Take a sneak peek at CBI’s Kansas City conference session topics

CBI is offering more than 80 educational sessions at the National College Media Convention in Kansas City. Want a taste? Check out some of these top titles:

Using Social Networking Sites to Promote Student Video News

Excuses… A Humorous Look at Excuses Give By Student Deejays for Not Showing Up For a Shift And What to Do About It

Don’t Take “No” for an Answer!

How to get newsmakers to say “yes” to the interview and answer every question you ask.

Re-imaging your college radio station: What to do when your old station name and slogan have been around too long

• Radio Show & Tell: On-air talent and producers play their work, and other attendees and the moderator constructively critique it.
• Practical Operations Concerns About HD Radio
• HD Radio Engineering
• Radio Broadcast Automation – Staying On the Air When No One’s There!
• Play Ball! Remote Broadcast Solutions for Sports Games & other Live Events
• Getting in the Game: Learn how to land your first sports gig and how to move up from there.
• Why ISDN + NPR Equals Free Money!
• Using Ratings in the Classroom: How Arbitron and Nielsen numbers are used, or can be used, in the classroom.
• Information Sharing Among Station Management and Directors
• Training Student Staff at your college radio station
• Video Production and Community Service
• Concerts 201: Festival Planning
• CBI Web Site Student Round Table
• Radio and Webcasting Music Licensing
• Ask the Radio Engineer
• Station Repair Clinic
• Play-by-Play Basics
• Sports Talk
• How to Conduct a Proper Contest
• Business Law for Broadcasters
• Ask the Lawyer
• Political Broadcasting
• Introduction to Underwriting Sales
• Getting More out of Your Underwriting Program
• Underwriting Copy Game
• Organizing a Radio Station Constitution
• Top 10 Video Tips
• What the Pros Look for in Your Demo Tape
• Staff Management and Structure
• Radio Roundtable: Sports
• Radio Roundtable: Programming
• Radio Roundtable: Music
• Radio Roundtable: Production
• Radio Roundtable: News
• Radio Rountable: Underwriting
• TV Roundtable: Programming
• TV Roundtable: Management
• Paper or Plastic? Student Portfolios
• Working With the Administration
• Working with Non-Student Volunteers
• Swag Swap
• Radio Roundtable: Management
• 60 Radio Promotion Ideas in 60 Minutes!
• Landing Your First Job in Production
• Catch ’em and keep ’em: Radio recruiting and retention
• Indecency and Obscenity… An Update and Review of FCC Regulations
• Radio Hour Philosophy… Building the Programming Clock
• Videography – How the “Shooters” Shoot
• Underwriting Sales
• Getting Your Message Out
• Radio Roundtable: Traffic
• Beyond the Tower: College Radio Business Models and Web 2.0.
• How We Launched Our Webstream Radio Station
• Demo Tape Critiques
• Radio at kbps: Learn the basics of how to set up your own Web streams
• Low power and other unlicensed alternatives for radio
• Starting (or buying) a new campus station
• Community Outreach, Education and Interaction
• Writing Better Broadcast News
• NPR Next Generation Radio Journalism Project- Listening Session
• NPR… Seeking Student Leaders
• Creating Great Promos Even if You’re Not Creative
• Convergence: It’s not a destination—it’s a journey.
• High Definition TV Conversion & Incremental Conversion
• Shot Composition for Video
• Paying it Forward: How to Maximize Your Internship
• Ask the TV Engineer
• Surveying College Radio
• Major Changes in EAS
• What’s the New What of Getting Your News Online?
• CBI Cybercast!
• Getting the News
• And You Want Me to Write What?
• What’s the New What of Getting Your News Online?
• Getting the News

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