Television and Radio Announcing 10th Edition
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Contents- 1. Announcing for the Electronic Media
- The Announcer for the Electronic Media
- Employment as an Announcer
- Education and Training
- Checklist: Courses to Build Your Career
- The Announcer's Responsibility
- Spotlight: Broadcast Ethics and the Announcer's Responsibility
- Practice: Practicing with Equipment
- 2. The Announcer as Communicator
- Principles of Effective Communication
- Interpreting Copy
- Checklist: Analyzing Broadcast Copy
- Analyzing Punctuation Marks Used in Scripts
- Marking Copy
- Verifying Meaning and Pronunciation
- Reading Aloud
- Conveying Interest in Your Material
- Spotlight: Learning to Sound Local
- Talking to the Listener
- Getting Background about Authors and Copy
- Employing Characterization
- Practice: Analyzing the Delivery of Professional Announcers
- Practice: Effecting Mood Changes
- Practice: Talking a Script
- Ad-lib Announcing
- Practice: Ad-lib Announcing
- Checklist: Improving Ad-lib Announcing Skills
- 3. Voice Analysis and Improvement
- The Importance of Voice Improvement
- Speech Personality
- Analyzing Your Speech
- Voice Analysis
- Voice Quality
- Breathing and Breathing Exercises
- Spotlight: Improving Your Voice Personality
- Common Voice Problems
- Practice: Achieving a Low Pitch
- Practice: Varying Your Pitch
- Practice: Varying Your Tempo
- Practice: Working on Nasal Resonance
- 4. Pronunciation and Articulation
- Variations in United States and Canadian Speech
- Causes of Mispronunciation
- Pronunciation
- Phonetic Transcription
- Spotlight: The Debate over Standard American Speech
- Articulation
- 5. Audio Performance
- Audience Rapport
- Microphone Fright
- Microphone Consciousness
- Performance Skills
- Checklist: Preparing to Perform
- Practice: Gauging Your Own Performance
- Checklist: Evaluating Audio Performances
- Spotlight: Breaking into the Announcing Field
- 6. Video Performance
- Audience Rapport
- Microphone Consciousness for Video Performers
- Camera Consciousness
- Instructions and Cues
- Performance Skills
- Checklist: Evaluating Television Performances
- Spotlight: Feature Reporting as Storytelling
- 7. Commercials and Public-Service Announcements
- In-House Production of Radio Spots
- The Announcer's Role
- Analyzing and Marking Commercial Copy
- Recording a Commercial in a Studio
- Spotlight: Tips from a Voice-Over Pro
- Radio Public-Service Announcements
- Television Commercials
- Checklist: Making Effective Television Commercials
- Practice: Delivering Radio Commercials and PSAs
- Practice: Producing Your Own Commercial
- Practice: Delivering Television Commercials
- 8. Interview and Talk Programs
- Talk and Interview Shows Today
- Principles of Effective Interviewing
- Tips for Conducting Successful Interviews
- Checklist: Becoming a Skilled Interviewer
- Spotlight: The Art of Interviewing
- Radio Talk-Show Hosts
- Hosting Television Talk Programs
- Practice: Interviewing
- Practice: Interviewing for Radio News
- 9. Radio News
- Anchoring Radio News
- Checklist: Writing Effective News Copy
- The Radio Field Reporter
- Spotlight: Philosophies of Radio and Television Journalism
- Preparing Feature Reports: Minidocs
- Checklist: Recording Interviews Successfully
- Practice: Reading News Copy Cold
- Practice: Rewriting News Copy
- Practice: Performing Commercials on the Side
- 10. Television News
- Television Reporters
- The News Anchor
- Spotlight: A Representative Television News Operation
- Weather Reporting
- Practice: Comparing Local and National Newscasts
- 11. Music Announcing
- Popular Music Announcing (DJ)
- The Realities of Music Radio Today
- Showprep for Music Announcers
- Spotlight: Showprep Is Everything and Everything Is Showprep
- Popular-Music Station Formats
- Announcing Styles
- Preparing for a Career as a DJ
- Checklist: Improving Your Popular Music Announcing Style
- Practice: Tracking Rate of Delivery of DJs
- The Classical-Music Announcer
- Checklist: Polishing Your Classical-Music Announcing
- 12. Sports Announcing
- Working Conditions of Sports Announcers
- Interviewing Athletes
- Sports Reporting
- The Play-by-Play Announcer
- Checklist: Becoming a Better Play-by-Play Announcer
- Checklist: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Enter an Announce Booth to Call a Game
- Spotlight: Plea to Radio Sportscasters: Give Us the Details
- The Play Analyst
- Practice: Play-by-Play Announcing
- Practice: Getting Athletes' Names Right
- 13. Starting Your Announcing Career
- Preparing for Your Career
- Checklist: Assessing Your Career Potential
- Job-Hunting Tools
- Finding Job Openings
- Spotlight: Surviving Career Changes
- Applying for a Position at a Radio Station
- Interviewing for a Job
- Joining a Union
- Going Where Your Career Takes You
- Preparing a Scannable Résumé for Today's Standards
- Checklist: Format Tips to Maximize your Visibility
- Practice: Drafting Your Résumé
- Practice: Checking Out the Job Scene
- Appendixes: References for Broadcast Performers
- A. Scripts to Develop Performance Skills
- B. Phonetic Transcription
- C. American English Usage
- D. Suggested Resources
- E. Suggested Internet Resources
- Credits
- Glossary
- Index
Television and Radio Announcing 10th Edition
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