Radio has been used in the United States for many years to inform listeners of all ages about various topics. One group of kids decided it was time for more radio shoes focus on young people. What's amazing about this station is that it's run mainly by children, some of them as young as 7 years old.
Radio Buzz thinks that the community's young children should learn to take responsibility for the content and persentation of their shows.
On a quick visit to Buzz's studios one evening, I found about 50 kids from the ages of 7 to 17 working on differrent parts of their regular evening shows called "Kids Rule the Airwaves". The sound engineer was an experienced 10-year-old, Mike Philip, who has been "working" at Buzz for two years.
When listeners tune into the daily shoe, they are pleasantly surprised by the quality of the program-only technically, but also in terms of the variety and range covered. Children ever younger than her have learned to be storytellers (mostly sharing original work they have written themselves) and comedains for the "Luagh A Minute" spot. The show airs live, so there can't be any mistakes!
Like a nervous parent just before a piano recital, Steve admits that there ia rally nothing to worry about. When he first started working with the children, he thouht they too should have been nervous. But over the years it has been observed that children respond very positively to their new roles and gain a huge amount of self confidence. They carry out their tasks very professionally and even keep the adults around on their toes. While I was interviewing Steve , he suddenly said, "I'd better get down to Studio 3 as we're about to go on air." He had been given the signal to go by 9-year-old program manager, Dan Stone.