WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0)

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For half a century, WJPZ Syracuse has been the greatest media classroom on the planet.

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We've trained students from the 1970s to the 2020s on how to run a professional radio station.

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But the lessons learned and relationships formed go far beyond studios and transmitters.

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Taking a look back through the eyes of those who experienced it.

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This is WJPZ at 50.

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Welcome to WJPZ at 50.

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Today is a bucket list episode for me because I'm so excited to have today's guest.

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They are the current GM and PD of WJPZ, Bella Galan and Lizzie Gottlieb.

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Lizzie, also, you may remember, if you were at Banquet, this year's Locke Award winner.

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So congratulations there.

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And welcome to you both.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Thank you so much for having us.

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We are so, so excited, obviously.

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Obviously, we love Z.

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So we were so excited that you asked us to be on the podcast today.

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I want to get to a lot of different topics with you.

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And especially the current culture of the station, because I think that really came through both in your speech, Bella, at the alumni meeting on Saturday in Syracuse.

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And then also just talking to your staff, the record turnout for especially freshmen at the banquet.

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There's so much I want to get to.

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But let me start with backstories and where you're from, how you got to Syracuse, how you found the station.

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Lizzie, let me start with you.

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S… Speaker 4 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yeah, so I'm from outside of Philly, kind of in that right in between of almost to New Jersey, but still very much a PA girl.

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I grew up doing a lot in the theater.

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And what I've noticed, especially now that I am here at Syracuse University, is that a lot of people have gone through that theater and music and high school pipeline to then being broadcast journalists.

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And so that's where I really was like, I want to blend my passions between the performance element, but also being able to write and being able to like go use all these different platforms.

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And so that's when I knew like, oh, this is a career path that I want to pursue.

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And now I know even more that I want to work in music.

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So that's why I got to Syracuse and how I got to Z89 was because I met Grace Dett and I actually remember one of the like orange preview days.

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So before I started here on campus, it was like a month or two before her school year ended.

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I went up and got to meet her at like a preview event in the Dome.

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And it was really exciting to learn about Z89 and again, get that blend between broadcast journalism, music, and just, it had the whole package for me, for sure.

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I was going to hit on this later in the interview, but you're teeing it up for me perfectly.

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If there was one thing that I would scream from the mountaintops to freshmen and anybody joining the station, look, I worked in radio for 15 years.

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We all know the current state of radio.

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It is not what it was.

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And 25, 30 years ago, a good chunk of people at JPZ were probably going to get into radio.

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And now they're few and far between because there are few and far between with jobs in the industry.

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But I think what's amazing about JPZ, and you just hit on it, Lizzie, is it teaches you a skill set that you can use anywhere you go, whether you're on air, off air, whether you're learning to talk 20 seconds over a song intro and explain something clearly and concisely.

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Or, you know, and then, of course, you know, the relationships and managing a staff, as you're both doing right now.

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But the communication and the interpersonal, like, dynamics, I think no matter what you do, the station is so valuable for.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Absolutely.

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I think the biggest thing for me is just learning how to communicate, going on the air and knowing that you've got to talk for however amount of time and you just kind of have to go off of what each other is saying has been such a valuable skill that you can take with networking.

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You can take if you're going on air for a news hit.

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It's just been there's so many valuable experiences here.

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Bella, let's get your back story.

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Oh, yeah.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Well, I'm from Wayne, New Jersey, as a lot of WJPC go up.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Oh, my gosh.

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Can you run through just off the top of your head the list?

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Because there's a lot.

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There's too many to count, but I'm honored to be a part of that legacy.

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That's for sure.

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Yeah.

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I grew up as a competitive dancer and also competed in pageantry.

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So not officially theater.

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I've made my way to theater since then, kind of, on the outskirts.

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But, yeah, I always grew up, again, loving performing, loving being in front of people,

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loving to talk to people that I definitely build that skill when I competed in pageantry

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and was going on interviews and doing community service.

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I just knew I loved going out and meeting people and hearing their stories.

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So when I was time to, you know, I was in high school participating in a lot of different clubs

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and extracurriculars, I was really fortunate to have a great communications department there

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that had a TV station that did the morning announcements every single morning in the form of a news broadcast.

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So I.

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I.

