Announce the Weather on the Radio

At a loss on how to give your listeners information on the weather? Read on.

Steps

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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