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19 Jun
Spotlight: Central Washington University’s KCWU
Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? Travis Box, General Manager: I can give you some history, but I’ll let the students judge where we are now… While Central Washington University has had a radio station, in one form or another, since 1958. Our current station began as […]
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 MORE3 Apr
Station Spotlight: Case Western Reserve University’s WRUW
Special thanks to station general manager Bethany Kaufman for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? WRUW is the college station of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. WRUW has its roots with the Flora Stone Mather College for women. It began as WFSM, […]
READ MORE20 Mar
Station Spotlight: Ohio Northern University’s WONB
Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? The precursor to WONB-FM was WONU. WONU was a carrier current station using an AM signal and was only heard in the afternoon. In 1991, the FCC granted a non-commercial FM license to Ohio Northern University. The WONU call letters were […]
READ MORE22 Jan
Newly Granted College and High School LPFMs are Next Wave of Student Broadcasters
Last week the FCC began granting new LPFM applications and so far, it has granted several applications for new LPFM college, high school, and middle school radio stations. I profiled two of the college stations, Washington College and York Technical College, in College Radio Survivor on Friday and in this post I will run through […]
READ MORE14 Nov
Station Spotlight: UTA Radio
Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? We started online in 2001 (before Pandora) and went 24/7 in 2006. Technology has enabled us to expand our reach globally, as well as our visibility. We launched our own app last year, and remain a part of iHeart Radio. What […]
READ MORE27 Jun
Indecency – UPDATE & Call for Action
Act now to help protect student stations from censorship.
READ MORE11 Mar
Call for Session proposals open for 2013 national student electronic media convention in San Antonio
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 11, 2013 Contact: Will Robedee, Executive Director, College Broadcasters, Inc., 855-ASK4CBI Greg Weston, President, College Broadcasters, Inc., 412-648-7990 The CBI Board of Directors is now accepting session proposals for the second annual National Student Electronic Media Convention, to be held Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency San […]
READ MORE27 Feb
Haverford High School Radio Station Celebrates $10K Gift
One of the oldest licensed high school radio stations in the United States, WHHS was awarded a construction permit (PDF) from the FCC in February, 1949 and began broadcasts later that year as a 10 watt radio station at 89.3 FM. A program (PDF) from its opening night states that the station was located on […]
READ MORE13 Jan
Could Your Station have or add an FM Frequency? LPFM & Translator Report
The news from the FCC for those stations looking to begin broadcasting on an FM frequency or to use a previously applied translator application became clearer last month when the FCC issued its decision on how to proceed with the processing the 2003 translator applications and prospective LPFM applications. What is LPFM? LPFM is a […]
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