
{"id":2247,"date":"2008-04-03T07:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/04\/03\/carrboro-fifth-grader-hosts-bilingual-broadcast\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T07:03:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:03:17","slug":"carrboro-fifth-grader-hosts-bilingual-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/04\/03\/carrboro-fifth-grader-hosts-bilingual-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrboro fifth grader hosts bilingual broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/sadierev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/sadierev.jpg\" alt=\"Sadie Frank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bilingual radio show, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sadie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Samosas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d airs on WCOM Fridays from 4-5 p.m. Photo by Kirk Ross.\" align=\"left\" height=\"210\" width=\"161\" \/><\/a><em><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carrboro Elementary School fifth-grader Sadie Frank doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just have her own radio show \u00e2\u20ac\u201d she hosts a radio show in both English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Sadie hosts a weekly radio show on WCOM 103.5 FM and translates everything in English to Spanish in order to get through to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>The show, called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sadie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Samosas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d airs Fridays from 4 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I always wanted to have my own radio show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sadie said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was old enough to do it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an age limit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Sadie was familiar with radio because her father used to work with WCOM and she did a show with him once.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had a lot of fun, and decided I was going to submit my application [for a show],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sadie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s application was accepted and she started her show in December.<\/p>\n<p>For each show, Sadie invites a guest to help her host. Usually, her guest is a member of her class at Carrboro Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Sadie is in the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dual-language program, in which about half of the students are native Spanish speakers. She said she likes to have guests from her class because they speak Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know many adults who speak Spanish,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she added.<\/p>\n<p>During the show, Sadie interviews her guest, reads the weather report and conducts what she calls the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Half-time Quiz Show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which she plays songs in English and Spanish, then quizzes her guest about the songs.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people call in to help answer the quiz-show questions or just to talk to Sadie about the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really fun to get phone calls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sadie and her guest host translate the entire show from English into Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was really hard at first,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sadie said, but thinks it makes her show unique.<\/p>\n<p>If she has any time leftover after her usual segments of the show \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which she usually doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Sadie plays more English and Spanish songs.<\/p>\n<p>Sadie said she would like to eventually have a longer show so she can fit more in, but right now she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too busy with other after-school activities.<\/p>\n<p>Sadie aspires to be an actor or a writer when she grows up, but doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to work as a professional radio host.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing it professionally, and you mess up, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big deal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sadie said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too much strain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>However, she said she would like to continue volunteering as a radio host.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to keep doing it as long as I can,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great activity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Carrboro Elementary School fifth-grader Sadie Frank doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just have her own radio show \u00e2\u20ac\u201d she hosts a radio show in both English and Spanish. Sadie hosts a weekly radio show on WCOM 103.5 FM and translates everything in English to Spanish in order to get through to a wider audience&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}