Student Media in the News: May 15, 2018

Learn to lead your station at the summer Mega Workshop

CBI will be returning to host the Radio Management track at the national Student Media Summer MegaWorkshop July 12-15 at the University of Minnesota. Registration is open online and more information on the Radio Management track is available on the MegaWorkshop website.

WONC: Rocking Radio in Naperville for 50 Years

“So July 1, 1968 was when the FCC granted North Central College this frequency, the license to operate the station with a frequency of 89.1 megahertz,” said John Madormo, WONC general manager and assistant professor of broadcast communication at NCC.

Rocking airwaves since 1968, WONC has survived the tests of time, going from analog to digital, 12 hours on-air to 24 hours, and from 24 staffed students to 50.

“With that we have a music library that’s over 5000 songs and we never really retire the music,” Madormo said. “So people hear things that you just can’t hear anywhere else and that’s one of the things that they like about us.”

Read more from NCTV17.com.

Knocked out by Irma, WPRK works to return to the airwaves

WPRK threw a party last month to celebrate a return to the airwaves but there was one major hitch: ospreys nesting at the new antenna site.

Added to that, the station that brands itself ‘the best in basement radio’ has to move out of its basement home while the building gets renovated.

Read more from WMFE.org.