November 11, 2014
Student Media in the News
Last Updated on November 11, 2014 by askcbiorg
IU Kokomo on the air, on Internet radio station
Riley, a junior new media major from New Palestine, is just one of the student DJs on the internet-based Radio Free Kokomo, a student organization that broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at radiofreekokomo.org.
Read more from the IUK newsroom blog.
The Uncertain Fate of College Radio
Indeed, college radio sales and deals have happened at a variety of different schools throughout the US. The schools have ranged from small community colleges, such as Lehigh Carbon Community College in Pennsylvania, to large institutions like Georgia State, with an undergraduate enrollment of around 25,000 students. Both public and private universities have sold their stations in similar manners. Stations have varied from the eclectic, freeform radio of KTRU and Colby-Sawyer’s WSCS to the tight, professional style of WRAS.
Read more from Pop Matters.
‘No Local Radio History Is Too Small’
The Radio Preservation Task Force calls itself the first national radio history project of the Library of Congress; it grew out of the Library’s ambitious National Recording Preservation Plan. I wrote earlier about the radio-related aims of the overall plan; see http://tinyurl.com/mulxa9u.
Read more from Radio World.
Jacksonville’s Jones College Radio vanishes from the airwaves Thursday in wake of sale
Jones College agreed to sell the frequencies to Educational Media Foundation for about $3.38 million, a move approved by the Federal Communications Commission with the actual financial transaction expected to be completed in November.
Read more from the Florida Times-Union.
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