To the Connecticut School of Broadcasting students and families:
This blog exists solely to meet your needs during this time of crisis. Those who want to help will need to know what your specific needs are. This will help them to determine if they’re best qualified to lend their assistance.
A few suggestions for CSB students and their families, that may streamline the process:
* Please post your requests or questions in the comments section.
* Please be as clear, concise and specific in regards to your needs. For instance, if advice from a veteran broadcaster would be helpful, then post something like “seeking advice from a veteran DJ (talk show host, newscaster, sports broadcaster) about interviewing without having completed CSB.”
* If you are requesting someone within the broadcasting industry contact you about meeting your specific need(s), you may want to consider leaving just your e-mail address. This will allow you to screen all respondents.
A message to the Broadcasting Industry Experts:
This is a great opportunity for you to share your area of expertise with aspiring broadcasters and their families, who have truly been dumped upon.
If you are in a position to offer your time, talent, or resources free of charge, I’m certain that would be greatly appreciated. Your time and talent is valued, and you may not be in a position to offer anything completely free. That’s understandable.
At the very least, I would ask you to offer the CSB students and their families a reduction in your normal prices if you’re offering demo tape/reel services, or some other labor-intensive service.
A few suggestions that may help CSB students connect with you:
* Be as specific as possible regarding what you’re offering – including prices, if applicable.
* Please be as specific as possible regarding your availability. Many of these students need assistance ASAP, while others may be willing to wait.
* I would ask you to not fill your plate with more than you can handle within the time frame you promised. No need to add to the CSB students pain and frustration.
* If you are currently in the industry, please refer your colleagues and other professional friends to this blog. There can never be too many helping hands.
* Please post whatever services you are offering in the comments section. How much contact information you leave is your prerogative.
DISCLAIMER: This blog is simply an attempt to be an intermediary between stranded CSB students and qualified service providers. I have not, and will not, enter into any financial arrangements with service providers.
As the owner of a broadcasting school and the TVandRadioJobs.com website, my only intention is to harness the resources and contacts available to me to bring a measure of relief to the CSB students and their families.
All comments will be moderated, and only those pertaining to CSB students will be approved… so if you’re selling speakers from the back of your station wagon in a Wal-Mart parking lot, no need to ask why your ad wasn’t approved.
*** Any advice on improving or streamlining this blog would be appreciated. You can reach me at brdcstr@gmail.com
5 Comments
Will there be any placement services available to those students who have graduated? I live in South Florida.
Michael, I notice that the original founder of CSB is trying to purchase the Florida and Connecticut CSB schools from the bankruptcy court. I’m guessing he will buy them back and make his job placement services available to you. Keep an eye on the news for that one.
BMG students have a built-in advantage when it comes to job placement, since they are training inside of local radio stations. While training, they are developing relationships with other broadcasters and key decision makers.
Relationship is the key to getting your foot in the door.
Without relationships in the business, you’re unfortunately approaching the issue of job placement from a position of disadvantage.
Good luck to you.
I’m an alumni of CSB from 1989, although I never did want much to do with radio, I really wanted TV. But, back then, the studio in Farmington wasn’t digital and didn’t have the equipment they do now.
So, I went back in the late 90’s, about ‘98-99 for more training in the video field. If it wasn’t for a very nice video tech from CBS-Boston who came down and spent the day with me in the studio, I wouldn’t have fallen in love with editing.
I spent almost a year after that teaching myself video editing. When I had my demo and I felt I was ready to look for work, I approached the person for job placement. She took my resume and told me she’d let me know.
I NEVER heard back from her. And, when I did call her, she asked for it again, the only lead I got from her was a volunteer job avail through some cable video studio out of New Britain.
Now, I’m not a teenager and I do have bills to pay. I need an entry-level position, not a volunteer or internship.
Don’t get me wrong, this is a good school, but they lack accreditation, so anybody who does graduate, has to take on an internship first before landing a job. Again, that works for the young adults, not the older ones who need a real job. And, alot of stations don’t look at CSB as a real school. So, my resume’s landed in the trash can most of the time.
I think they need to gain proper accreditation through the state to be taken seriously and work up better contacts through the stations and video houses for entry-level positions.
I need a job and I love to edit, especially with AVID, but I can’t do an internship.
Now that csb is back in operation how are those students in Austin. Texas who were promised signed paper of life time use of facilities is going to be help? after borrowing a large amount of money and cannot practise what they have interest in
Ebenezer – I’m sorry to hear of your experience with the Connecticut school of broadcasting. They’ve left an awful lot of innocent people stranded and out of luck, in terms of honoring their promise of lifetime use of their facilities.
The best advice I could give you would be to contact the Atty. Gen.’s office in Texas and voice your concerns with them. They have consumer affairs divisions that will likely apprise you of the bankruptcy status of CSB. I know that students in other states have been getting refunds, but I understand that was contingent upon how far along in their training they actually got.
Sorry I couldn’t have been more helpful, but it’s a legal mess that’s a bit beyond my area of expertise ( even though I did dress up as a lawyer one Halloween)
Michael