1.) Your first step is always to determine the purpose of your show. What are your interests, hobbies, skills, and passions in life that will drive you into a real commitment to offer valuable information to your listeners? Please, whatever you do, don’t start an internet radio program on a topic that you aren’t interested in. Not only will you bore your listeners, but it wouldn’t be long before you got pretty bored yourself. No matter how unpopular the subject may be, if it interests you and you have a real passion for it, go with it! I guarantee there is someone else out there who is looking for a radio program on the topic you’ve chosen. Who is your target audience?
2.) You should also determine the format of your show. How many segments will you have in your program? Will there be sponsors and ads?
3.) Along with determining the format of your show you should develop an outline for production. As a producer, you are in control of how your program flows from one clip to the next. Arrange your program in such a way that makes sense to the listeners.
4.) Next gather all your media for the radio show. This could be audio clips, narration, promotional ads, interviews…whatever you desire to include in your program.
5.) Arrange your audio clips within your sound editing software program in the order as you wish for them to appear in your program.
6.) Add any special effects between audio clips such as “fade-ins/fade-outs”.
7.) Once you’ve mastered the whole show to perfection, you’ll want to export the final product as an mp3 file, which is one of the most compressed sound file formats you can use on the web.
8.) Now using your FTP client, simply upload your show to the web
9.) Check the URL to which your file is uploaded to make sure the sound file is audible and is playing back on the web.
10.) As you become more adapted to these first 9 steps, you will later begin to see how that “streaming” your show is important…and you may also want to learn more about the power of podcasting…
But for now…spread the word about your radio show to family, friends, and the whole world…and give yourself a round of applause!
You’ve produced your own internet radio show!
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About the Author: Demetria Zinga is a Navy wife, mother of one preschool age daughter, and a Digital Media Consultant. She developed the “Create Your Own Internet Radio Podcast” video tutorial series, found at www.publishapodcast.com. Both her faith and her newly developed niche for podcasting led her to start the The Christian Women Podcasters Network, found at www.christianwomenpodcasters.com.