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 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!

A list of most of the finalists in the 2010 CBI student production awards contest have been announced!  CBI conducts an annual award program with hundreds of entries in multiple categories.  The submissions have been judged and the finalists are now posted.  Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held at the Fall National Conference.

For hotel rates, registration fees and other information about the convention, please see the Fall Convention Page.

There is also a facebook page for the CBI Fall Conference!  Become a fan today!

And now for the list of sessions!*

The Obama FCC — One Year On
Michael Taylor, Instructor, Mass Media Advisor, W V V S  BlazeFM Valdosta State University

Underwriting Credit Language Game
June Fox, Director, Station relations DEI
JC Patrick, Director, Corporate Support KUHF

Inspiring and Managing Student Leaders (for advisors)
Ryan Brown, Manager/Advisor The Emerson Channel Emerson College

Roundtable: Radio Production
Andy Welch, Roundtable: Radio Production WBSU College at Brockport

Challenges and Rewards: Advising Student Media at a Small Public University
James Lohrey, Professor Mansfield University
Dan Mason, Professor Mansfield University
Chuck Hoy, Professor Mansfield University

Seven Steps to Great Sales
June Fox, Director, Station relations DEI
JC Patrick, Director, Corporate Support KUHF

Practical HD Radio Concerns
Aaron Read, General Manager WHWS 105.7FM Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Radio Roundtable: Management
Dave Black, General Manager WSUM-FM University of Wisconsin-Madison

How Not to Get a Job!
Michelle Van Maanen, KYOT-TV University of South Dakota
Candace Walton, KAOR-FM University of South Dakota

Make the Sale: Nailing Your Next Presentation
JC Patrick, Director of Corporate Support KUHF

SportsTalk Radio
Drew Deener, Host of “The Early Birds” WRKD-AM 790, Louisville

New Year, New Staff…Starting Over!
Angela Criscoe, Georgia College & State University

Radio Imaging for College Stations
Greg Weston, General Manager WPTS-FM University of Pittsburgh

Clear as Mud: The Regulation of Indecent Broadcasts
Greg Newton, Associate Professor ACRN Ohio University

What’s New in Premiere Pro CS5 & After Effects CS5
Jason Levine, Sr. Worldwide Evangelist, Creative Solutions Adobe Systems Incorporated

Radio Roundtable: Programming
Dave Black, General Manager WSUM-FM University of Wisconsin-Madison

Making Your Music Sing On Your Station – Lessons for the Music Director
Den Davis, Music/Program Director 99.7 DJX
George Lindsey, Music/Program Director 102.3 The Max

Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Michelle Van Maanen, Dr. KYOT-TV University of South Dakota
Travis Berg, KYOT-TV University of South Dakota
Kenny Bass, KAOR-FM University of South Dakota

DSLR Editing with Premiere Pro CS5 and Photoshop CS5
Jason Levine, Sr. Worldwide Evangelist, Creative Solutions Adobe Systems Incorporated

80 College Media Program Ideas in 80 Minutes
Richard Gainey, General Manager WONB-94.9 FM Ohio Northern University

Making Your Station Financially Independent: A Step-by-Step Guide to an Annual Pledge Drive
John Onderdonk, Faculty Advisor/General Manager KSYM-FM San Antonio College

Webcasting Rates and Rules
Joel Willer, Director of University Broadcasting KEDM & KXUL University of Louisiana at Monroe
Mitchell L. Stoltz, CONSTANTINE | CANNON LLP
Cathi Gellis, CBI Web III Counsel

Play-by-Play Basics
Paul Rogers, Play-by-Play Announcer University of Louisville Cardinals University of Louisville

Roundtable: Public Relations
Brittany McDonald, WBSU College at Brockport

Making the Morning Show – How the Pros Do it
George Lindsey, Morning show co-host 102.3 The Max
Lynda Lambert, Morning Show Co-host

Getting the Most Out of Your Pipes
Michael Taylor, Instructor, Mass Media Faculty Advisor, W V V S Valdosta State University
Dan Robbins,   Marywood University

What’s New in Photoshop CS5
Jason Levine, Sr. Worldwide Evangelist, Creative Solutions Adobe Systems Incorporated

Station Repair Clinic
Various CBI Members ,  CBI

How to Pass an FCC Inspection/Day to Day Compliance
David Oxenford,  Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Laura Mizrahi, Vice President Communications Technologies, Inc.

