Nicolas Raptis was a guest on Nikos Gritsis’ show on Action24 last Saturday night (30/5).
The presenter, who is a great success on the radio with Elina Papila and on the streaming show “The Forgotten” with Tsouvela-Maliatsis, spoke about how his career began and about the new chapter in his life that fatherhood has brought him.
“I was interviewed in November 2009 on Mad Radio. I started in the commercial part, the advertising part, and because of my character, which was a bit intense and I was a bit of a joker, I was led to radio. Then it was Dimitris Ungarezos and Stamatis “Dean Dan Donne” and I watched them for two weeks, because I couldn’t keep up with them in speed. I remember Dimitris telling me that he had gone to the then program director to tell him that “the kid is no good, let him go”. I clicked and he said “dude, get out in front”. And I started there,” Nicholas Raptis recounts.
“I really wanted to do radio, because I was reading on the radio, I’m a radio kid. Maybe someone who sees us younger now doesn’t understand it, but I was saying the other day to the “Forgotten” when I was talking to Tzouvela, who has also been doing radio for many years, that we didn’t have performances of people who did radio. We didn’t know who they were, we imagined!
[…] We all imagined the radio producers, we didn’t google a “what are they like?” So that was the romance of radio, I was reading by radio. I was recording the Galaxy FM shows, Radio Amfissa and I was reading. So, radio was a very germ in my blood, I wanted to do it, and I did it,” he describes.
“In the beginning, when they told me on the radio to put some picture and stuff, I didn’t want to. It’s a tremendous asset of the presenter – because we’re not radio producers, let’s separate that out and you know what I’m talking about. A radio producer is one thing, a radio host is another. I am a presenter. It’s a terrible card for the radio host to try through his or her words and music to try to take the listener on a journey. I think I have that in description, you know? And I love it when they do it to me, too. I like my interviewer to take me on a journey, so I wanted to do that.
Sfera is a very big radio station, so from the beginning I consciously knew where I was going. Now, in combination with Elina, I think we’ve done a great job and created a great ensemble. The numbers after the first half of the year showed it, meaning we were, after December last year, number one in our zone. So I’m very happy. I also experienced the evening zone, which I had never experienced before. I was also a bit scared at the beginning, when, let’s say, from the morning I was going to go afternoon, because I was used to it. Now I have some so difficulties with the afternoon, I don’t know how the radio will continue…
If you ask me now what I prefer, I will tell you that I prefer morning, having done afternoon. It’s an excellent zone in the afternoon, but it’s probably excellent for a person who may not have a family, who may not have the schedule that I have. I miss the kid, I don’t hide it, I don’t see the kid anymore. It may take me 4-5 days to see him, because by the time I leave, by the time he gets back, I’m gone. And it makes me very sad, son, very sad. And I want to fix it,” confesses Nicholas Raptis.