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started kind of getting my foot in there, created my own podcast. And I just knew I wanted to go

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into the multimedia space in some way. So when looking for broadcast journalism majors and

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looking for schools, Syracuse was the top of the list. And I said, I have to go there. Like,

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there is nowhere else that I can go. And when I stepped on campus to do a tour, I just knew

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immediately that that was it. So I applied early decision. It was one of two schools that I applied

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to. And I knew I was like, if I don't get in here, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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What was the other school? It was Bryant University, because it was the only other one that had early

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action. Everybody else regular. So I was like, if I get if I don't get into Syracuse, then I'll apply

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and like figure out what else I'm going to do. But I'm going to like really put all my eggs in that

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basket. But Bryant is great, too. But I can't imagine being anywhere else than here. So then,

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yeah, I came here kind of very similar to Lizzie. We got involved in a lot of the same organizations

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as soon as we got here. Like many of the freshmen do was in way too much doing a million different

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things, but very quickly realized that there was just something so special about Z89. And I wanted

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to get involved as soon as I could. So it was thanks to that current executive staff that was like,

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yeah, just do a DJ shift, get cleared. And you know what? Apply for exec. It will never hurt.

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And I did and applied as the web director and was the web director from my freshman spring into

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sophomore fall, which was great. And I learned so, so much. And being able to go to that first banquet

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was genuinely life changing. I did not know what to expect at all. And very quickly realized,

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again, just how special these people were and how much of a family it was. And like you guys were

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mentioning before, it isn't just about going on the air as a DJ, going on the air as a radio host.

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It was all of the skills that you learn surrounding that, which has then kept me here,

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obviously now sitting here as the GM, former VP of ops. And now being able to teach that to like

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the new classes and the new generation of Z89 has been so rewarding. And I could not be more grateful.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

So you're both seniors, class of 26?

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Juniors.

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You can't get rid of how much this guy.

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How is that possible?

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You're both so accomplished. How is it possible you're only juniors?

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yeah, junior. We came in the same year again. Like we pretty much do everything together.

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We also are roommates.

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So it's like, we do all of it together. We do stuff at Citrus, stuff here. We were both on red carpet

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rapport. Both love theater. So we're like attached at the hip and want to do more of that

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entertainment lifestyle, more lighthearted.

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I think our big difference is she's more the Broadway route. Love Broadway.

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She wants to pursue that route. Whereas I'm like music.

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But it blends perfectly. It blends perfectly.

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What I love about doing this podcast is the stories that echo throughout the years.

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You two being so close, living together, running the station together.

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Off the top of my head, I'm thinking of a couple dozen like pairs that I've interviewed in the

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podcast that have just become so close and together through the station and so on.

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So it's nice to see that still alive and well. Lizzie, tell me about your path to the station.

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

So very similarly, fall of 2023, getting trained as soon as possible because I wanted to get on air

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and this was the quickest way to do it. But I remember going into like the station for the

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first time, the studio, and seeing the colors of the board. I was just so amazed at the equipment

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that Z89 had access to and figuring out that, oh, you're actually going to be doing this within

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three weeks and know how it works and you're going to go on air. So amazing.

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So I did a DJ shift that I am still a part of to this day.

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Chloe Breeze and I, we started that as freshmen and it's still going very strong.

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And we've brought in other underclassmen along the way and been able to mentor them as well.

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But that DJ shift is so, so important to me. It was also on the morning after for a semester and

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

that was some early mornings for sure. What is the morning after for alumni who don't know?

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So the morning after is a Sunday 9 to 11 morning show that just kind of, you know,

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it's been a long weekend. Maybe you were up doing a lot of fun activities. Let's bring it on

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back down. Let's manifest for the next week coming up and look ahead to what we've got.

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

So it's a lot more chill music to get you started on your week again. So you don't get those Sunday

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

scaries for sure, but it was a lot of fun. What about the, um, uh, the regular DJ shift?

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Is that just regular JPZ, Z89 music, or is that especially?

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yes, that's just the, you know, the 24-7 WJPC music.

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

As the PD, I'll ask you, so if you had to ballpark,

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I don't need an exact number, but like, of the shows on the air,

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percentage-wise, roughly, how much is this traditional CHR Top 40 format

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versus specialty shows, if you had to just guess or ballpark it?

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

About 75% is your Top 40 music,

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and then 25% is those specialty shows that still have some bleed

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from the Top 40, but get more nitty-gritty into the niche genres, for sure.

