Episode 54 brings me to a guest I have been interested in speaking with for a WHILE.  He tells me I pulled him out of a 5 or so year interview blackout so that is cool!  Steve Pigott is well known globally for his radio branding skills on the creative side and on the business [...]

We welcome Ricky Roo to the show.  Ricky is a talented producer currently based at KDWB and KTLK – FM in The Twin Cities, Minnesota.  Ricky has been producing radio imaging for years with a bulk of that for CBS in Dallas, TX.  Ricky is a very musical producer with a lot of parody and [...]

Here are the Ricky Roo Show Notes…

Sandy Beech, the Managing Director of Music 4 in London, joins the show.  Music 4 has grown to prominence in Radio Jingle production in London and across the U.K.  We discuss his history in radio which took him from Leeds to London and a few places in between including a Pirate Ship! — sort of. [...]

We continue with Sandy starting with Radio Jingles from the late 90′s mixed into the current Radio “1tros” We delve into many other aspects of running your own company and specifically jingle licensing, producing someone else’s logo and what its like to work in a pl;ace like Music 4. show23_2_033110

Steve Sykes joins the show this week.  He is a multi-talented producer who also does some voice work.  He is well known now for 2 main things.  Imaging Producer of WSLZ in St. Louis and Owner, producer at Hooks Jingles.  Part 1 is more general knowledge about Steve and radio imaging.  Part 2 is where [...]

Part 2 Continues with a lot of tech-speak.  We get into the studio setup, equipment recommendations, audio chain suggestions and software/plug-in talk.  Melody Sharp, Steve’s wife, also joins the show to discuss radio imaging voiceover and the benefits of being hooked up with a big time producer.  We also discuss jingle production specifically and how [...]

Steve’s Full “Hooks” Jingle demo…. SYKES- JINGLE SCOPE WHYI_TOH-HOOKS – Sample **REVIEW** SONAR-Gavan’s Producers Podcast Review Pictures!! Row1 – Sykes setup Row2 – Sykes Jingle Production Screen Caps Row3 and 4 – Sonar Screen Caps

TM Studios produces the jingles at KSCS but to give us a more creative spin on this heritage 4 note sound I started just producing and integrating the logo into promos, TOH’s and song intros.  It worked very well with a Justin Moore song (heard at the end) and I failed miserably with a Lady-A [...]

Chris Stevens, VP Creative at TM Studios in Dallas, discusses the world of radio production. He has a background in music and is also a well known imaging producer for stations all over the U.K. and other parts of Europe. This is Part 1 of 2 because we can’t shut our mouths and are both [...]

Chris Stevens, VP Creative at TM Studios in Dallas, continues our discussion the world of radio production. We discuss more radio stuff here but get into much more tips and tricks. It very cool to hear about this from someone who was brought up in a very different radio climate. Public radio rules over there [...]