-: My name is Bruce Warren.
I am the assistant station manager at WXPN,
a radio station here in Philadelphia.
So I'm the manager at the radio station
and my primary responsibility is to
produce,
create
content, both for the
radio station, the terrestrial radio,
all the digital and web content.
That entails meeting with the hosts,
going over the music they want to present.
Going over any special
themes that they want to present on the air.
Air checking them.
After they get done a shift,
I like to typically check in the hosts
and give them feedback or hear from them
how their shift went.
One of the things we do at WXPN is
we produce this national show called
World Cafe.
It's syndicated on 212 stations,
it's a daily, weekday two-hour show.
So we can have a band come in to the
radio station on a Monday,
record a session,
record four or five songs,
the host of the show does an interview.
We may want to turn that around for the
Wednesday broadcast.
So we have 24 to 36 hours to sort of
post-produce all that content.
Occasionally I'll get in there and actually
do some post-production
on some interviews.
I will select music for certain special
kinds of programming events that we're doing.
But mostly it's to sort of facilitate
all the ideas that either myself or
members of our team come up with.
I probably spend most of my time with the
World Cafe staff.
What bands are coming in today?
What time are they coming in?
Do they need back line?
Is the host ready?
Are the interview questions ready?
So I'll sort of spend my time
communicating with the team members
around all that stuff.
I've been handed a lot of different
in almost everything we do with the
radio station.
From program creation, production
budgeting, fundraising.
We're a public radio station so
we do fundraisers.
We go on the air.
I work really closely with our membership
staff on that.
I also work with our sales department.
And I also work very closely with our
marketing department.
So I make the cake
and our marketing team has to
tell people that it tastes really good
and hopefully they'll buy it.