Saturday, October 24, 2009

DJ's at WPST (Week 4) October 23, 2009

The DJ's at any radio station are an important part of the station. At 94.5, the DJ's are very active. They blog, have social media sites and allow listeners to e-mail them through the day. They participate in charities and different live events for WPST. This is all on top of their radio hosting job. In this week's blog we are going to take a closer look at each major DJ at 94.5 WPST and discuss what they do as DJ's to promote themselves and the station, as a part of Public Relations.

As always WPST does their best to keep thier listeners happy, one of the ways they do this is their PST Loyal Listeners Club. To do so, you need to sign up and tune in to WPST at 8:20am, 12:20pm, 4:20pm or 7:20pm and earn points that can lead to great prizes. This is just another way WPST is getting thier fans involved and keeping their intrest with prizes and games. For the avid listener, this is just another reason to listen to the radio and earn free prizes during the week.

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THE PST WAKE UP CREW

The PST Wake up Crew consists of Chris Rollins, Tommy Jordan, Newman and Wendy McClure. They broadcast on weekdays from 5:30-10:00 AM. Each DJ has their own blog and participates on WPST's Facebook page. On the crew's website, they allow listeners to play games and enter contests. They also have a section called The Crew Cares where they tell listeners about the latest charity events the station and the Crew are taking apart of.

TONI RYAN
Toni Ryan is one of the main DJ's at WPST. Her radio show airs on weekdays from 10am-3pm. Toni also has a blog that she interacts with her fans and others; this can be found right off of the WPST web site. Fans may contact her through email and she will address them on her blog or over the air. If you take a look at Toni's blog you can also see that both WPST's Facebook and Twitter links are all over the place. So as a DJ with WPST, Toni uses social media to gain coverage for her company.


MATT SNEED
As do most of the DJ's at WPST, Matt also has his own blog and links for pictures. Matt has his own show at 3pm-8pm on the weekdays. Matt Sneed is very involved with the company as he has been with WPST for over 5 years now. He does all he can to give back to the community and participate in events to help better others, which WPST is known for. As you can see on Matt's blog, he looks for input from the fans and wants to know what they think. WPST drives to satisfy their listeners, and this proves it. Go check out Matt's page!


SHINN
Tom Shinn, most commonly known as "Shinn" is the night show DJ for WPST. Along with his hilarious sarcastic blogs about late night snacks, temperature and random comments about people wearing high socks with sandals, he also takes part in a night show from 8pm-12am. This is one of the most listened to sections of the show. He begins his show with the five most requested songs that PST played that day, and follows it with fun conversations with his interns and even discussing a fun video of the day that he posts on the PST website to keep the fun and energetic atmosphere of his show. He holds many contests to allow listeners to win prizes and also takes requests from many to play everyone's favorite songs. Shinn's show positively promotes PST because it shows the most fun side of the station. His show helps reach out to young teens as opposed to other DJs who mostly attract those in the work force, which helps have the variety of listeners that currently listen to PST.

WADE
While WPST is located right here in Princeton, Wade grew up in Trenton. Wade has his own blog just like the rest of the DJ's at WPST, where he loves talking about media and all diffrent things that are going on in todays world. He is every in touch with public relations and that shows on his blog, you can check out his blog by clicking on his name above. Growing up in neighboring town Trenton, Wade does his best to give back to the community and DJ's for sponsoring events around the communtiy.

Tommy Jordan

Tommy Jordan is a DJ who posts on his blog around a regular basis. This shows that each DJ does have a life outside of work and they are very friendly and sociable. Tommy writes various funny events in his blog, and listeners often comment on his stories as being funny, interesting or cool. All in all, Tommy adds yet another personality to the WPST DJ crew, and adds to the friendly atmosphere that they try to portray at the same time.


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