Kid Curator 2011 - Radio Disney

September 12, 2012 from 4pm to 6pm, The Sports and Entertainment CareerFair – LA Sparks at the Staples Center. George Flora, Local Sales Manager,KSPN and Jackie Evanado, Promotion Manager of KDIS, who have hiringresponsibilities, attended this job fair, which was designed by the LA Sparksto help individuals job search by offering networking sessions and talks onhow to market oneself and by giving attendees the opportunity to meet withinfluential companies in the sports and entertainment industries. Otherbusinesses attending included professionals from a wide variety of fieldsincluding sports, entertainment and communication companies. Attendeeshad the opportunity to meet with each business to ask questions, get careeradvice and submit resumes.C. Internship Program – During this reporting period KSPN and KDIS offeredcollege students the opportunity to acquire skills needed for broadcastemployment while obtaining course credit. KDIS attended the 29th AnnualAnnenberg Career Connection and worked with Disney Careers and CampusRecruitment to recruit interns for this program. KSPN accepted inquiries fromcollege students.Curriculum for the KSPN internship program is as follows: ESPN Overview,Production Training, Production Assignments, Beginning Producer Skills, NewMedia Training, and Shadowing Reporters. The KSPN internship program runson a college semester basis. Each intern works approximately 15 hours a week.Over the reporting year, KSPN had six interns, whose career goals ranged fromsports reporter or announcer to producer.The KDIS Curriculum for the internship programs included working with thePromotions Department both in the office and in the field as well as SalesTraining by attending weekly sales meetings. Over the reporting year, KDIS hadone intern whose career goals included promotions and communications. Theintern worked approximately 20 hours a week.Following is a list of KSPN interns by semester:Fall, September through December, 2012Nicolis Freeman, Journalism/Communications, Cal State University, LongBeachCarly Loddengaard, English, Cal State University, Dominguez HillsJas Kang, Media Studies, Humber College in Toronto, CanadaKari Van Horn, Psychology/Social Sciences/ Sports Media Studies, USCMichael Schwartz, Communications, Santa Monica CollegeTigran Martirosyan, Broadcast Journalism, College of the CanyonsWinter, January through April, 2013135