“You must be prepared, organized, bold as Radio,TV presenter”, Chinedu Madu, Purity FM
By Noahlyne Chinenye Onuorah
A Staff of Programme department, Radio Nigeria, Purity FM Awka, Deacon Chinedu Mmadu has told students that Radio/Television producers and presenters are organized, bold and prepared to flow with the guests and audience at all times.
Deacon Madu who is a presenter and a producer with Radio Nigeria pointed out that presenters and producers must never feel timid or intimidated no matter the personnel he or she has in his or her programme or show.
Deacon Madu was invited by Dr. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu to the Mass Communication department to enlighten the year1 students on the rudiments of the practice during his News Writing and Reporting on 13th of June, 2023.
Deacon Madu pointed out a student out and asked him why he chose Mass communication as his discipline, the boy told him, “I just wanted to study it”, he laughed and said that nothing happens without a cause.
Explaining that a “presenter” is a professional who hosts media programmes via radio , television, etc, Deacon Madu elaborated on the qualities of a good presenter, which according to him, a presenter must be a person who studies well, a great researcher and must be prepared for any programme hosted.
He added:” Any presenter who does not do this isn’t a good presenter; not being fully prepared as a presenter makes you and the program to be controlled by your guest, when your guest finds out you are not prepared and you do not know your onions, he or she starts manipulating you or seeing you as a nobody, the program will be controlled by him or her instead of you”.
The advantages of being a prepared presenter according to him was that, you as the presenter will be able to host the programme successfully without fear.
Deacon Chinedu also educated the students on the need to know a little bit of everything as a Mass communicator, a Mass communication has to know some basic things in different fields of studies, even as he said a good presenter must be able to have a good voice which can be heard clearly without a semantic noise too.
The students were also told to learn “_intonation_” more, inorder to give life to words and give it good rhythms. A good presenter must know how to pronounce words too.
Deacon Chinedu also defined a producer as one who plans, organises and administers media contents via radio, televisions, etc.