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Forgive me for getting on my soapbox for a second,

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but the thing that's going to really save radio is personality-driven radio

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and giving your audience something that they're not going to get on Spotify

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or Apple Music or YouTube, and I think you're exemplifying that

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with what you're doing at the station.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yeah, I would 1,000% agree, which has been the greatest part about having a PD

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that's as open to collaboration and new ideas as Lizzie,

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is we've brought in two new shows into our programming within this year,

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one in the news department, one in the music department,

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one of them being my show that I just added a brief intermission

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about all the things theater in Central New York,

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not just on Syracuse University's campus.

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We really branch off into the other areas of Central New York as well,

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getting people in from the national tours of the Broadway shows

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that are stopping at the landmark.

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We just did an interview with Dylan Knight-Weaver,

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who was the lead in Book of Mormon on the national tour,

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and he went here and graduated three years ago.

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Awesome.

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So having people like him come in, but then also the regional theaters

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and community theater has been a really, really great way

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to bridge the gap between us as Z89 on campus,

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but then also being a radio station that is for the greater area of Syracuse as well.

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But then adding in House Arrest, which is our brand-new music show

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we added this semester, which all EDM and house music,

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which is extremely popular right now and has been doing really, really well.

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And just being able to collaborate and be open to those ideas

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and having students wanting to share their personalities

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and their passions and things they're passionate about,

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that's what is the most important to me.

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I know when I was pitching my show at first, it was like,

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I don't know, might be too niche.

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I don't know if that's our brand.

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And I was like, guys, if it doesn't work and it flops, we can cancel it.

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It's fine, but I think we just got to try.

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Like, there can be something really special here.

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And, I mean, I ended up becoming a finalist for International Broadcasting Championship,

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International Student Broadcasting Championship.

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Again, House Arrest being led by someone who was a finalist for best on-air host.

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Like, we know we have the talent and the ideas here,

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and we want people to feel open to being able to share those and really express that,

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which I think has been really, really special this year.

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yeah, I think my viewpoint on it is, if you don't try it out, you're never going to know if it works.

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And I would rather people try these things when they're able to, when we are in college,

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than when you're professionally down the line and there's a lot more roadblocks in the way to trying out these new things.

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So, if we're able to try a house music show, let's do it.

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I'm open to it.

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You have an idea.

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Let's see it to fruition.

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And so, I'm glad that we've been able to get these new shows in, get more interviews that are happening in the local area.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yeah.

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We have more coming up.

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Don't worry.

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Yeah, we have a lot.

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So, just branching from Z89 to Syracuse University, but to also all of Syracuse area.

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There are a lot of alumni that are very happy to hear that because I think there are,

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sometimes it gets lost of just focusing on the campus and then expanding to that whole,

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that's always traditionally in 50 plus years been a big part of the radio station.

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You're also kind of transitioning me to my next question, which is Z89 as an entity.

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Maybe 30 years ago, pre-social media, early days of the internet, it was a radio station.

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It was an FM radio station at 89.1, which it still is and still sounds terrific.

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Credit to the two of you and your staff.

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But you're talking about interviews and you're talking about social media

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and you're talking about having, you know, an influence on central New York

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and then also talking to people in the community.

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It seems the last 10-ish plus years that WJPZ and Z89 is more of a brand than an FM radio station.

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Can you talk about that a little bit?

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Yeah, I think when Lizzie and I were just talking about this too,

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just even like the slogan, you're a party station.

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And if there's, we want to update it or change it.

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And I feel like that really just encapsulates us so well as to what we do.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

It's just like Z89 in and of itself as a brand is a party.

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It's fun.

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We want people to be able to, again, talk about the things that make...

