Few professions are more stressful than broadcasting. One of the most common ways broadcasters sabotage their careers is by letting the stress of the business affect their performance. Broadcaster's Survival Guide describes several techniques to help on-air staff, producers, writers, news directors, and anyone in the business recognize stresses and deal with them in healthy ways.
The text is divided into two parts, licensing procedures and substantive rules and FCC structure. Topics include general application procedure, specific licensing procedures, local community involvement, FCC complaint, enforcement, and rule making procedures, programming regulations, commercial practices, technical matters and regulations, and the structure and organization of the FCC.
NEW, updated edition! Written by a teenager, this kid-friendly, inspiring book is filled with advice, tips, and strategies for how to deal with bullying. NEW, updated edition! Written by a teenager who was bullied throughout middle school and high school, this kid-friendly book offers a fresh and relatable perspective on bullying. Along the way, the author offers guidance as well as different strategies that helped her get through even the toughest of days. The Survival Guide to Bullying covers everything from cyber bullying to how to deal with fear and how to create the life you dream of having. From inspiring "roems" (rap poems), survival tips, personal stories, and quick quizzes, this book will light the way to a brighter future. This updated edition also features new, never-before-seen content including a chapter about how to talk to parents, an epilogue, and an exclusive Q&A with the author.
Complete with a news glossary, job searching tips and helpful web sites, this has everything you need to know about working in the television news business. It covers many newsroom positions, from assignment editors to producers, reporters and anchors.
An illustrated guide to surviving today's turbulent and challenging workplace from the authors of The Wall Street Journal bestseller The Boss's Survival Guide Forget the Australian Outback or the Amazon jungle-today's toughest survival challenge is the minefield we call work. It's impossible to "do more with less," especially with the looming threat of another reorganization, layoff, or other dramatic change. The good news is that you've got a new power tool for what ails you at work: Gray Matters. This inventive new book combines lively visuals, engaging characters, and impudent humor. But Gray Matters also offers hope and proven strategies to show you how to succeed at work today: how to sell successfully how to survive a layoff how to overcome the stress and pressure of today's frenetic workplace. Think Dilbert with a solution. Your tour guides are the employees of GlobalGadget: Gray Blanderson, a frazzled employee seeking a promotion; Rick Newman, Gray's nemesis; S. P. Chan g, a Gen-Xer and a wise soul; and Virginia Edgarly, Gray's boss who will do whatever is required to be the next CEO. A follow-up to the bestseller, The Boss's Survival Guide, this new book is a must for all managers in this turbulent work environment. This funny guide will help managers navigate change, improve morale and develop business strategies. WARNING: Gray Matters is addictive; get ready to laugh and learn.
The Indie Band Survival Guide (2008 edition) is a tremendous resource for musicians looking to record, distribute, market, and sell their music for less than most rock stars spend on green M&M's. Musicians and web gurus Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan cover every step of the process. With nothing but creative talent and the Web, they've gotten tens of thousands of fans for their band, in addition to being hired to write music for film, television, theater, and other media.
The creator of the award-winning blog Lost GenY Girl offers a business success guide aimed directly at college grads new to office life. Welcome to the corporate world, where things aren’t fair, some people are mean, and if you want to succeed, your boss has to like you. In Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties, Kayla Buell helps you prepare for the challenges and opportunities you’ll encounter as you leave college life behind and enter the work force. Navigating a corporate working world filled with pitfalls and traps is not easy – there’s no app for that. Should you speak up in meetings? Should you stay quiet? Should you eat at your desk? What should you wear? And what do you do when someone blasts you via e-mail? In Corporate Survival Guide for Your Twenties, Buell helps the early career professionals get their kick-ass career running!
Would you like to have a voice like a television anchor? Internationally recognised broadcast voice specialist and top-rated speaker Utterback has expanded her preeminent book on broadcast voice with this third edition. With over thirty years of experience in voice, Dr Utterback knows what it takes to create and maintain an effective broadcast voice. She shares with you the same advise she gives to clients from the major television networks, local stations, the Voice of America, CNN, Bloomberg News, The Associated Press, ESPN, NPR, PBS, and other television and radio stations throughout the United States and Canada. This book teaches you how to find your best voice, and how to care for our voice so that is still will last a lifetime. Earlier editions have been used in many newsrooms. They have also been widely adopted by such schools as the American University and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Today more than ever Open Broadcaster Software is being recognized as a valuable video production tool in the broadcast industry. OBS stands for Open Broadcaster Software, and it is the most popular free live-streaming software in the world. OBS is an open-source-software application, and the project is reviewed, maintained, and enhanced by a community of volunteers. Anyone can use it for free and also participate in its development using Github, Dischord, or other online collaboration tools. This guide has been written to compliment an online OSB training course available on Udemy.com. With this guide, the included online course, downloadable materials and a complementary audiobook, anyone interested in learning more about OBS should be able to advance their skills efficiently with these resources. The OBS suite is a versatile tool for recording video and live streaming. It can be used to record presentations, screen-capture sessions, eSports gaming, and much more. OBS can be used to capture and record video, with a robust set of tools for processing audio as well. OBS can eliminate the need for expensive internal capture cards with the integration of the NewTek(R) NDI(R), and it simplifies the process of screen recording and online streaming.