Starting Your Underwriting Program From Scratch
June Fox, Director, Station relations DEI

Editing Enigmas: Using multiple editing platforms in a single curriculum
Benjamin Tigner, Assistant Professor/Video Unit Head MHTV-Moore Hall Television Central Michigan University

Swag Swap
Jamie Lynn Gilbert, Station Adviser WKNC North Carolina State University
Lydia Ammossow, Director & Station Adviser KXLU Loyola Marymount University

Get with The “Program”
David Wilson, General Manager Clayton State Internet Radio Clayton State University
L.Michelle Hayes, Student Media Advisor Clayton State University Clayton State University

What’s New in Photoshop CS5
Jason Levine, Sr. Worldwide Evangelist, Creative Solutions Adobe Systems Incorporated

Radio After Noon – Making It Compelling
Shane Collins, Afternoon Air Personality Q103.1 – WQNU
Sarah Jordan, Evening Air Personality 99.7 DJX

Student Manager Roundtable
Paul Glover, Assistant Professor  Henderson State University

Flip. Edit.Post.
Jay Yul Banks, Vice President of Programming, Clayton State Television Clayton State University
Tia Forbes, Executive Producer, Special Programming Clayton State Television Clayton State University

Covering the BIG EVENT on a small budget
Randall King, Professor of Communication/Director of Broadcast Media Indiana Wesleyan University

Starting or Upgrading a Broadcast Station
David Oxenford,  Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Laura Mizrahi, Vice President Communications Technologies, Inc
John Devecka, Operations ManagerWLOY Loyola Radio Loyola University MarylandTV Station

Management Roundtable
Justin Stewart, General Manager University of Kentucky Wildcat Student TV

Business Law for Broadcasting
David Oxenford,  Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Magic of Audio Production – Make Your Spot Stand Out
AJ McKay, Production Director Main Line Broadcasting

Radio Automation Options: Staying On-Air When No-One’s There!
Aaron Read, General Manager WHWS 105.7FM Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Radio Roundtable: Sports
Kyle Deckelbaum, Sports Director WSUM-FM University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ask the Broadcast Legal and Technical Experts
David Oxenford,  Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Laura Mizrahi, Vice President Communications Technologies, Inc.

Student Leadership (for student leaders)
Ryan Brown, Manager/Advisor The Emerson Channer Advisor

Classroom to Airwaves: Training the New Student DJ
Lisa Marshall, Station Manager WMCO Muskingum University

CBI National Student Production Awards
Warren Kozireski, President CBI College at Brockport

CBI Membership Meeting
Warren Kozireski, President CBI College at Brockport

Station Repair Clinic
Various CBI Members ,  CBI

Leveraging Leadership: A Spectrum of Successful Strategies for Advising College Media
Marjorie Yambor, General Manager Revolution 91.7 Western Kentucky University
John Owens, Associate Professor BearCast Radio University of Cincinnati

Video Shooting for Newspaper Journalists
Mark Hannah, Adviser Viking Fusion Berry College

You Can’t Say that on the Radio
David Oxenford,  Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Wake Up (your campus name here)! Morning Radio on Your College Campus
Angela Criscoe, Faculty Adviser WGUR Georgia College & State University
Ben Elliott, General Manager WGUR Georgia College & State University
Emily Brown, Morning Show CoordinatorWGUR Georgia College & State UniversityA Legal Guide to the

Cyber Jungle
David Oxenford,  Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

College Radio:  Centers of Research and Development
John Owens, Associate Professor BearCast Radio University of Cincinnati
Marjorie Yambor, General Manager Revolution 91.7 Western Kentucky University
Surveying College Radio
Jamie Lynn Gilbert, Station Adviser WKNC North Carolina State University

Recruitment and Retention of Student Staff
Rick Herritt, Adviser WETD 90.7 FM Alfred State College
Warren Kozireski, President – CBI / GM & Instructor WBSU SUNY Brockport

Station Repair Clinic
Various CBI Members ,  CBI

Broadcast News Writing–Short and sweet
Edward Arke, Associate Professor/Department Chair WVMM Messiah College

Put It In Writing: Forms That Will Save Your Butt
Richard Gainey, General Manager/Advisor WONB-94.9 FM Ohio Northern University

Block vs. Freeform – What Scheduling Philosophy Is Best for Your Station?
Sean Corron, Operations Manager WSTB-FM Streetsboro High School
Dylan Wray, Station Manager KCSU-FM Colorado State University
Michael Taylor, Faculty AdvisorWVVS Valdosta State

