Category Broadcasting News
13 May
High school station WNAS celebrates 65 years
Now, broadcasting at 2,850 watts on stereo FM, WNAS reaches beyond the county lines and celebrated its 65-year history as the first high school radio station in the history of the United States on Wednesday, the News and Tribune reported. The station hosted an open house for alumni, giving graduates from the first shows guided […]
READ MORE12 May
Catawba College Foundation buying WSAT
Salisbury radio station WSAT-AM is being sold by CAP Communications, Inc. to a newly established Catawba College Foundation, the college said in a news release. Although WSAT will continue its traditional broadcasts with longtime announcer and current owner Buddy Poole remaining in his role as president and general manager overseeing day-to-day operations, the station will […]
READ MORE9 May
Southeast Missouri State University cancels student radio station
A college radio station is going off the air, and Southeast Missouri State students will move to a new home. The group broadcasting Thursday might be the last group of Southeast students to broadcast on RAGE 103.7. Director Karie Hollerbach said students will now partner with the NPR station KRCU to create news content. She […]
READ MORE8 May
Out in Radioland
CBI members listed among top 20 college stations College radio stations have long filled dorm rooms and frat house cleanups of lazy Sunday afternoons. They’re also bastions of free speech fueled by artsy, and music-obsessed students that are sometimes years ahead of the mainstream. From the 1960′s, when the FCC began issuing “class D” licenses […]
READ MORE7 May
WRAS students to lose daytime FM in deal with public radio group
… students and staff at the station learned that student-produced programming will no longer broadcast over the powerful 100,000 watt FM station during daytime hours. Administrators at Georgia State University entered into an agreement with Georgia Public Broadcasting unbeknownst to the WRAS student staff. According to the agreement, GPB will begin airing talk programming mostly […]
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Connecticut College’s WCNI featured in ‘New Haven Living’
“It was cool enough to be featured in New Haven Living’s article, but seeing myself on the cover was especially exciting,” McCoubrey said. “I was lucky to be rewarded and acknowledged just for doing what I love to do. Here’s hoping I get picked up by Rolling Stone next.” McCoubrey, an English major from Wakefield, […]
READ MORE29 Apr
Students win big at College Television Awards
More than 1,100 students from 500 colleges and universities across the country were honored at the 35th annual Academy of Television Arts and Sciences College Television Awards ceremony at the annual awards gala on April 23. Awards were given in regular categories like Drama, Series, Animation and Comedy, as well as special awards with scholarship […]
READ MORE28 Apr
VIDEO: Montco Radio hosts ‘WeeCanned’ food drive to support Manna on Main Street
Everybody’s working for the WeeCanned. Well, everybody at Montco Radio, that is. Students involved in Montco Radio, Montgomery County Community College’s internet radio station, hosted a “WeeCanned” food drive April 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the college’s main campus to benefit Manna on Main Street food pantry. “Right now, [Manna] is in […]
READ MORE25 Apr
Out in Radioland
The future of radio is not very pretty. The other day, I dropped by one of the many Academy of Art University locations around town – this one, the headquarters on New Montgomery, to check out its online station, UrbanKnightsRadio.com. Matty Staudt, the school’s radio instructor and general manager of the station, led me into […]
READ MORE24 Apr
Student stations honored at Garden State Journalists Association
CBI members Rowan Radio and WSOU were both honored in the 67th annual Garden State Journalists Association awards. Rowan Radio, WGLS-FM, earned awards in the Talk Radio and Radio Feature categories. WSOU, from Seton Hall University, earned honors in the Broadcast Radio General News, Sports Radio and Talk Radio categories. For more information and a […]
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