Student Media in the News

WOCO Radio officially launches at 7 p.m. Sunday, at www.woffordradio.com. The station, in partnership with online radio company Live365, will feature a variety of music, talk shows and event coverage, all student led.

Read more from GoUpstate.com.

Brooklyn College Television and Radio Students to Launch Web-based Miniseries

“The purpose of this series of courses is to give our students the opportunity to create original content from the first time they sit down at a keyboard, and then take that project all the way through to completion,” says Television and Radio Chair Stuart MacLelland. “Our hope is that students get the full aesthetic experience of creating an original series, so that they can transform what they write into an audiovisual program that has meaning and connects with audiences.”

Read more from Brooklyn College.

These radio shows are all talk—in a good way

Video may have killed the radio star, but there is still a devoted group who carry out the craft of talk radio in the modern world. They often go without a face, just a name. They do this not in a faraway place, but right under your feet. From the basement of the New University Union, these disciples of frequency modulation live to be heard. They’re a little group called WHRW 90.5 FM, Binghamton University’s own free-format radio station.

Read more from The Pipe Dream.

An analysis of 23 university stations in Spain found that college radio embraced social networking – and social networking embraced it back.  In social networks, “university radios maintain their identity associated the sound” because, although they are multimedia platforms, the radios prioritize posting links to audio contents, finds Lucia Casajús at Universitat Jaume I, whose thesis in late January was “University Radios and Social Networks”.

Plus, lots of news on Radio Survivor’s College Radio Survivor.