Beyond Powerful Radio is a complete guide to becoming a powerful broadcast communicator on radio or internet! This how-to cookbook is for broadcasters who want to learn the craft and improve. This practical and easy-to-read book, filled with bullet lists, offers techniques to learn everything from how to produce and host a show, to news gathering, coverage of investigative and breaking stories, writing and delivering the commercial copy and selling the air time. With contributions from over 100 top experts across all broadcast fields, Beyond Powerful Radio offers techniques, advice and lessons to build original programming, for news, programming, talk shows, producers, citizen journalism, copy writing, sales, commercials, promotions, production, research, fundraising, and more.

Plus: Tips to assemble a winning team; to develop, build, and market your brand; get your next job in broadcasting, effectively promote your product; increase sales; write and produce commercials; raise money with your station; deal with creative burnout and manage high ego talent; and to research and grow your audience.

Never be boring! Get, keep, and grow audiences through powerful personality, storytelling, and focus across any format. Tried-and-true broadcast techniques apply to the myriad forms of audio broadcast available today, including Web radio and podcasting. While the technology and delivery systems change, the one constant is content! Listeners, viewers, and surfers want to be entertained, informed, inspired, persuaded, and connected with powerful personalities, and storytellers.

A full Instructor Manual is available with complete lesson plans for broadcast instructors - course includes Audio Production/Radio Programming/Management/Broadcast Journalism. The Instructor Manual is available for download here: http://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/instructor_downloads

About the Author

International broadcast consultant Valerie Geller is president of Geller Media International. An in demand speaker, Geller presents Creating Powerful Radio and TV/ Digital Media seminars/ workshops. She also coaches individual talent - on-air personalities and producers and works with newsrooms throughout the world. As a trainer/consultant, Geller, the former program director of WABC radio in New York, has worked with more than 500 stations in 35 countries. Her clients include the BBC in the UK, The ABC in Australia, CBS and NPR in the USA. Beyond Powerful Radio is her fourth book.

Reviews

What people are saying about Valerie Geller's Creating Powerful Radio

"A tremendous work!"
- Scott Shannon,
program director/air personality
WPLJ, New York


"This is the book I hope my competitors don't read.
It's required reading for my staff."
- Jerry Bell,
managing news editor,
KOA/KTLK, Denver

"If you want to understand what makes radio work, read this, then read it again."
- Jon Faine,
air personality,
774 ABC Radio
Melbourne, Australia

"It should be a textbook."
- Chris Berry,
general manager,
WMAL, Washington, DC

"If you want to achieve compelling radio and increase audiences, read this book immediately! Station 97.3 in London has experienced massive growth using its methods."
- Scott Solder
programme controller
LBC Radio, London

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- Keri Jones,
CEO/Radio Pembrokeshire
Wales, UK

"Making it in broadcasting takes more than just luck. Creating Powerful Radio is your 'Road Guide' to success in radio."
- Andy Vierra
program director
KNUU, Las Vegas

"This book will help your show get better."
- Al Rantel
talk show host
KABC, Los Angeles

"Wonderful."
- Paul Fisher,
vice president, Rogers Radio
Vancouver, BC, Canada


"Valerie Geller's first book was a triumph. It has proved to be an excellent primer for my staff. Valerie is an inspiration. If you can't get her for your station, buy this book."
- John Ryan, managing director
BBC Radio. Manchester, UK

"Creating Powerful Radio is a fine guide for people inside the radio biz and an explanation of that biz to people outside, including the people who would like to get in. It's the kind of book where the reader thinks, 'Oh that's why they do that.' "
- David Hinkley
New York Daily News

"This should be required reading in every newsroom and every radio station."
- Radio World

"Creating Powerful Radio might eventually make an executive's job at a satellite formatted affiliate much tougher."
- Professor Peter Hunn
Communications Studies Department
State University of New York, Oswego

"It's great. Read it!"
- Kim Komando
syndicated air personality

"I recommend it to everyone and I use it in my classes. I love this book."
- Jo Maeder (The Rock 'N Roll Madame)
air personality and instructor
New York University

"Packed with insights, well written, and fun to read. It's obvious why so many radio people consider this book 'a must!' "
- John Sawatsky, professor of journalism
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

"Brilliant."
- Phil Taylor,
BBC, Scotland


"Creating Powerful Radio contains valuable
tips and information for presenters, managers, and programmers."
- Julia Sullivan,
Music & Media

"Useful and practical."
- Jan Orskov, journalist,
Danmarks Radio, Denmark

"It's my bible!"
- Asa Paborn,
program director,
SBS Radio, Stockholm, Sweden

"We gave copies to the entire staff."
- Viktor Worms, Antenne Bayern
Munich, Germany

"Anyone even considering a career in radio should read this!"
- Adele Scheele, Ph.D,
Career Strategist, author: "Skills for Success"

"I want to take a moment to thank you for providing the perfect text, for my debut Seminar in Broadcasting class. The chapters and study guides were invaluable, and the students seemed to really like the combination of traditional teaching/interaction and in-studio 'labs' where they put the ideas from the chapters - about formatics, news, commercials, generator/reactor host teams, etc. - into practice. Although I also assigned a second text, Beyond Powerful Radio became the class bible. Much appreciated." --Rich Appel, Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall University and Felician College; Contributing Writer, Billboard

"If you have the desire for the work, this account will give the methods and professional standards that help succeed, wherever you are in your broadcast career, whatever your skills level, whether you broadcasting online or on air. This book will help you to develop strong personalities, create exciting internet content, write & present compelling news, become a powerful storyteller, build original programming, strengthen your interviews, show prep and air check effectively, work in multiple platforms, cover news emergencies, and much more. You will find there a Quick Start guide, the handy reminders, the proven principles of powerful radio, which are the core of the author's work. Valerie Geller is internationally acclaimed broadcast consultant and talent coach, she works with top stations and individuals."--NeoPopRealism Journal

"Valerie Geller has just saved me hours of time, maybe even days. People who are interested in launching a career in talk radio frequently approach me for advice and insight. This is flattering and I'm always honored and happy to help.From now on I can share a few keen insights and conclude with, "and before you do anything else, get a copy of Beyond Powerful Radio by Valerie Geller." Done and done! It's tempting to call Beyond Powerful Radio the bible of personality radio, but that's not quite accurate. It's more like The Boy Scout Handbook of personality radio, a practical guide with specific techniques for creating effective radio and managing a personality-driven radio station. While Beyond covers the waterfront, from hiring to voice technique to air checking to emergency broadcasting to promotion to sales to websites to research, the book is at its best when it's focused on Geller's real passion: Helping personalities create emotionally resonant spoken-word radio. At the core of the veteran consultant's philosophy is the importance of storytelling and her three cornerstone tenets: "Tell the Truth, Make it Matter and Never be Boring."--Radio-Info.com

"Based on the successful books, 'Creating Powerful Radio' and "The Powerful Radio Workbook," this combined edition provides even more methods for preparing and delivering powerful radio content. Valerie Geller explains the techniques of producing and presenting information, storytelling, news,talk and personality radio. New material is provided on: show prep, interview techniques, news, integrating radio and television, promotion and airchecking techniques."--Radiomagonline.com

"...the way the text is broken down, students can easily follow along, and all my students have really enjoyed your book. My students are not "book worm" types and just generally struggle with most academic reading. What I love about [this] text is every page is applicable to them, so when we discuss the text, I always ask the question, 'how can you use or apply this idea in your show?'" --Eric Matte, Associate Professor of Communication, Landmark College

Book Information
ISBN 9780240522241
Author Valerie Geller
Format Paperback
Page Count 536
Imprint Focal Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 780g