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Radio and Television Careers in Art and Design

With the advancement of technology the field of art & design has become a big and one of the major industries that has created numerous job opportunities in the last few years. Radio and Television are few important sections of this art and design industry that has spread its wings and gained enough popularity in recent times. Actually, in the past few years, the demand of highly skilled and well trained professionals has grown at phenomenon rate. These days, radio has become an international medium for expression, and career profile like newsreaders, musicians, radio DJ’s has become few career options. Adding to this, television has also pulled the attentions of many aspirants.  

Kind of work in Radio and Television

Most of the radio and television jobs involve working in a studio. Jobs related to radio generally includes recording, editing, and writing local commercials and many more.. In addition to this, like radio stations, today TV stations also need a lot of people to produce programs like news shows, talk shows, and other public affairs programs. They require production workers to run cameras, edit, write, and direct programs. Thus, there is tremendous variety of work in both radio and television industry and for each responsibility a personnel is required specialised in specific field. Radio & television jobs may seem very fascinating and glamorous for mass, but it needs dedication as it usually includes long working hours.    

Employment in Radio and Television

Today there are over a thousand of radio and television stations in the United States. There are many different types of radio stations and music stations, that covers a wide range of music styles from hip hop to country to rock, providing plenty of scope for aspires in this field. Moreover, there are news stations that only report international and national news all day and night. Hence, whatever your interest is, you can surely find a radio station that could match your interest. Adding to this, there are many television stations as radio stations. This is a work area where one can look for variety of job profile, like providing support and background research as an assistant producer, selecting and assembling pre-taped video to create a finished program as a video editor or operating and maintaining the electronic equipment as a technician. Apart from all this, employers seeking other designations in the field of radio and television are Website or Internet producers, Radio announcer, Broadcast news analysts, News writers, Technical directors, Assistant chief engineers and many more.  

Salary offered

According to a Radio and Television Broadcasting Salary Survey report the median salary of a bachelor degree holder working as a film/video editor is around $40,000. Referring to the same report, news reporters can earn up to $26,000, while executive producer can get salary up to $102,500. On the other hand, news anchors can earn $42,500 and an executive assistant usually get $50,000. Apart from this, experience, strength of an organisation and location of the work place are factors that can affect the variations of salary offered in this field.     

Education requirement

If you are keen to step into this field then taking a formal training in broadcasting from a college, a technical school, or a private broadcasting school can be a great benefit. Today many universities in the United States are providing specialized training programs that are meant to prepare students to work with emerging technologies. For an example, many announcers earn a bachelor’s degree in radio or television with specilization in communications, broadcasting, or journalism.

In addition to this, many universities are also offering radio degree programs such as voice and diction, to help students improve their vocal qualities. Similarly, television degree programs provide knowledge of theatre, music, business, politics, sports and other subjects likely to be covered in broadcasts improve one’s chances for success. Special radio broadcasting programs equip students with good information technology skills of using computers, editing equipment or other broadcast-related devices.

Though career in radio and television appears to be exciting and challenging, but aspires should be ready for every demanding situation and must be able to work under tight deadlines. Making a career in this field in not difficult if you are determined and focused to your goal. At the same time, taking proper measures is equally important, before you enrol in the desired course.

Originally published here.


Subhash Kandpal

Justin Bieber Tickets for Justin Bieber UK Tour 2011

Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop-R&B singer. Justin Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun. His debut single, “One Time”, released worldwide in 2009, and peaked in the top ten in Canada and charted in the top thirty in several international markets. Justin Bieber has been nominated and awarded numerous accolades over the past few years, winning Artist of the Year at the 2010 American Music Awards, and being nominated for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, among others. Justin Bieber is considered a teen idol, and has been subject to acclaim from fans, opposite of criticism and controversy from matters concerning his popularity and image.

Justin Bieber was born on March 1, 1994, in London, Ontario and was raised in Stratford, Ontario. Justin Bieber’s mother name is Pattie Mallette. Mallette worked a series of low-paying office jobs, raised Justin Bieber as a single mother. However,Justin Bieber maintains contact with his father, Jeremy Bieber, who married another woman and had two children. Justin Bieber is of paternal German ancestry with his great-grandfather immigrating from Germany to Canada. As he grew, Bieber taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet. In early 2007, when he was twelve, Justin Bieber sang Ne-Yo’s “So Sick” for a local singing competition in Stratford and placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. She continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Bieber’s popularity on the site grew.

