Starting out at 96FM couldn't have ran smoother with the aid of an office full of the friendliest people! On arrival it's rather intimidating exiting the lift into the reception of a radio statio - music blaring, famous faces plastered on the walls. But all fear faded as I became acquainted with the busy flow of radio station life.
On my second day we were given the new West Mate Magazine as The West Australian is working with 96FM to promote this new mens mag that comes out weekly in Fridays paper! So after having a chuckle at some of the articles we wrote up a script to play over the radio to make sure everyone was aware of this new liftout.
After reading it about 15 times and realising that West Mate Magazine in The West was almost impossible to say without stuffing it up we laughed it off and set off in the 96FM car to take the paper to the people (with bribery of course). Stocked with over 50 Brownes products in varying flavours and degrees of caffeinated goodness we called the station to record the cross amongst Perth's busy Friday morning traffic (hands free of course).
Setting up in Bunnings Innaloo, cause that's where all the men are apparently, we listened out for the cross and and within seconds of it playing people came running. I never realised people actually do this, but lucky for us they do! I was given the task of making sure we had enough photos for the social media and unfortunately ended up in half a dozen photos with the overly friendly tradies of Innaloo, one very hairy man in a hippie van who clearly just wanted free iced coffee and a grumpy little kid who didn't like the flash on my camera!
After another few stops and a busy morning of handing out newspapers we hopefully made Perth aware of this new mens liftout and made some peoples day with some free tickets. Then it was back to the office to upload all the photos and make sure the clients were happy with our promoting skills. But not without me accidentally standing in the way of James Hird and the Perth paparazzi chasing him down the street. I had no idea who he was even though i'd been looking at his face on the paper all morning, oops!
Loving the fast paced and exciting atmosphere of this great station and more adventures and incidents to tell in upcoming blogs.
