and the road that he was heading on so that I could see possibly what it’s going to be like for me when I hit the work force.

After setting up for the event however it seemed that Branden took advantage of having someone else work with him. While I was stuck behind the table talking to listeners and telling them how to win a free lottery ticket and put in for the “enter to win” box Branden just left the table.

He went around taking pictures of all the event and going to the different venders that were there. Even when he was there he did not help too much just mainly sat around in his chair that he brought with him.

Despite this however I did have a great time and it was great to interact with the other listeners. We also stayed to the very end to watch all of the motorcycles go by and leave for Newark.