CBI Conference Registration Now Open
Posted by Will R
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The largest and best student media convention is now accepting registrations for its annual fall conference! ~2,250 students and advisers get it! They will converge in Louisville this October for the National College Media Convention! Register now and order a CBI T!
This is not about homogenization, rather learning about our differences, sharing our plights, sharing and most importantly learning from each other. You will come back re-energized and with lots of new ideas and a few new friends. See the convention page for details.
WSOU is making news!
WSOU 89.5 FM at Seton Hall has been hard at work!
As reported here WSOU’s Caitlin Duffy and four others won BAYLISS RADIO SCHOLARSHIPS from the JOHN BAYLISS BROADCAST 
FOUNDATION. Each of the students, selected because of academic achievement and extracurricular radio activities, will receive a $5,000 scholarship.
The other recipients include Ithaca College’ s (WICB) Jessica Brandt, WFTU ‘s Thurmon Henry, KSFS’s Dallas Osborn, and Syracuse U.’s Marina Zarya.
WSOU-FM has also teamed up with punk/hardcore music/lifestyle magazine, Define the Meaning, to participate in Operation Gratitude and ship music CDs to troops serving the U.S. overseas. You can read about their efforts here and here.
Have news to report about your station? Send it to us!
WLOY in Pepsi Refresh Everything grant challenge
WLOY is involved in a grant challenge to raise money to support the children’s literacy radio program. This effort is covered in RBR.
College radio station KVTI a victim of budget cuts, drops Top 40 format
Posted by Erick Lauber
Read about KVTI’s new format and how the change in format impacted the students at Clover Park Technical College.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/26/1242160/college-radio-station-a-victim.html
Want To Buy: Equipment for High School Campus Radio Station
Want To Buy: Equipment for High School Campus Radio Station
Looking to complete the final build of our school district’s campus-limited AM and FM student radio station and looking for equipment. Ideally seeking AM and/or FM modulation monitors, audio processing as well as CD or other studio equipment that would allow students to have a realistic learning environment. Your donation of used but serviceable equipment can be rewarded with a letter for tax purposes as this is a municipal school district. Reimbursement for shipping or pickup within a reasonable distance of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Thanks to the engineers who have already assisted and a thanks in advance to those willing to help in training the future broadcasters of tomorrow.
Contact: Bill DeFelice 203-854-4104 bill@norwalkps.org
Note: Bill was kind enough to answer CBI’s request for more information and supplied the following paragraph for those that are interested: “After some years we’ve finally begun to make progress with building up on on-campus radio station for our district’s high school. While a two studio suite was included as part of a building renovation which took place four years ago it wasn’t until recently that student interest made it possible to encourage the upper-level administration to complete this project. Like many things in the public education arena, the funding this project has received hasn’t allowed me to make much headway with building the station. Some local radio groups and engineers have been kind enough to offer their older legacy equipment to us. On some occasions the gear required substantial repairs of which unavailable components made these pieces unsuitable for our needs. Being a freelance broadcast engineer I myself have donated various pieces of equipment as well as studio furniture. We were fortunate to have received a couple of donated 70′s vintage Gates consoles that will serve as the on-air and production consoles. At the moment I’m seeking suitable audio processing for our campus-limited AM and FM transmitters and, ideally, AM and FM modulation monitoring equipment to augment teaching our students in an environment more like actual broadcast stations. For this first year, the campus station and companion webstream will be operating as a club while the curriculum is being developed to integrate the station into teaching classes in journalism and electronic media. The station will also allow student to study other broadcast- related subjects such as audio production, announcing, copy writing and sportscasting presentation. While I was lucky enough to become involved in my hometown’s 330 watt high school radio station at the age of 14 it is my hope to pay it forward and mentor students in the way I had been back in the 70′s – something that not only allowed me to learn about the broadcast industry, but allowed me the opportunity to become employed at several broadcast groups during my lifetime. Any assistance that will allow these students to learn and grow is greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Bill DeFelice, Norwalk Connecticut Public Schools”
KCOU – Still Broadcasting Despite Funding Cuts
KCOU
KCOU has appeared previously here on the CBI blog because of its funding difficulties. According to the articles referenced in those posts, the station is being defunded by the student government by 20% per year as a compromise to complete defunding by the student fees that support the station. This article eventually talks about the controversy over the funding of the station and how the station seems to be bouncing back and meeting the challenge of self-funding. CBI hopes to bring station representatives to the Fall Louisville convention to share their story with those in attendance at the National Student Media Conference.
The time-line in the most recent article shows that this is not the first time that the station has had a crisis and needed to find a way to remain student run.
New Facebook Fan Page!
Announcing the New CBI Facebook Fan Page! LINK
Some may ask, “Don’t we have a group already?” That is true, however, Fan Pages are different than “groups” in many ways.
Pages can be thought of in much the same way as normal profiles on the site – brand or celebrity Pages have the ability to have friends, they can add pictures, and they have walls that fans can post on. Pages communicate by “updates” which show on the update tab or a person’s wall if they’re a fan and have allowed the page to show updates. Pages can host applications, so a Page can essentially be more personalized and show more content. Groups can’t do this.
Groups are a bit different than Pages. You can set join permissions on groups so that they are either open to anyone, closed (where users must get administrator approval to join) or secret (invite only). Groups have administrators that manage the group, approve applicants or invite others to join. Administrators can also appoint “officers” who are nominally in charge – however, being an officer doesn’t mean the person has the ability to administer the group.
Because of these privacy settings, Facebook’s groups are analogous to clubs in the offline world.
Both Groups and Pages allow you to create related Events, which show up under the users’ Request (and later in the upcoming events page on the sidebar of their dashboard if they’ve RSVPed). Neither have any added functionality beyond the generally available Facebook Events application.
The Bottom Line
Groups are great for organizing on a personal level and for smaller scale interaction around a cause. Pages are better for brands, businesses, bands, movies, or celebrities who want to interact with their fans or customers without having them connected to a personal account, and have a need to exceed Facebook’s 5,000 friend cap.
WLOY Loyola Radio Wins Club of the Year
WLOY, the non-profit, student-run radio station of Loyola University Maryland, has been selected as the Loyola Club of the Year for its dedication to the community and service this year. Read more
FCC first quarter reports due
A gentle reminder: FCC licensed stations that the 2010 first quarter Issues & Programs report is due in your Public File by April 10th-two weeks from this Saturday.
WIPZ Shutdown for FCC Violation
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According to JSOnline WIPZ 88.5 FM (the college radio station at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside) was shut down for broadcasting at power levels that exceeded the FCC guidelines for unlicensed stations. The article and the station web site offer little details. Student operated radio stations, licensed or unlicensed will learn what it takes to avoid such problems at the CBI annual fall convention. CBI offers a number of resources to help stations remain in compliance with the FCC regulations throughout the year!
College stations, FCC licensed or not, should join CBI to avoid the problems reported by JSOnline. CBI even helps non-members through its free email list. List members post questions and receive information from peers and industry professionals.
While we take this event, as reported by JSOnline to highlight the benefits of membership and attending the CBI annual fall conference, we again point out that CBI members offer support to all college stations, regardless of membership status.
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