Category Broadcasting News
20 Sep
College Radio Day Launches Campaign to Fund Album
The CD compilation will include two discs worth of music, including some live performances culled from a number of different college radio stations. Students from across the country worked to select the music for the album. Confirmed artists include Wilco, Passenger, Lucius, Jukebox the Ghost, and the Front Bottoms. Read more from Radio Survivor.
READ MORE17 Sep
‘College Radio Day’ Goes Worldwide
For the third year in a row, “College Radio Day” will take place on the first Tuesday of October, which falls this year on the first of the month. The event has by now grown to 650 participating stations in 40 countries, including Italy, Israel, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Colombia, the United Kingdom […]
READ MORE3 Sep
Out in radioland (and TVland)
A few things we saw this week that perked up our ears: Radio World hits the National Federation of Community Broadcasters conference in San Francisco, including a panel on the Past, Present and Future of KUSF. Spinning Indie visits KSMC. And, we finished announcing all the finalists in the 2013 Student Production awards. Want to […]
READ MORE15 Aug
WBGU DJ’s hit show wins her a trip to IRF in Zurich!
Brody Ramone, a student and DJ for CBI member station WBGU at Bowling Green University, was recently named Best US/Canada College DJ, and wins a trip to Zurich to DJ at the International Radio Festival. She serves as co-Music Director and hosts the show “Dirty Glitter” Thursday nights from 9 p.m. – midnight. CBI caught […]
READ MORE1 Aug
Out in radioland
A few things we saw this week that perked up our ears: Radio Survivor’s resources for college stations going for LPFM this year. WUML hits up the Lowell Folk Festival. Toronto’s new indie station hits the airwaves. CBI’s 2014 conference to be held in Seattle! See you there, but see you sooner in San Antonio! […]
READ MORE29 Jul
Help CBI prepare comments on FCC indecency policies
College Broadcasters, Inc. is seeking input from FCC-licensed student radio stations to prepare comments with the FCC regarding the commission’s indecency policies. More info is at https://www.askcbi.org/?p=3982. If you represent an FCC-licensed radio station or are planning to file for an LPFM license in October, please consider responding to a brief survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8Q8HY6N by […]
READ MORE11 Jul
North Central College senior named Best Sportscaster in Illinois
North Central College student broadcaster Kevin Jackman was named Best Sportscaster in the state at the 2013 Illinois Broadcasters Association (IBA) Silver Dome Awards, held June 19 in Peoria. The Silver Domes are the most prestigious broadcast performance award in the state. Jackman, a resident of Glenview and a senior majoring in broadcast communication and […]
READ MORE29 Jun
EEO Audits by the FCC
“On June 26, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission mailed the secondof its Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) audit letters for 2013 to randomly selected radio stations. In accordance with the provisions of Section 73.2080(f)(4) of the Commission’s EEO rules, theFCC annually audits the EEO programs of randomly selected broadcast licensees. Each year, approximately five percent of […]
READ MORE27 Jun
Indecency – UPDATE & Call for Action
Act now to help protect student stations from censorship.
READ MORE24 Jun
New FCC Leniency Policy for “Student Stations”
In the form of a “POLICY STATEMENT AND ORDER” (“PSO”), the FCC announced a new leniency policy for student run stations. The policy is limited for “first-time violations of certain documentation requirements…”. In the PSO, the FCC states that it will, “first afford the licensee an opportunity to negotiate a consent decree in which the […]
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