Radio Experience

I came to the University of South Carolina with my mind set on doing television, but a spur of the moment opportunity opened my eyes to the world of sports radio.

One of my friends, who was already interning with the SportsTalk Radio Network, told me they were looking for someone who could work during their High School Scoreboard Show on Friday nights. I was looking for some extra money, so I thought it couldn't hurt.

Well, that job turned into a two and a half year internship with SportsTalk, the number one sports talk radio show in South Carolina and one of just three shows in the country who broadcast to a statewide audience, and I enjoyed ever minute of it.

Right from the start, my bosses were very hands off and threw me into the fire. I made plenty of mistakes, but I saw my radio skills improve greatly. My broadcast voice got a lot smoother, slower, and more natural, and I figured out how to write for my voice, which came in handy when I started doing television work in my broadcast classes.

As a result, I got a ton of experience doing everything from being a fill-in co-host, producing the entire show (which involves setting up interviews and essentially running everything behind the scenes), all of the preparation that is required before the show, covering USC's football team, doing live reporting, and even recording and producing my own on-air segments.

Here are two of those segments previewing football teams in the ACC and SEC before the season this past fall.

Boston College
Arkansas