KISS 108- Boston's #1 Hit Radio Station!

KISS 108- My interning adventure begins in Boston!

On Tuesday, May 17th, I jumped in my packed-down Honda Accord and fled St. Augustine, Florida like it was last day on Earth. “Frankie, let’s try and make it in one shot,” I mentioned to my stubborn, summer brother, trying to convince him that NY wasn’t as far away as we both thought.

“Alright Lize, we’ll see how far we can get.”

My precious pup, Honey, jumped in Frank’s lap as we took off in the midst of Florida’s sweet summer night.

After leaving at 10:30 p.m. and driving for 16 hours straight, we finally hit White Plains, New York!

It was only a matter of one short day before Frank and I had to get right back in our little coupe of a car and head to the next phase of our beginning summer adventures.

Boston is only 4 hours away from New York, but waking up at 5:00 a.m. in order to make it to Boston in time for my first day’s worth of training was not the easiest task.

You see, I’ve never been to Boston. Okay, I’ve never even been to Massachusetts.

Months ago, one of my closest, craziest, best friends, Frank Lawton, mentioned to me that I would be a perfect fit at a radio station that he worked at last summer.

KISS 108 is Boston’s #1 hit radio station, so when I was filling out the internship application, I was initially intimidated upon that fact alone. But as I glanced back over my resume time and time again, I realized the re-occuring “radio references” that I had listed below.

Previous production manager and current on-air personality for WFCF 88.5 did not, thank goodness, decrease any of my chances of scoring the internship.

Weeks later, when I was accepted to be Matty in the Morning’s production intern, I was ecstatic. Thinking of this, letting the emotions run back over in my head, I was elated driving from New York to Boston, only hours away from my first day with the crew at KISS 108!

On our way, we listened to Matty rant about several things that morning. It was quite the feeling knowing that in just a few short days, I would be apart of the KISS family, running in, out and around the station like it is my own home.

As Frank dropped me off at the office doors, he yelled, “You’re gonna do great!” and drove away.
I collected myself, walked up to the third floor of the radio station’s headquarters and met Kendra Petrone— the producer for Matty in the Morning and the woman who I had been in contact with ever since the entry of my application.

For 15 minutes, she toured me around the station, showing me the ins and outs, the station maze and the diving sectors between KISS 108 and Jammin 94.5— the two most popular stations in Boston that just so happen to be in the very same building.

“This is where you will bring the stars,” she said as she showed me a seating area specified for celebs.

This, I thought, is exactly where I’m supposed to be.

And boy was I right.

Billy Costa threw me on air, asking me where I was from, who I was and exactly what the hell I was doing in his station.

It was awesome, I thought, to be thrown on air on my first day of just touring the station.

I met Matty as he was leaving the building and mentioned to him that I listened to his show earlier that morning.

"Good girl," he said as he shook my hand and stared me in the eyes.

I left yesterday knowing that things were going in the right direction, that all of my hard work was finally paying off and that this was just the start to a fresh new beginning in a town that I knew I was going to fall in love with.

This morning, as I dropped Frank off at the station, I knew he was going in to do promotional work in preparation for tomorrow’s massive KISS 108 kick-off concert.

What I didn’t know was that my dearest Frannie was chatting about me to the KISS crew, mentioning that I love to talk, I’m extremely extraverted and that I would be a great asset to the promotion crew, The KISS 108 Street Team.

And just like that, I was.

“You’re never gonna believe it,” Frankie calls me, whispering the news about how he just scored me a job in the promotions department on top of my production internship with Matty in the Morning.

“I got you your KISS 108 Street Team tee-shirt and your backstage pass for the show tomorrow. Ready to take pics with some stars?” he said as if it was all rhetorical.

“WHAT?! OF COURSE I’m ready!” I could barely contain myself. Knowing that in just a few short hours, I will be up-close and personal with many artists that I jam out to on a daily basis is making it hard to wind down and prepare for a good night’s rest.

Not only will I be promoting KISS 108, taking pictures and having a blast, but I will be getting paid for this promotional work- a job fit for a newcomer's dream in the entertainment business.

Tomorrow will be the start of something new — something beautiful that I’m itching to be apart of!

Check out the lineup and wish me some luck!

1:30pm - Doors Open

3:00pm - Michael Africk

3:15pm - Varsity Girls

3:30pm - The Ready Set

3:50pm - Taio Cruz

4:15pm - The Script

4:45pm - Cody Simpson

5:05pm - Jordan Knight

5:30pm - Sean Kingston

5:55pm - Tinie Tempah

6:20pm - New Boyz

6:45pm - Big Time Rush

7:25pm - OneRepublic

7:55pm - Far East Movement

8:20pm - Jessie J

8:45pm - David Guetta

9:10pm - Mike Posner

9:40pm - Flo Rida