While searching for videos of a different singer, Scooter Braun, a former marketing executive of So So Def, clicked on one of Bieber’s 2007 videos by accident. Impressed, Braun tracked down the theater Justin Bieber was performing in, located Bieber’s school, and finally contacted Mallette. Mallette was reluctant; she remembered praying, “God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label!” However, after praying with her church elders and receiving their encouragement, she permitted Braun to fly Bieber, then 13, to Atlanta, Georgia, to record demo tapes.

A week after arriving from Atlanta, Georgia, Justin Bieber sang for R&B singer/songwriter Usher. Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher. Justin Timberlake was also reportedly in the running to sign Bieber, but lost the bidding war to Usher. Usher then arranged an audition with Antonio L.A. Reid of Island Def Jam Music Group, who signed Justin Bieber to Island Records in October 2008 “resulting in a joint venture between RBMG and Island Records”. At that point, Justin Bieber and his mother moved to Atlanta, also the home of Usher and Braun, to base his career. Braun became Bieber’s manager.

My World 2.0 is the latter of two-part debut studio album from Canadian singer Justin Bieber, and is his first full studio release. The album is the follow-up to the first platinum certified half of the album, which was released on November 17, 2009, via Island Records, and 2.0 was first released on March 19, 2010. It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making Justin Bieber the youngest solo male act to top the chart since Stevie Wonder in 1963. My World 2.0 also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, Irish Albums Chart, and Australian Albums Chart, and the New Zealand Albums Chart and reached the top ten of fifteen other countries. In June 2010, it reached 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.

To promote the album “My World”, Justin Bieber performed in several live shows such as mtvU’s VMA 09 Tour, European program The Dome, YTV’s The Next Star, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, Lopez Tonight, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, It’s On with Alexa Chung, Good Morning America, Chelsea Lately, and BET’s 106 & Park with Rihanna. Bieber also guest starred in an episode of True Jackson, VP in late 2009. Justin Bieber is often featured in teen magazines such as Tiger Beat, and has been labeled a “teen hearthrob”.

Justin Bieber performed Stevie Wonder’s “Someday at Christmas” for U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at the White House for Christmas in Washington, which was broadcast on December 20, 2009, on U.S. television broadcaster TNT. Justin Bieber was also one of the performers at Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest on December 31, 2009. Justin Bieber was a presenter at the 52nd Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010.

On June 23, 2010, Justin Bieber went on his first official headlining tour, starting in Hartford, Connecticut, to promote My World and My World 2.0. Justin Bieber performed a medley of “U Smile”, “Baby,” and “Somebody to Love” and briefly played the drums at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010. Justin Bieber guest-starred in the season premiere of the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, aired on September 23, 2010. On November 28, 2010 Bieber performed live on the X Factor, a musical talent show in London and received a rapturous standing ovation from the judges, who were Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole, as well as from the audience.

Justin Bieber announced in October 2010 that he would release an acoustic album, called “My Worlds Acoustic”. It will be released on Black Friday in the United States and featured acoustic versions of songs from his previous albums, as well as completely new song called “Pray”.

A 3-D part-biopic, part-concert film starring Bieber entitled Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, was released February 11, 2011, directed by Step Up 3D director Jon Chu. It topped the box office with an estimated grossing of $12.4 million on its opening day from 3,105 theaters. It grossed $30.3 million for the weekend and was narrowly beaten by the romantic comedy Just Go With It, which grosssed $31 million. Never Say Never is said to have exceeded industry expectations, nearly matching the $31.1 million grossed by Miley Cyrus’s 2008 3-D concert film, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, which holds the record for the top debut for a music-documentary. The film is accompanied by his second remix album, Never Say Never — The Remixes, released February 14, 2011, and features remixes of songs from his debut album, with guest appearances from Miley Cyrus, Chris Brown, and Kanye West, among others.

Justin Bieber is going to perform in UK in coming month. Justin Bieber Tour tickets are on sale now.

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Justin Bieber Tickets for UK tour 2011

Starting Date: Mar 04, 2011
Day: Friday
Starting Time: 18:30
Venue: National Indoor Arena

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