November 18, 2014
Student Media in the News
88.1 The Burg manager gets tattoo to memorialize station’s award
A slightly anxious Travis Box was right on time for his 2:30 appointment — no doubt thanks to the 10 members of his crew who walked him to the tattoo studio to witness the occasion.
Box is general manager of CWU’s student radio station, KCWU-FM 88.1 The ‘Burg. He was making good on a promise to his students: If The ‘Burg won a national award, Box would get his first-ever tattoo to memorialize their success.
Read more from The Daily Record.
College Radio Survives Despite Growing Challenges
Students are responsible for nearly every aspect of college radio stations. Fees are levied to pay for equipment and broadcasting licenses, while students themselves run the radio stations. Despite that, the stations still belong to the institutions that host them, not the students that make them possible. That means that when a college decides to sell its broadcasting license, students have little to no say in the deal, according to PopMatters.
Read more from U.S. News University Directory.
College Radio Watch: Protesting College Radio Takeovers + A Few New LPFM College Stations
The situation at Georgia State University’s WRAS-FM is a high profile example of public radio’s ongoing interest in urban FM signals. In a piece for PopMatters called The Uncertain Fate of College Radio, Joe Youorski recounts not only the loss of student daytime programming over WRAS-FM, but also makes comparisons with college radio shutdowns and drama at other schools.
Read more from Radio Survivor.
Lakeland College seeks to finalize plans for a radio station
Imagine tuning into the sound of Lakeland’s own Internet radio station. Unbeknownst to many, the plans for a station have been in the works for several years and are now at the point where they could potentially become a reality.
Read more from the Lakeland Mirror.
Blue Colt Radio Hosts Halloween Promotion
Blue Colt Radio, The College’s broadcasting club consisting of students as disc jockeys called the “Colt jockeys,” celebrated Halloween with their promotional event, “No Brainer,” which included a bake sale and a prize giveaway on Wednesday, Oct. 29 in The College Center.
Read more from Quo Vadis.
Chaminade University radio club resurrected
Chaminade’s Radio Club is back in full swing after closing for lack of student participation a year ago.
Senior lecturer Tom Galli, who teaches Video Production and Internet Radio, likes how the school of Business and the Communication department and their students have resurrected the once defunct club.
Read more from the Chaminade Silversword.
Emory & Henry College debuts solar panels that now power radio station
According the the college, that makes it the first FM station in the Southeast to be powered by a solar array. Geography professor at the college, Ed Davis, says they university has been working on other projects just like this for years that reflect the school moving more towards sustainable energy.
Read more from WJHL.
Christian music takes over airwaves of former Jones College Radio frequencies in Jacksonville
Early Thursday WKTZ (90.9 FM) and WJAX (1220 AM) in Jacksonville started broadcasting K-Love, also known as KLUV, contemporary Christian music format.
The stations — formally home to Jones College Radio that broadcast beautiful music and easy listening — went to dead air a week ago.
Read more from the Florida Times-Union.
Brilliance In Bumps And Bruises, On Air And On Screen
WFMU is a public radio station, but its programming is a little different from, say, NPR programs like All Things Considered. The station, film director Tim K. Smith explains, started as the college radio station for Upsala College. When the college went bankrupt, DJs worked together, led by Freedman, to gain the station’s independence.
Learn more about the WFMU documentary Sex and Broadcasting from Public Radio East.
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