Okay this takes me back to 2012... when i enrolled for Journalism course. As I'd expected/heard, journalism is a very broad course with a variety of fields to choose from. The moment I walked in the radio journalism class early last year...my dear GOD... I was nervous as hell…I kinda thought that I was in the wrong place, everyone was talking about “vox pops” and as a newbie in the class I was confused not that I didn’t know what a vox pop was but because it was my first time to actually participate in one.
Few minutes after that, I felt warm and welcomed and suddenly that feeling of doing what you were born for and meant to do hit me. As a Radio junkie I felt deeply in love with the Media Production subject which was divided into two modules:Radio and Photo Journalism. (but i didn't really like photo-journ)I quickly thought of Makhosi Khoza, Alex Jay, Patrick Hayworth, Siyabonga Ngcangisa, Luckeez Mfowethu, Sizwe Saliso, Mzukisi Solani, Mark Pilgrim, Pabi Moloi, Ryan Seacrest, Bongi Mbelu, Poppy Ntshongwana, Luyanda "luks" Gidane, Kabelo "KB" Ngakane, Ndumiso Ngcobo, Lucky Sefatsa, Anele Mdoda, Dineo Lusenga, Stacey Norman,Ms Cosmo...Okay wait...whooooa...HOLD ON snaz!! Why do i feel like i'm such a hypocrite for mentioning all these people in one paragraph? well..YES, they might be competing for LISTENERShip but they all have one thing in common: Passion for radio!!!!!
I kinda feel bad for being a "traitor" or "radio slut" who listens here and there but i can't help myself because these Radio Personalities have shaped my career or should i say life? in one way or another. I fell inlove with radio during my teenage years but i never knew that i'd be THIS obsessed with it. It started when i was 15/16, while other kids were out playing/ meeting their boyfriends and girlfriends i was that weird lifeless girl who'd always have radio/stereo next to her.
At first it was all about the music...POP music and then their voices as they were talking i had like, my very own pictures in my mind on how they looked liked or what they were doing while presenting. But then as i grew older and older i realized that there was more to radio than that! There was this something really SPECIAL about it and the relationship between presenters and listeners (even though they would argue at times) was just too cute.
I noticed that the presenters could sometimes be LISTENERS and vice versa. I used to focus only on presenters but as time went by i learnt that it was a give and take platform because these people shared their experiences and advised each other.
Unlike TV, Magazines (oooooh i love them by the way,but that's a story for another day) and Newspapers...RADIO is NOW!!! and one doesn't need to be literate to understand it because in S.A we have more than 19 radio stations with all different S.A languages so it it's easier for people in all different age groups to access the happenings around them without having to read about it.
Radio's role is to inform,entertain and educate people and the people i've mentioned above have that in mind and i've listened to all of them and they've never disapponted me,EVER!
It inspires different people across the globe, it brings them together, makes changes in peoples'lives(big/small),it brings hope to the hopeless and knowledge and honestly i don't know where i would be without my radio because I learnt more about the course that i'm doing at the moment (Journalism) on the radio and Siya Ngcangisa was my inspiration.
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