Well, I did my first call-in to talk radio, hitting the Al Rantel show around 6:37pm on the topic of Amber Frey. I said that while it's obvious that she's an idiot, her greatest offense isn't that she's stupid, but that's she's boring. Her interviews are shallow and insipid and entirely unenlightening. I also mentioned that it's implausible to suppose that she never heard about Laci Peterson's disappearance until contacted by police. I suggested that Andrea Yates' next date would be smart to look her up on Google before getting too serious.
I really think I could do a radio talk show. Does anyone know how to break into that business? I can't afford to go be an intern somewhere... but I can afford to host a late-night or weekend show basically for free. Anyone have any connections?
You can buy open air time, most likely it will be at night, unless you have sponsors. Plus you have to get lucky. But I'll give you the advice that my father gave me:
"Don't go into Radio"
tP: I know you can buy it, but that's the reverse of what I want! I want to make some scratch.
There is no easy way to do it. It just takes some luck (ie. Ryan Seacrest). If you don't want to pay, you're gonna have to prove your listener base and have clients willing to buy ads for your time.
As far as making scratch...good luck, only the few like Rush can make it on radio alone. Notice how almost every other talk show host has another job or source of income, so you'll have to keep the programing side biz going.
Maybe you can get a spot on the weekend tech shows, like Jeff Levy.
Why not start with a call in show that you stream? Get some advertisers, turn a profit, and when your audience rises enough you can start charging other people to be on "blog radio".
TML: I don't think the internet is conducive to a radio business model. I think people on the net want to read and jump around, not listen to a stream of audio (or video). I could be wrong, but I never pay attention to those that already exist.
There is possibility in internet radio (some people are trying to make it work), more freedom in the programing a lot like FM radio was in the 70's, 80's, & early 90's before the cookie cutter radio took over. Now there is much less freedom to do new things or try stuff out over the airways.