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13 Feb

SAFER Community Radio Conference Scholarship Application

CBI member stations are eligible to apply for the grant that would cover the costs of attending the SAFER intensive. Hurricanes, fires, blizzards, chemical spills, floods, earthquakes—is your station ready to provide critical public service in a time of critical public need? The SAFER project has created a detailed guide for stations to develop their […]

11 Feb

Sports Broadcasting Award

Sports Broadcasting Awards call for entries

10 Feb

$16,000 Fine For Recording Telephone Conversation for Broadcast Without Prior Permission

A Blog entry by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorney, David Oxenford summarizes two recent fines concerning the recording and broadcasting of phone conversations.  The entry states that one station was fined $16, 000 and another $4,000. Oxenford makes an important note that the decision is clear “that the violation occurs as soon as the person […]

9 Feb

Cerritos College Radio Station and Paper “Merge”

The web site for the Talon Marks states, “TM and WPMD merge for new campus radio show”.  Perhaps collaborate would be a better word for the new program on WPMD?  Read the article.

9 Feb

Z88.9 to Broadcast from Haiti

The BCC college station, WBZC-FM, will be broadcasting live Tuesday through Saturday from a South Jersey relief mission in Haiti according to this article in the CourierPostOnline.

20 Jan

FCC Ownership Reports Due

February 1 noncommercial radio stations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and New York, and noncommercial television stations in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma must prepare and file electronically a biennial Ownership Report with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) using the current noncommercial FCC Form 323-E. For more details, see the Broadcast Law Blog.

19 Jan

Radio Survey Results

Thank you to all of you that responded to the recent survey request.  Jim Hayes of Vanderbilt University recently provided the results of the survey in PDF form for those that are interested. RadioSurvey_Jan2010

17 Jan

1/31 Deadline for Webcasting Fee Payments and No/Reduced Recordkeeping Option Deadlines

If your radio station is webcasting sound recordings without having obtained royalty waivers, your station must make some decisions and pay the annual minimum fee prior to January 31, 2010. Royalty Fees for the webcasting of sound recordings are paid on an annual basis each January.  The minimum fee is $500. Stations also need to […]

17 Jan

CBI Spring 2010 Convention Sessions Announced!

The preliminary list of sessions and speakers for the Spring 2010 convention is now available!  The Spring 2010 convention is coming up quickly and so are the early bird deadlines for registration and the reserved hotel block.  Details are available on the convention page. The convention is a product of College Media Advisers with the […]

2 Dec

Photo Slideshow from the 2009 National Student Production Awards