91.3 WUNH Durham II

Tonight was so fun on the station. I learned some stuff from the DJ Cullen on regular programming, but he had to go at six and the person who was supposed to be doing the 8-10pm Classical Connection show was sick and could not make it so it looked like I wouldn't be staying longer than the hour I'd been there, which would be a total waste, but luckily another DJ showed up to fill in.

This DJ's name was Jared. He doesn't have a show this semester and was out of practice. He said I could stay to train with him on the Classical show. We ended up co-DJing the show for the two hours and having a blast. Because he was out of practice, he made a lot of mistakes such as playing the track he was previewing over the air as another song was going too, or turning off the music for a second when he was showing me something, or allowing thirty seconds of silence only to realize (and explain over the air) that the music was playing through the studio headphones only because the output was wrong (then correcting it.) I got a lot of airtime, and actually picked out three tracks, leaving the last one a secret to see if callers could guess what it was from. No one called in, haha. The tracks I picked were the main titles from the soundtracks of Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, and the mysterious track was from Clash of the Titans.

I got to do just about every talk-back with Jared, as we both mis-pronounced the names of the classical composers and generally messed up. But it was still a blast, and didn't really matter because I'm not a certified DJ and he was just filling in! It was a good environment to get air-time in too, because there was no pressure to be perfect.

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