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them light up because that shows in the talent shows in the topics they're talking about if i

15:05

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was forced to talk about something that i did not like or had very little interest in it would be

15:12

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very different than when i would go on red carpet report and we would just be able to i don't for

15:17

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

lack of a better term just bought out about like the harry potter teaser that just came out like

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

it's focusing too on just what makes people light up because when you're watching it or when you're

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listening you can hear that and then i think talking about the social media aspect of our

15:33

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branding that we've been really trying to push forward this year as well with a lot more of our

15:37

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vertical content it's clipping the parts of the shows also that we know other people are going to

15:43

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enjoy or those other niche communities that will then be able to find that clip and be like oh i

15:48

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

like their hot take on that i like what they said about this let me follow them to see what else

15:52

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

they're doing so making it less about yes it's always about the music like we always are we're

15:58

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still our music first will always be music first but it's also just finding ways to get people to

16:05

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

really see themselves in z89 beyond just the music yeah and that part of like it's a party so yeah

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

there's going to be music at the party and we're going to have the hits you want to hear but the thing

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

about a party is everybody's invited and so you have the news we have sports we have the music

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specialty shows and because of that i think that your party station z89 there isn't necessarily

16:29

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in my mind a better way to describe what our station's goal is and that is being able to try out

16:37

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

social media try out doing press for concerts being able to interview people live on air and bring them

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into the studio and just getting that full picture experience and it having a party yeah and i like

16:51

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

what you just said too is just like a party is different for everyone my definition of a party

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may not be the same as lizzie's it might not be the same as yours so it's if your party is edm house

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

music great if it's wanting to listen to an hour of just country music like great that's what we have

17:07

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

the hour hour for like we have different things for ever it could be sports we like obviously our

17:13

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

sports department does extremely well if that's your version of what you want to like listen to

17:17

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

at a party we have it so i think it's just finally like embracing that and realizing it it'll look

17:22

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different for everybody but at the same time it still falls under this one umbrella of just like

17:27

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wanting to have a good time and just being your true authentic self so this is your third year there

17:32

S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

which i still can't get over i assumed you were both seniors because you're so well accomplished but

17:36

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who are some of the mentors when you got to the station that have helped you out along the way

17:41

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

there's so many there and i know we share we share a lot um and they've definitely gotten more

17:47

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

the longer that we've been here one of the first for me um what the first person that actually told

17:53

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me to join z was former gm patrick chambers who let onto his dj shift when i had no one else to sign

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up with he was like you know what just me and victoria who was the former vp of business uh she was

18:05

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

like they were like just come on to ours and i was like really like you're asking me a freshman who

18:10

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

just got here to join you you guys are on exec like what do you mean you're inviting me to be

18:14

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

on your dj shift so they definitely helped me like in that transition but i also had a dj shift with

18:20

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alana and work extremely closely with her and have always looked up to her as not only just a mentor

18:27

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but just as a role model of like what it looks like when you put in so much love and passion into

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the projects that you have such like a strong desire to like make successful um so seeing her

18:41

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basically do everything that i wanted to do i was like okay it is possible like i can do both i can

18:46

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do z89 and citrus i can do hard news and entertainment reporting like she was kind of that big

18:53

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inspiration for me and i know she definitely was for you too yeah she was for a lot of the same

18:58

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reasons but alana was the girl that trained me to be able to be a station member here and she ended

19:05

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up being my citrus tv mentor as well so you know i utilized her for everything and a lot of questions

19:12

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about z89 for sure and i remember you know asking her about when i was applying to be music director i

19:18

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wanted to know everything there possibly you could know before going into it because i wanted to make

19:23

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sure that it was good for me i love music but like what is this role and she was so helpful and being

19:30

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able to understand like what actually would go on with that but she just wow she has so much passion

19:36

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for what she does and it absolutely so so evident and even now as programming director i will text her

19:43

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for questions for help she we earlier this year there was the 2016 throwback kind of trend going on and

19:53

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

we worked together to come up with some ideas for maybe liners of like is this 2026 no or no

20:00

S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

It's 2016, actually.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Nice, okay.

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So being able to work together and be able to pick her brain,

20:06

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because she was the programming director,

20:07

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she was the music director,

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and I look up to her and how much time she put into the station.

20:13

S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I feel like she was here like midnight to midnight every Friday,

20:19

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programming as much as she possibly could.

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

But also, like Alexa and LaMalfa,

20:24

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we were both on Red Carpet Report together.

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Me, Bella, Alexa, and a bunch of other people.

20:31

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But she was our lead host,

20:32

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and I looked up to the way that she was able to engage with our discussions,

20:38

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lead them, and end them,

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because we did have, I think, six people on our show?

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At one point we did, which is like crazy.

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Which is a lot of people and a lot of voices that want to be heard,

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but she did a great job of making sure that everybody's voice was heard,

20:52

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and we're not pushing like an insane amount of time

20:56

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to get everybody in.

