"Radio personality" is like anything- a combination of your own personality and the skill you develop, which presents as your style. I think it's quite like most activities, including programming. Some people have the capacity to handle the technical aspects, but their code is nothing you'd want to spend time trying to understand. Some people are great at documenting their code, but they never bother doing much of interest...

From my experience as a DJ (currently @ WESU, Middletown), a lot of the skills are acquirable- feeling comfortable on mic, controlling your quality ("ummm", "uhh", etc), knowing how to segue, and all the technical operations using the equipment. It takes dedication to learn them, but no atypical capacity for learning is required.

However, some people just have more listenable voices, or a quality of speaking that's more appealing to listen to. There's a subjective element provided by the listener / user that will vary from case to case.

"One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for the myriad instances and applications?"
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

In reply to Re: A muse on Talent by blogical
in thread A muse on Talent by kwaping

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.