If you want to work at a Jazz station, know how to do the news and production. If you want experience out of college, you have to go for anything. I ran remotes for Cleveland Indians baseball and Cleveland Browns football and that wasn't why I got into radio. I looked for a job working weekends at a Jazz station. I had lunch with Joe Fields and he told me about this station in Newark that was run by a pretty tight-knit bunch.
Absolute persistence is what it's all about.
Don't set your sights too high initially and don't forget about all the building blocks, like the work as a production assistant at three in the morning for somebody. The truth is that radio is fun but not glamorous. If you want glamor, go get a job at Elle magazine. My first paid job in the record industry was working in the mail room at Warner Brothers, Nashville. I was determined to start at the bottom of the heap just to get my foot in the door and earn starvation money.