20:57

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So now that I'm the lead host of Red Carpet Report,

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I know that I got to make sure everybody is heard,

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and that it's not just rambling and we're having a good discussion.

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So I looked up to her a lot with that as well.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

How do you do that?

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How do you channel your inner Elvis Duran

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and call on different people at different times?

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S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

It's a lot, because you're looking at the timer and you're like,

21:19

S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

man, we got so much to talk about.

21:21

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And then, you know, you're trying to think while someone else is saying something.

21:25

S… Speaker 3 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

And it's just, you know, over the years, you kind of just gain like the intuition to know,

21:32

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you know, you've worked with your people for a while,

21:34

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that you know how to bounce off of each other very quickly.

21:37

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And you know when it's kind of time to start wrapping up.

21:40

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You're like, all right, I think we're saying a whole lot of nothing right now.

21:43

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Like, I think that means it's time to wrap it up.

21:45

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

And again, like, that's the beauty of being able to join shows,

21:49

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

like, say, your freshman year.

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Like, I joined Red Carpet Report my freshman spring

21:53

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

and then was able to do it all the way until I started doing a brief intermission.

21:58

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

But it was by watching the older, more experienced members,

22:01

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

by joining previous DJ shifts of people who were on exec that I honestly just like sat there and watched.

22:08

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Like, I don't think there's any other way to learn besides getting in and doing it.

22:13

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

It's just watching the experience people just getting to do it.

22:16

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

And I feel like for me, as someone who originally came in,

22:19

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just being like, I just want to be on air.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

That's it.

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S… Speaker 4 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I don't really care.

22:21

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

And then now I'm sitting in a more administrative role

22:24

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

and more business side of things as the GM.

22:27

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I never thought that that was something that I was going to do or, like, could step into.

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But then being able to then meet all of the incredible mentors that we've had here

22:39

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

and then getting to get closer with people like Grace,

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who, when I first got here, I was like,

22:44

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

OK, she's the GM and she's so professional and she knows how to, like, run a business.

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I don't want to.

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S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I don't.

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I can't do that.

22:51

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

So then now becoming really good friends and like how you text Alana about PD stuff,

22:56

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I would text her all the time leading up to banquet,

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leading up to any sort of event that we were going to have.

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What do I need to know about X, Y, Z?

23:04

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

So being able to see how you can wear multiple hats in the station as well

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and take those skills that, say, you learned from being on air as a regular host

23:14

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

to then becoming the lead host to then even working with other people on your team

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on exec has been really helpful.

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

And again, all due to the people that came before us.

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And now we're just passing it on to the next.

23:27

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Which I want to come back to in a second.

23:29

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I don't know if I've interviewed a single GM on the podcast, Bella,

23:32

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

that walked in as a freshman expecting or even conceiving they might be GM.

23:36

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

So you are in good company.

23:37

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

But for alumni that, you know, may not be as close to it as, you know,

23:42

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

some of the more active alumni,

23:43

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

what are some things that are in your purview, I guess, as GM

23:47

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

that might surprise alumni?

23:49

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Like, what are some of the things that you're dealing with day to day,

23:52

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

week to week, month to month?

23:52

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

I think the biggest thing for us has been trying to obviously keep the history of the station alive

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

because obviously that's why we are still here and why the alumni network is so strong.

24:05

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

But also still trying to incorporate new ideas and update the station in a way that it still feels fresh

24:13

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

and new and highlighting all of the different facets of the media industry.

24:18

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

Like we talked about before, the way that Z89 is run now is not the same way that it was when it first started.

24:25

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And one thing that was really big for me and that I mentioned a lot during Banquet Weekend

24:31

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

was just highlighting the people that may not want to be on air either and may not want to be on the day.

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And giving them those opportunities to join teams like our web team, our press team, taking photos,

24:44

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

becoming associate producers, which is a brand new role that we started,

24:48

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

where I started leading when I was VP of Ops and then continued now as the GM,

24:53

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

of having two members, one that's helping the social media manager live tweet, post stories.

24:59

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

He's in real.

