GI Radio Roundtable

Contents

Americans Like to Talk Things Over

For the Station Operator

• Getting the Right Participants.
• Picking a Chairman
• Producer, Writer, and Others
• Facts, Facts, Facts
• What is a good subject?
•  The program pattern
• Audience participation in general.

For the Writer

• Opening Your Program.
• Closing

For the Producer

• Some production details.

To the Participants

• Be consistent about names.
• Address people by name now and then.
• Re-identify the subject.
• Don’t drag out bits of paper to read.
• Don’t refer to the shortage of time.
• Don’t refer to “unseen listeners.”
• Don’t be “reminded” of a joke.
• Don’t get statistical.
• Tricks of argument.

For the Chairman

• Don’t try to settle it
• At the beginning of the program,
• When the discussion is underway
• At intervals
• When discussion lags or is blocked
• When a speaker is vague, abstract, rhetorical
• If a majority tries to squelch a minority
• If yours is an audience participation type show
• At the end

For All Concerned

For Information-Education Officers