Radio Best Practices Project

In the Fall of 2005 the staff at KRLX-FM in Northfield, Minnesota began an overhaul of the then skimpy training materials used to educate upcoming on-air staff. Previously training had been primarily ad-hoc and informal, relyintg mostly on the immediate memory of staff at hand.

We decided to change this by writing a comprehensive training reference to be entitled the “KRLX Operator Handbook,” referring to the generic “operator” as opposed to DJ, newscaster, board operator, etc. Covering the basics of audio through the delicate process of selecting music for a themed program, it tackles in a thorough and sometimes entertaining way the basics of working in a top-notch college radio environment.

My work comprising roughly two-thirds of the writing and approximately one quarter of the editing work in this document as well as the vast majority of design and formatting that went into the finished product. Completed in the Fall of 2006, it has since been transferred into Wiki format and will serve as the foundation for future generations of Carleton College radio students.

Operator Handbook in PDF Link.