Eight-thirty to Five

This is a busy time of the year for the radio station. Even for little ol' interns like me! Because I am the promotions intern for the station, that obviously means that I will be helping with promotion!

Since this is my first full week at the station, I will be fully involved in everything going on a day to day basis. The beginning of the week I started in on promotions that are important for the summer and fall events here at the station. I am incharge of updating the Branson,MO attractions contact list. Once I completed half of the updates, later in the week, I printed out trade request letters to mail directly to the marketing managers of these businesses. If these requests go through to the department and get approved to go forward with business, this will provide the station with giveaways, listener promotional incentives, and other great uses. Another task that I completed everyday of the week was updating the obituaries on the internet of the morning and afternoon. Next week begins our Father's Day promotion and I had the duty of putting together the boxes required to accomplish this radio promotions.

This week was the end of the month so Wednesday, was spent doing the monthly billing/statements and being on hand to help during this hectic period of the month. Throughout the week, I spent sometime in the morning learning, watching, and helping with the Community Announcements and the Sunrise Reporter.

Here pretty soon I will start on one of my main jobs for the summer, which is preparing for the annual auction put on by the radio station. After this busy week, I am happy for the holiday weekend to go back home and see family! That way I am up and ready to go again on Tuesday!

Total Hours: 37.5 Hours

A Rude Awakening

6:45 am came to quickly Wednesday. I rolled out of my hotel bed to get dressed for the first day of my internship at Bartlesville Radio. Running out I grabbed a cup of hazelnut coffee to pry my eyes open. When I got to the station it had been up in running way before I was even thinking about getting out of bed! Lucky for me, I have worked at the station two summers before so the transition into the work place was pretty easy. Since, I have had the pleasure of working here before I immediately started work.
Halfway during the summer internship the lady that works at our front desk will be taking maternity leave. When this happens I will be taking over many of her duties. Some of those tasks include: the daily Sunrise Reporter, community announcements, answering the phone, obituaries, and possibly her jock-talk (I am not sure if I want to do that one). During this week, much of the time I spent being taught by her and helping with other duties. Not to mention the fact that I finished filing the papers in record time!
Also, I am very fortunate to work with some very fun and facetious co-workers, which will make this summer go by much quicker. I might even forget the fact that I am living in a tiny hotel room, well, maybe not. Enjoyed the short week!



Total Hours: 23 Hours

Schools Out For the Summer... not really.

I made it through Public Relations Campaigns, what an intense class! But I am not done yet, my last final is on Friday, May 14! It does not end here for me. School credit for a summer internship= class, which means a blog= homework! On the other hand, this will probably be the best class I will ever take, I pay some money to take a class and get school credit for making money! Internship, the who's and what's about it:



Business: Bartlesville Radio

Website: http://www.bartlesvilleradio.com/

Where: Bartlesville, OK

Title: Public Relations Assistant/Internship

Start Date: May- Week 16-21

Things on the summer agenda:

• Sunrise Reporter


• July Auction


• Representing the station at events


• Administrative work


• I am sure there will be a lot more for me to do when I get there!

I am looking forward to spending the summer out in Bartlesville, OK! I am excited about getting to put what I learned in all of my PR classes into action! Part of what I learned over my PR classes, especially my PR Campaigns class, is the Public Relations is NOT (I repeat, NOT) for sissies!

Enjoy your summer... you may find it helpful to spice it up with a little PR!