Radio Disney Meeting
Shayna and I went to her first meeting at Radio Disney tonight and she is now officially a Kid Caster. Elyse gave everyone free passes to an advance screening of "Dreamer" (starring Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell) this coming Thursday October 20th. The older two new kid casters will be "reporting" on the movie. What they do is after attending an event, movie, reading a new book that just came out, etc. they then write a review meant to be read on the air for 30 or 60 seconds. They e mail their review to Elyse...then they come into the studio to record...its edited...then thier spot is broadcast on the air on Radio Disney. Since Shayna is going to see the play "Finian's Rainbow" at Walnut Street Theater tomorrow, she volunteered to do a review of it. Elyse told us about what it was like when they meet & interview celebrities...sometimes they even get a photo with the celebrity and/or an autograph (one of the kids asked about the autographs). They also sometimes get to go to concerts. One of the older kid casters was there, Sam, and then later the other one Katie showed up. Both Sam & Katie are getting "too old" to be kid casters (they are teens about age 15 I think, maybe 16) so they are going to help the "new" kid casters and I guess eventually retire. ??
Then everyone left the boardroom and she showed us the studio where they record thier spots and where the main radio is broadcast from (the same as everyone hears- its broadcast out of Dallas- everything here is pre-recorded and then they put it in later). She played some samples of work both Katie & Sam have done...some of the interview Katie did with Hilary Duff and a review Sam did of the Wallace & Grommit movie. Katie & Elyse told us how they had to run to the interview with Hillary Duff and they were all sweaty ("my hair was all perfect when I got there!")...they only had 5 minutes with her and the guy was standing behind Katie holding up less fingers as the minutes ticked down.
After the studio she showed us her office and the wall with various celeb photos with Sam and Katie...from what I saw besides Hillary Duff was Backstreet Boys and the American Idol cast.
Elyse said that she will schedule one on one training sessions for each new girl with either Katie or Sam. They will learn how to do radio broadcasting!
After that everyone just hung out and chit chatted. Katie and Sam mingled with the new girls. I took these photos of Shayna with 2 of the other new kid casters (the 4th had left already): on the left is Sydney (Sassy Sydney) age 9, Shayna in the middle, on the right is Emily (Em the Gem) age 11 or 12.
Then everyone left the boardroom and she showed us the studio where they record thier spots and where the main radio is broadcast from (the same as everyone hears- its broadcast out of Dallas- everything here is pre-recorded and then they put it in later). She played some samples of work both Katie & Sam have done...some of the interview Katie did with Hilary Duff and a review Sam did of the Wallace & Grommit movie. Katie & Elyse told us how they had to run to the interview with Hillary Duff and they were all sweaty ("my hair was all perfect when I got there!")...they only had 5 minutes with her and the guy was standing behind Katie holding up less fingers as the minutes ticked down.
After the studio she showed us her office and the wall with various celeb photos with Sam and Katie...from what I saw besides Hillary Duff was Backstreet Boys and the American Idol cast.
Elyse said that she will schedule one on one training sessions for each new girl with either Katie or Sam. They will learn how to do radio broadcasting!
After that everyone just hung out and chit chatted. Katie and Sam mingled with the new girls. I took these photos of Shayna with 2 of the other new kid casters (the 4th had left already): on the left is Sydney (Sassy Sydney) age 9, Shayna in the middle, on the right is Emily (Em the Gem) age 11 or 12.
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