Category Member News
9 Jan
Student Media in the News
Radio Survivor podcast recaps 2017 2017 was a year of ups and downs, from the continued growth of LPFM to the loss of net neutrality. All four Radio Survivors gather to review the year that was, assessing what happened in college radio, community radio and podcasting, with stops along the way in Istanbul, conspiracy theories […]
READ MORE2 Jan
Student Media in the News
Conservative students’ ‘Deplorable Radio’ show remains banned from university airwaves The “Deplorable Radio” show at the University of Minnesota-Morris remains suspended indefinitely from the university’s radio station, prompting the student hosts of the show to argue they were booted because they’re conservative and politically incorrect. The university, meanwhile, maintains the show was suspended for “multiple […]
READ MORE19 Dec
Student Media in the News
WVU radio station GM suspended Matthew Fouty will not be the general manager of the West Virginia University radio station, while he is being investigated for sexual harassment allegations made by students working at the station. Read more from The Journal. Plus, Radio Survivor visits WIIT at Illinois Institute of Technology, and the College Radio […]
READ MORE12 Dec
Student Media in the News
WVU student details string of incidents that led to Thursday’s college radio strike “It’s nothing grandiose. It’s all little things like jokes that just kind of crossed the line, comments that have been weird or asking someone out one too many times after they’ve already told you ‘no,’” said Jackson Montgomery, a WVU student and […]
READ MORE8 Dec
Student Media in the News
WPCD celebrates 40 years of operation “A career like radio requires hands-on experience. I could talk theory in the classroom until I become blue in the face, but the students can’t get real experience without actually doing a shift or making a spot,” said Adam Porter, a professor of communication at Parkland; he also teaches […]
READ MORE5 Dec
Student Media in the News
Radio silence no more; Loras College student reboots student-run KLCR The school’s radio station, KLCR, has been around for decades, but participation has been declining in recent years. For the past two years, the station was silent. Watch the story at KCRG.com. KSDB opens studios for open house Vern Wirka, KSDB’s faculty adviser and journalism […]
READ MORE28 Nov
Student Media in the News
Lost & Found – The WHAV Call Letters Haverford College was no stranger to radio. In 1923, Haverford was licensed to launch WABQ and built studios and a transmitting tower on campus. The station was an unqualified success, with the 1924 Haverford yearbook noting that the radio station was garnering more press than all of […]
READ MORE21 Nov
Student Media in the News
Suffolk County Community College launches internet radio station “It’s been an incredible experience,” said Joseph Panzarino, 19, a second year radio and television major from Sayville. “We built a radio station from scratch.” Panzarino and about 100 other students working toward an associate degree will spend 150 hours staffing the station as part of a […]
READ MORE15 Nov
Board Blog: NSEMC 2017 – What a weekend!
What a week it was! More than 400 students from 85 schools converged on the Hyatt Regency River Walk in beautiful downtown San Antonio for the sixth annual CBI National Student Electronic Media Convention November 2-4, 2017. Our event officially opened on Wednesday afternoon as students began receiving official credentials and complimentary CBI messenger bags […]
READ MORE14 Nov
Student Media in the News
Taking the time to look more deeply: 40 years of public radio in Idaho The station grew out of a radio club on the campus of Boise State University that has roots all the way back to the 1930s, when the school was Boise Junior College. In the 1960s, the student radio station was a […]
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