Announce the Weather on the Radio
At a loss on how to give your listeners information on the weather? Read on.
Steps
- Have your weather information in front of you. Obtain it from a reliable source such as weather.com and your local news station. You can cross reference them to make sure your weather is as accurate as possible.
- Read through your material carefully and fully. If you have many sources that you are collaborating from you may want to write a small script.
- When announcing or recording your weather segment have an announcing order. Normally you will want to announce today's, tonight's, tomorrow's and the weather right now in that order.
- Have an intro and exit line. Examples would be "Here's your weather radar forecast here on Oldies 98.3" and "This has been Grace with your weather; now back to some great music on Capital 95.8 FM, the sound of London."
Tips
- Downloading a desktop weather program that updates itself automatically can help you keep up to date on current outside conditions.
- Be sure that the first thing you announce is the stations name as well as any sponsors that may be underwriting the segment of news/weather. [Note: Some stations have the underwriting information pre-recorded to play before your segment, be sure to find out before you record your segment, or go on air to read.]
- When announcing, try to include the date before "tonight's" and "tomorrow's" weather.
Things You'll Need
- Internet access or something that you can gather information on the weather from.
- Basic radio studio
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