First Blog

Hi Everybody,

What is going on my name is Justin Ritz. I am a senior at the University of Eastern Illinois. I am majoring in Communication Studies going into Electronic Media Production. My ultimate goal is to become a sports broadcaster for a college team or major sports team. I have been broadcasting game for the past 5 years for different local high schools covering football, softball, baseball, and basketball. I love broadcasting games and also like working at the radio station in Efffingham. I have been working there for 3 months doing production, board operation, and broadcasting of games. It is real fun time and I enjoy doing it.

I also enjoy my job working at WEIU Hitmix. The on campus radio station is a fun station to work at. Some of my duties include voicetracking, production, board operation, remotes, live air shifts, and broadcasting of games. The reason I like working at the radio stations is because I like working with the technology and I want to inform people on what is going on in the world of news, sports, and weather, and I want to be first to break any news that might happen when I am working on the air.

While working at the these stations the technology I use is cool to use. When doing production we use Adode Audition to record liners, promos, and PSA's. While broadcasting games at the Effingham radio station we use a cell phone, a flipjack, and two or three headsets. Sometimes on occasion we use a marti system which is really a pain to set up, but it has much better quality over the air.

That is a little about myself and where I stand in my life. The next time on the RitzBitz blog will be about Teutopolis High School girls and boys basketball and how they are doing this year.