It has been proven that the best way to learn is by actually doing. You could learn how to be a sportscaster or a DJ with on-the-job training if you get a mentor who is already in the radio profession. This allows you to learn the skills necessary in a real radio station, and also experience time on air.



The radio broadcasting industry has schools that train you to become a radio broadcaster, program director, voice-over artist, or promotions director. Assignments include in-studio lab training in an on-air radio station with equipment that is state-of-the-art. The radio program is taught one-on-one, in private sessions, in real radio stations with real radio professionals that takes each student through the course curriculum. No experience is necessary.

With the music business moving more and more online, it is vital to any up and coming musician to learn as much about the music recording side of the business as they can. Music recording schools were designed to impart all this knowledge and experience on an accelerated but flexible schedule so that even hard working musicians can learn more information. For example, they will learn how it is the music producer who guides and shapes the sound, while an audio engineer captures it.

Courses include a written curriculum and training guides. Some of the classes include: Voice and Speech Development, Commercial Announcing and Copywriting, Voiceovers, Sports Broadcasting, Writing News Broadcasting, Disc Jockey or Talk Show Host, and Weather Reporting.

Howard Parker is now making millions as a voice-over artist. He started out working at Taco Bell, but it was a recording school with a mentor program and school where he got his start.

"The mentor program worked. It put me with real radio pros, and so I stuck to them like glue and learned as much as I could," said Bell.

A tuition can even be funded by student loan program like Sallie Mae, which is the nation's leading lender for student loans. The costs for mentor recording schools run from $2,875 for one smaller school in Ohio, to $7,450, which is the best value and available in all 50 of the United States. Colleges or university music recording schools cost from $20,000 to $140,000. Students agree, they learn more when they get a mentor and in one-on-one situations, not in a crowded classroom. Most good mentor program carriculums take about seven months to complete.