Media Release

Mangaluru, Jan 30: Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, St Agnes College (Autonomous), here on January 28 organized a one-day workshop on Radio Jockey.

Errol Gonsalves, Radio Jockey and Music Scheduler at 92.7 BIG FM, in the city was the resource person of the day. “I am still a learner at Radio Industry. As an RJ with nine years of experience, I still have many things to learn.”

Sr Dr Venissa AC, vice-principal of the college presided over the programme. In her presidential address, she said, “There may be many job aspirants in the industry, but what the employers seek is skill sets and qualities along with the degree. St Agnes College has been preparing the students with such skills for the competitive industry."

Errol spoke on the different qualities needed to be an RJ like reading habits, ornamentation of words, creativity, placing the right word in the right place, commitment, spontaneity, observation skills, fluency in local and state language, knowledge of software and computer. Speaking on the scope of an RJ and trends in the radio industry, he enlightened the students about the benefits of being an RJ like anchor, resource person, radio elements. The workshop included job opportunities in the radio industry and radio station personnel like station head, sound engineers, production director, programme director and Radio Jockey.

He played different radioelements like stationality, show bumper, take it easy, celeb wishes, nemonic, advertisement, promo, liner, station endorsement and celeb bytes. He gave an insight on earning details of RJ in metro and non-metro stations and stated that an RJ is a full-time paid job. He also spoke about the importance of voice modulation and the voice of the audience. “Your college marks do not matter to be an RJ. What matters is the passion to be an RJ.”

The session began with ice-breaking games and activities. He also interacted and clarified the doubts of the students on the radio and gave them opportunities to perform as RJs. Through demos, he showed them how to speak like an RJ. Muskaan, Ankitha and Jennifer students from I, II and III years respectively were awarded gift vouchers for actively participating in the session. Soniya of III BA compered the programme. Journalism students from I, II and III BA, Deekshitha Prashanth, faculty member and others were present at the programme.