How it all works...

Alright, so there were a total of 10 interns and the promotions coordinator made up a schedule of who would work what events. Each one of us were paired up with a partner. Sometimes you would work a show, a remote, or an event with just that partner of yours, or you may work with your partner and a few other interns, depending on if the event your working requires more people to help out. So you would meet at the station before the event and meet up with one of the three promotional assistants, your partner and whoever else is helping out. Then you would gather the stuff you need and head off in the point truck and go directly to the event and start setting up.
Throughout the term you and the other interns, along with the promotions coordinator, and promotional assistants would have meetings. This is to clear up the schedule, check and see if the scheduled interns can work, and if not, someone can fill in for you, and possibly go over things that need fixing or clearing up. So really the internship is in your hands and whether you want to follow the rules, work your events, etc. is up to you because most likely your doing the internship to get school credit. But if things do go wrong somewhere along the way, they can fire you. All in all, i had the time of my life with this internship and it was the best decision that i could have made!

This is angie and i... (one of the interns that i was paired up with for most of the term)

This is another intern, Kathryn, promotions assistant, Nicole, me, and Angie...

Its not always fun and games!

It may sound like your always having fun when interning, but thats not always the case. The head people that you are way far below under do have fun with their job, but they take on a very serious role as well. Because you have to remember were there to represent the station and people can't be thinking that all people do at the station is goof off and make jokes, because in between the lines, everyone has to stay focus and try not to screw anything up for anyone. As an intern your there to learn what the business is all about and to get an idea of what people do there to make their company work so well. So not only are you going to shows or events for the station, there are some scheduled days that you may be working in the stations office. This might be you working in the office doing work for the promotions coordinator or the marketing director by working the polls or gathering paper work for them, or putting together the prize boxes for them to take to the events, sitting in with a DJ to see what they do while their on air, to washing the stations trucks and sprinter van. Don't get me wrong while i did all these things, i had a blast. You just got to be on the same page as others, try to get along with everyone, stay on peoples good side, be yourself, and make sure you get your work done that they tell you to do and everything is just peachy.

Shows!

Here are a couple mobile messages... Below are two pictures that were taken directly from my phone when I worked a couple events.

This first one is at the 311 show at The Pageant
This second one is a picture of the band Staind, at Pointfest at UMB

If you want to be an intern...

In order to possibly be an intern for a radio station or anywhere else for that matter, there are a few simple tasks that should be made.
First of all find something that you might be interested in doing, maybe an actual area of work that you may want to pursue as a career in the near future. Take Promotions, for example, because thats what I am interested in. First going to the website of the company would be helpful because you can see if they are needed interns or not and either way you can send an e-mail to the main person of the field that you may want to work in telling them how interested you are in working with them. I had to contact Matthew Chambers, head promotions coordinator for 105.7 The Point. Attached to that you should send a resume and possibly a cover letter. It may take a little bit of time for them to respond back to you and if it does, an additional letter out of concern is of best interest. This will just show them that you are extremely interested in the particlar position. Then after that, all you need to do is wait for that phone call and hope that its good news!

Panic! at the disco concert

This is an example of a promotions event if your a promotions intern. I got the chance to work at the Panic! at the disco concert at the Pageant in the Loop. When setting up for an event like this one, you arrive about an hour or two before the show and have to hang up The Point's banners all over the place to promote the station and for the remaining of the time you just get to hang out with the rest of the interns. that you are working with for that day and other people who work for the station, while wearing a Point t-shirt to show off the fantastic radio station and get to watch the entire show and give a good impression to people on what great workers they have for their station! After the show you have to stand outside and hand out Point stickers to people who want one! Then after that you hop in the Point truck and drive back to the station to drop off a few things and go on home and reflect on the night you just had!

A closer look at some of the DJ's

Here are some of the very talented DJ's for 105.7 The Point that I got a chance to work numerous times with...

Cornbread

Thom & Jeff

Rizzuto

Getting in the know...

Being on the lowest end of the spectrum as an intern. you don't feel all that important sometimes. Although, with the people that I got a chance to work I did. The DJ's especially were amazing to work with. They treated us like any other worker and respected us and gave compliments and made us feel at ease. Never once did they downgrade, they always made you feel very comfortable and gave as much advice as possible, while enjoying your time spent with them. Each DJ had different things to say and had different personalities, so you got the taste of new things all the time.
A lot of times we would work with the DJ's at a remote and watch and learn what they would do and how it would be broadcasted from one area and it would be aired right away on the radio station.
*Here is a picture of the DJ cornbread interviewing the singer from Story of the Year on the spot.
*Here is another picture of Cornbread interviewing a member from Story of The Year.