On this page, are 3 examples that show my experience and proficiency in audio broadcasting.
The first is a published audio report of news stories that I anchored while I was creating for The News Feed NRV. While these stories were not written by me, this piece demonstrates my ability to read others' words in a fluid and coherent manner. It is from October 11, 2023.
The second is a miniature talk podcast assignment I created with Colleen Henneberry, where we discussed the financial and commercial failure of the Metaverse, and the difference between company expectations and consumer behavior. I also wrote a brief article to go along with the podcast, which is pasted to the sidebar. It is from October 27, 2023 and demonstrates my researching skills, improvised anchoring, and audio editing; as the podcast was recorded over Zoom.
The third piece on this page is an excerpt from my weekly live radio show "Gabe's Musical Map" on WUVT 90.7 FM in Blacksburg, Virginia. Over the span of 4 years, I had 84 shows where I developed my broadcasting voice, technical skills handing high-end industry-grade audio equipment, and balanced the output of music, with legal identifiers and requirements, and the inevitable flubs and technical issues that come with live broadcasting. While my radio work is my most informal, it is the work I am most proud of and I still cherish the community I was a part of while there. This piece is the first 60 minutes of a show I had on April 12, 2024, and you can view all my previous output through the WUVT website linked here.
ANCHORED AUDIO REPORT
PODCAST AND ARTICLE
The News Feed pocasters Gabriel Philipsen and Colleen Henneberry discuss why the Metaverse, the big virtual environment closely tied with Facebook’s rebrand into the company Meta, has entirely disappeared after less than 3 years.
The shutdown of the assumed 13 trillion dollar entity is one that does not have a definite single-point cause of death, but rather many disparate causes, failures and problems that created a whirlwind that suckered investors and gained lots of hype, only to disappoint everyone who bought in and prove skeptics correct.
What makes this a body worth dissecting is the night-and-day difference between expectation and reality, and as a cautionary tale for the rest of the Web 3.0 tech crowd. Facebook is still one of the most popular websites around, but the Metaverse could only muster up 38 daily users.
With Apple’s upcoming plans for VR and the extreme backlash to generative AI art and text generation, tune into this short podcast by Gabriel and Colleen to get an overview on how Facebook learned the lesson of novelty-based-products the hard way.
RADIO EXCERPT
(click the robot to view the web-stream on The Internet Archive website)
(click the robot to view the web-stream on The Internet Archive website)
