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Piece Description
Fifteen year old LaShauna Rogers was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. She loves basketball, and grew up watching and playing basketball. For this piece, Rogers talks about why she loves basketball. She also interviews family members about the role basketball has played in their lives. There are sounds from pickup basketball in the neighborhood, and college ball broadcast over the Rogers' living room TV.
Broadcast History
Broadcast only once locally on WXDU, Duke University's radio station in Durham, NC.
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Posted on February 06, 2007 at 01:19 PM | Permalink
Review of Basketball
This piece has too many problems that prevent me from recommending it for broadcast. It contains rough micing in several spots, poor levels and it's too long to keep the listener engaged. I am a big fan of youth work, but without a good edit, both for content and length, it's not presentable for air.
I do like LaShauna's personal reflection on why she likes basketball and the use of tape from both her brothers and her mom. I also like the use of ambiance.
With some editing, this would work well as a drop-in to Weekend America, Only a Game or a local magazine.