I used to persue such jobs, but the time involved to get just one radio voice over job for 100-200 per month is simply not worth it. I have focused my company to mainly commercial voice over. Every onece and a while I get the request from a PD and I will usualy do it on the cheap to help them out and even throw in whatever odd creative I can come up with on top of the copy they send.

Radio Imaging - Like many other faccts of the commercial radio industry is simply changing and evolving. Will it still exist 10 years from now - yes - just at a different capacity. Same as jocks and every other faccet of the industry. Will they all still exist. - Yes, but in differnt capacity than yesterday or today. The more one can evolve with the industry the better off they will be.

Likely there will be an even bigger push for creativity on raido commercials that stand out - and not so much on the imaging. If the creative types can move into this realm, they will survive. However many of my friends get bitter about this subject and refuse to re-mold themselves around the changing medium and simply get out of it.

Tony
http://www.bestradiocommercials.com

My written English is not so good so I write in German:

“Lieber den Spatz in der Hand, als die Taube auf dem Dach.”

Yours sincerely
Köln

Josh, I love you.

Here is another interesting tidbit that I read today that puts some spring in my step, but shows that SAG is really just waiting to see how the members of AFTRA voted on their contract. This will foreshadow the outcome of a SAG strike vote.

FROM CONTACTMUSIC.COM:
SAG LEADER CALLS STRIKE TALK “A DISTRACTION”

Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg on Sunday called talk about the possibility of a strike “a distraction” even as the SAG contract with the studios and television networks approached its expiration at midnight tonight (Monday). “We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorization vote by the members of Screen Actors Guild,” Rosenberg said in a statement. However, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers indicated that much of the industry had already shut down while negotiations with SAG dragged on. “The AMPTP has made four major guild agreements so far this year, and there is no reason we can’t make a fifth and final one with SAG and get the town back to working at full speed,” the AMPTP statement said. But it is generally believed that no agreement is possible before July 8, when the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is due to announce the outcome of a ratification vote on its deal with the AMPTP. Hollywood SAG leaders have been campaigning among members who also hold union cards in AFTRA to vote down the deal. On the other hand, should AFTRA members overwhelmingly approve it, SAG’s leverage at the bargaining table would likely be weakened.