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ABOUT: Radio Babe/Dawn E. Scire
Dawn E. Scire (pronounced seer'-ee) wrote a popular weekly column in the "Florida West" section of The Sarasota-Herald Tribune from mid-1999 until late-2007.
She didn’t start out as Radio Babe (obviously!). In fact, Scire had no formal or specific telecommunications training during her life, nor was she particularly enamored of the subject when it came time to write about it, but, apparently, neither was anyone else at the Herald-Tribune. So, when offered, she took it as a challenge.
After several informational columns published, people began writing to her. Queries ranged from seekers of long forgotten disc jockeys to those searching particular programs in present locales.
As well, other, less-specific ramblings posted, such as: ‘Why isn’t my radio playing?’, and, ‘Why don’t I get reception inside my house?’ and, ‘Have you heard that new song all the stations are playing- what is it?’—with others equally vague and bizarre. Scire’s instinctive smart-alecky nature was the perfect foil, and her cheeky question-and-answer format was born.
Her then-editor Joel Welin (presently a features editor at a Louisville, Ken., publication) and she brainstormed for days before he thought up the clever “Radio Babe” name.
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ABOUT: Answering Questions
Radio Babe ONLY answers questions IN PRINT. (Please make a note of it!) She does NOT accept phone call questions, only mail or email.
Why? R.B. cannot answer questions on-the-fly because each answer requires research – and some require lots & lots of research! (In fact, sometimes even after "lots and lots of research" R.B. finds out from diligent readers—[typically AFTER printing, mind you]—that the research [and she] were wrong!)
Questions are answered in Radio Babe’s perfectly un-patented, unscientific methodology. Each goes into a large ‘Question Pile,’ and if it’s been asked by someone else, the similar ones are mated together and moved to the top of the pile; if it or one similar has been answered in the past year, it’s mated with the answered ones and moved toward the front; otherwise it goes on top.
Those nearest the top are most answer-worthy in order of :
a) Difficulty to find an answer—although that might also INCREASE interest;
b) Interest—might others want to know? Could researching the answer be interesting, too?;
c) Relevance to anything current—or not—sometimes that doesn’t matter. However, questions may sit until something else ties it in;
d) Responses from sources—sometimes people don’t return calls/emails for long periods.
e) Sense—some questions are too nonsensical to even answer, you’d agree if you saw them!
f) Answerability—NOT the same as “Difficulty finding an answer.” Some questions just cannot be answered! They are mysteries: information too far gone; people involved have died; stations no longer exist, etc. Look for these on the radiobabe.com forum where others can take a shot at the answers.
Radio Babe has answered all manner and level of questioning in broadcasting mediums, formats, etc., regarding shortwave to vlogs, web- and sat-casting technologies, even delving into television stations and personnel, although she does remind audiences that her focus remains vocal communications.
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ABOUT: Radio Babe's Work
Radio Babe reports on the Sarasota/Bradenton (73), Tampa/St. Pete (19) and Fort Myers/Naples (#62) radio markets encompassing 78 FM stations and 49 AM stations for a grand total of 127. (Correct as of June 2007)
Neither Radio Babe or any newspaper has an ‘all-in-one’ program guide listing every shows on each one of those radio stations – no such thing exists… (Well, technically, something of that nature DOES exist—it is several inches thick and costs thousands of dollars for subscriptions to those in media circles, but even that is only updated MONTHLY despite DAILY industry changes.)
That said, the answer is NO, Radio Babe cannot tell you verbatim what programs are on a radio station at a given time!!
Radio Babe receives information from industry insiders (aka employees), DJs, friends of employees or DJs, and ex-industry employees, her reader/listeners, radio historians, book authors, and other columnists, for instance. | |
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