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time and just helping whatever they need help with in the show and then the other one being

25:04

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

more of the audio ap that's taking the show after it's done and editing it into podcast format and

25:11

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

uploading it as a podcast because obviously podcasts are extremely well really they are i

25:18

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

had no idea um but then adding those positions as well to just give other people an opportunity to

25:24

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

be in the station besides just their one dj shift a week besides just their one show that they were

25:30

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

here for people coming in and out because that's what i noticed people were doing they got here five

25:35

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

minutes before their show as soon as their show ended they left and they only talked to people on

25:39

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

their show but there's so many people here at the station that you don't even realize are in the

25:44

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station if you're not crossing paths with them at the same time so finding ways to just get more people

25:50

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

in the station has been a really big goal of ours that i think has been working really well since

25:56

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

adding some of these new positions and giving more people off-air opportunities in addition to

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S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

you know the traditional dj or hosting if you listen very closely you'll hear every former pd and gm of

26:07

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

the last 50 years silently applauding right now because it's getting the folks in there it's making

26:12

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

that connection and i noticed this in your speech to the alumni association saturday afternoon bell and

26:17

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i said this to you in person and i'll say it again for the um for the benefit of the podcast listeners

26:22

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

everything you're describing which you also described in your speech about making everybody

26:25

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feel welcome making it a community which is just so welcome to hear for those of us who've been here

26:29

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

for 50 some odd years i think both of you i guess it's you bill in person but i can tell you too

26:35

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

lizzie to talk to both of you both of you have a really high eq and i think that serves you very

26:40

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

well in your roles that you have a good sense for reading people understanding what motivates them

26:46

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and i don't remember if it was you lizzie or was somebody else on the exec staff that they actually

26:50

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

told me at banquet we want to run through a brick wall for bella i don't remember who it was that told me

26:55

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

but somebody actually that's awesome that makes me so happy y'all i don't want them to do that i

27:01

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

don't want them to actually do that it was one of your exec staff i i i wasn't sure who it was

27:07

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

i can't remember and i apologize to whoever it was i don't remember off the top of my head who it was

27:09

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

but ask at your next exec staff meeting and ask who told jag you'd run through a brick wall for me

27:15

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

but um it came through in your speech it came through in interacting with both of your banquet

27:20

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

obviously um obviously lizzie you winning the lock award speaks volumes about your eq as well

27:25

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

i just i just want to give you so much credit because there are a lot of us watching and listening

27:30

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right now who are like 20 21 like i don't know half of what these people know at that age like

27:36

S… Speaker 2 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

the fact that you are able to really you know interact with and motivate your staff is certainly

27:42

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

a credit to both of you thank you no and again it really just comes from the people that were doing

27:48

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

that for us and again i've been in that position before where i i remember what it was like walking

27:54

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in freshman year being scared out of my mind being like i don't belong here i don't know what i'm doing

28:01

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

i just feel like i've kind of just landed here by accident and i kind of like not hid myself but

28:10

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

it was just more of a was more inward towards myself and was like okay let me just watch from

28:15

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

the sidelines like i i don't need to be going up and doing that and then it was the older more

28:21

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experienced members or even the alumni that were like no no no like own what you have own what you

28:26

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

know like flaunt it like please do it so then when it was my turn to now then mentor these freshmen and

28:32

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

see them at banquet i'm seeing them at the table sitting there not talking like i was i was like i

28:38

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

wanted someone to come up and tell me like uh-uh come up with me i'm gonna introduce you to this

28:42

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person so that's what i wanted to do and then i think it was just evident the amount of freshmen that

28:47

S… Speaker 1 (WJPZ Bella and Lizzie(0))

came to banquet and that were networking way better than i was when i was a freshman and they were like

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yeah i talked to so-and-so so-and-so it was great and then alumni coming up to us being

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who's that freshman over there do you know them and i said no but now i need to like oh yeah that is

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that is what i'm just so proud of our station for doing and i really see all of the efforts that like

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and again i it is all because of my incredible staff that they are that i feel like everybody is

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able to find their place here and relate to someone because if they don't relate to me

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they can relate to lizzie if they don't relate to lizzie they can relate to alex

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so it's a whole team effort but it's it's just the culture that i felt here the second i joined

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and i just want to make sure that that continues for everyone yeah after me and it's so easy to

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work with the executive board and everybody else a part of z because everybody is so passionate yeah

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about what they're working in that it makes it so easy like oh i have this idea for a graphic for

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the flip that's coming up and the excitement that maddie sensoriello was like oh yeah oh yeah

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we're getting this done and just being able to work with people that are like firing ideas off

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