Archive
13 Aug
FCC EEO Audit Letters Sent – Do Not Ignore!
Approximately 5% of FCC licensed stations will receive an EEO audit letter. Even if a station has no employees, it is required to respond to the audit lett.
READ MORE1 Aug
CBI Reaches Webcasting Settlement Through 2016!
CBI has been working long and hard to address the most troublesome the legal issues concerning webcasting for student college radio stations. We have achieved results along the way (SWSA settlement of 2003, less stringent recordkeeping and reporting requirements than proposed, etc.) After years of filing comments, visiting with lawmakers, surveying members, etc., etc., etc., we are now able to report that we have achieved meaningfull, long-term results through a settlement under the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 and potentially more! Some highlights...
READ MORE9 Jun
Rowan Radio documentaries win Communicator Awards
Student radio documentaries on the state of New Jersey farming and the effects of depression have earned Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM two awards at the 15th annual Communicator Awards competition. In the student production category, WGLS-FM was awarded the Award of Excellence for “Fading Farms & Saving Grace: Preserving the Garden State,” a 30-minute documentary […]
READ MORE8 Jun
WMUL’s Cavalier wins Nance Award for collegiate sportscasting
Adam Cavalier, a senior at Marshall University, has been awarded the inaugural Jim Nantz Award as the top collegiate sports broadcaster in the U.S. The award, sports broadcasting’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, is presented by Sportscasters Talent Agency of America. Cavalier work at WMUL was previously honored in CBI’s 2008 National Student Production Awards. […]
READ MORE1 Jun
More than 80 college and high school radio stations from 29 states urge U.S. Congress to oppose record-label supported legislation
The letter states, "One oft-cited straw man argument made by recording industry lobbyists is that...educational institutions would fall within a special accommodation. Though, in the context of record industry profits, company executives might believe their proposal to be reasonably low, in the real world those proposed fees represent large portions of annual budgets for student-operated radio stations."
READ MORE28 May
CBI and Others File Comments Regarding Webcasting Rules
In December of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Judges (“CRJs”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“NPRM”) which contained proposals to increase the recordkeeping requirements. Specifically, the CRJs proposed that all webcasters using copyrighted music w/o releases would need to report each and every song played throughout the year, which is known as census reporting. […]
READ MORE6 May
2009 Hearst Broadcast News Championship finalists announced
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program has announced the finalists for the 2009 Broadcast News Championship in San Francisco. The Hearst Journalism Awards Program was founded in 1960 to provide support, encouragement, and assistance to journalism education at the college and university level. The program awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college level journalism, […]
READ MORE24 Apr
Webcasting survey even for those not webcasting!
CBI is conducting a survey of college and high school stations in response to a proposal, by the Copyright Royalty Board, to increase the burdens stations face when webcasting. We are seeking input from all stations, even if they are not currently webcasting. The survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/CBI-recordkeeeping-survey .
READ MORE21 Apr
REQUIRED Webcasting Reports
In order to help the CRJs understand how these proposed changes to recordkeeping and reports of use will impact your station, CBI is developing a survey to gather information from all educational, even if they are not currently webcasting. The survey should be released by the end of the week and a link will be posted to the site, to the CBI email lists and sent via email to stations across the nation. CBI knows that this is a very busy time of year, so we have kept the survey as short as possible in order to gather as many responses as possible. If you do not receive email by the end of the week with a link to the survey, please come back to the site for the link!
READ MORE15 Apr
Student-produced video provides inside look at New York college media convention
Dan Sprumont, a junior communications media major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in Indiana, Pa.) has produced a terrific look at the 2009 CBI/CMA College Media Convention. He is currently the promotions coordinator for WIUP-TV (Chan. 20) which reaches over 70,000 homes in the Western Pennsylvania region. Sprumont filmed the video while attending the CBI/CMA […]
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