Planning the Spring NY 2011 Conference
Will Robedee, Executive Director CBI Rice University
Warren ‘Koz’ Koziereski, President CBI
CBI Board Members

Producing for Television
David Levy,  Pedal America

Radio Station Student Management
Bob Long, General Manager, Faculty 88.9/WSTB-FM Streetsboro High School

Radio Promotions – What Have You Heard?
Jake Minton, Assistant Promotions Director Main Line Broadcasting

Remote Broadcasting Options for Sports and other Live Events on Radio
Aaron Read, General Manager WHWS 105.7FM Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Engineering Concerns about HD Radio
Aaron Read, General Manager WHWS 105.7FM Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Concerts 201: Festival Planning
Chris Thuringer, Student Media Adviser WRFL University of Kentucky
Matt Gibson, Programming Director WRFL University of Kentucky
Ainsley Wagoner, General ManagerWRFL University of Kentucky

Developing a Public Affairs Show
Jamie Lynn Gilbert, Station Adviser WKNC-FM North Carolina State University
Kieran Moreira, Program director (student) WKNC-FM North Carolina State University

Campus Connections: How collaborating can make all the difference
Chris Thuringer, Student Media Adviser Wildcat Student TV University of Kentucky
Justin Stewart, General Manager Wildcat Student TV University of Kentucky

Converging Media is Your Friend
Timothy Teeling, General Manager WLOY Loyola Radio Loyola University Maryland
John Devecka, Operations Manager WLOY Loyola Radio Loyola University Maryland
Caila Brown, General ManagerSCAD Radio Savannah College of Art and Design

Adding “Now Playing” to Your Webcast and Broadcast
Bryan Hance, President RadioActivity.fm
Jason Stoddard, Director of Broadcasting Sales Live365
Joel Willer, Director of University BroadcastingKXUL University of Louisiana at Monroe

You’re Not Just a DJ: Bringing Back News and Information to College Radio
Pamela Ohrt, Assistant Professor  Wartburg College
Aaron Trier, KWAR co-manager  Wartburg College
Isaac Slings, KWAR co-manager Wartburg College

Options for Unlicensed Broadcasting
John Devecka, Operations Manager WLOY Loyola Radio Loyola University Maryland
Richard Burden, Owner Burden Associates, Inc.

The Journey to Convergence- Newspapers and TV stations CAN get along!
Mark Hannah, Adviser Viking Fusion Berry College
Steven Walker, Executive Director Viking Fusion Berry College
Kevin Kleine, AdviserStudent Publications Berry College

Meet your local broadcast engineer
John Devecka, Operations Manager WLOY Loyola Radio Loyola University Maryland
Members of SBE Chapter 35 ,

Radio Show & Tell
Chris Wheatley, Manager of Radio Operations  Ithaca College
HD-2 & 3 – Fertile Ground For Your New Sound
John Morris, General Manager/Instructor of Radio-TV WSWI/WPSR 90.7 FM HD-2 University of Southern Indiana
Scott Uecker, General Manager/Instructor of Communication WICR University of Indianapolis

Documentary Radio and Filmmaking: Telling a story through Narrative Structure
Paul Glover, Assistant Professor  Henderson State University

Giving Back Through Community-Oriented Radio Shows
John Devecka, Operations Manager WLOY Loyola Radio Loyola University Maryland

* Sessions and speaker subject to change.

Galt House Hotel,
140 N 4th St.
Louisville, KY

Employer pre-registration is required! Please use registration form (PDF).

Media recruiters will conduct 20-minute interviews with students who have submitted resumes and/or portfolios.

Recruiters can seek candidates for both internships and job openings. Only those students who submit resumes and have their names posted for interviews may participate in the Career Fair. Recruiters will have resumes/portfolios in hand on Friday morning and will have the opportunity to select which students they wish to interview.

Cost: $75.00 (which includes boxes to collect resumes, lunch for up to two recruiters on Saturday and a table for each recruiter to conduct interviews).

About Us: The National Student Media Convention is an annual convention. Three large student media organizations, College Media Advisers, Associated Collegiate Press and College Broadcasters, Inc. join forces for the largest student media conference in the United States. College student media (newspaper, magazine, television, radio and online) advisors and their students from across the nation gather to attend sessions and network with each other.  

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/06/26/1242160/college-radio-station-a-victim.html

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

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.