Dan D'Uva
Director, Public Relations and Broadcasting | Trenton Devils
635 South Clinton Avenue | Suite 407 | Trenton, NJ 08611
p: 609.599.9500 x115 | f: 609.599.3600 | c: 201-739-8970
For my first interview I talked to Dan duva, who is the Broadcaster and Director of Public Relations and broadcasting for the program “Along the Boards,” which is a program for the Burlington Community College radio station WBZC.
I was able to contact Dan because he went to my High School and he was well known for creating the Sports club called, Ridgewood High School Sports that broadcasted and covered almost every sports game at the school. I got his number through the school and help from contacting my mom and brother who live in Ridgewood. I then got his email address and got the interview from there. This interview was used for my actual station profile and I learned so much information on his show and he was more than willing to give me as much time as I wanted after I said I was from Ridgewood too. He explained all the production aspects and basically the entire creation and everything involving his interview show on the Trenton Devils hockey team. He had all the knowledge on the show and in my paper I was able to describe that the show is a interview show owned by the NJ Devils who signed a deal to have the show on WBZC and to be located at Cheeburger Cheeburger for promotion. Since the fans targeted by the show and cheeburger cheeburger were both families.
Dan Duvas job is to broadcast the show, he has a crew that helps him setup the equipment for the interview show at cheeburger cheeburger and there he asks team players and the coach to come in and he conducts a live interview with them about the team and games. His main job is to run the program in a content and technical sense; such as he decides what questions to ask and when to run commercials and he controls it using an audio board fixed to a computer. Dan Duva started his career in high school by creating RHS Sports and he had a lot of experience leading up to this career, such as getting a communications college degree from Syracuse and Fordham University and interned and worked at several radio studios as well. Also he worked for the yes network all before getting his own program at WBZC. He likes that he has his own broadcasting show and that it involves sports because he likes sports and wanted a career in communications and he gets to be paid for working and conducting the interview show with actual players live. Also he gets to control the content and pretty much the entire show, so he is happy that it is his own program as well and he gets to run it, except for the Station head, Brett Holcomb who has control of the overall programs live feed. He didn’t say this but he likes the free food and milkshakes that come a long with working out of cheeburger cheeburger and the location of the show since it costs the program nothing to produce at cheeburger cheeburger since they are sponsored and paid by them to run the program there. Aim sure he would like to be paid a little more than 22 thousand dollars a year, but he seemed happy and content with his wage. He did mention some of the liabilities as getting a larger broadcast range for the show and other local stations, or larger sports stations like the Philadelphia flyers in the area as posing competition. He mentioned that to pursue a career in this field it is important to first get a college degree and get as much internship and as much experience under your belt as you can. Also he mentioned that in the future he would like to have a deal to produce the show again at cheeburger cheeburger and the expand the coverage through central Jersey and mercer county, but he also said that success has come from streaming the broadcast through news technologies, like the internet and pod casts (ipods). So he is excited and feels the show will expand and he believes his show is going to be around for a long time.
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