January 13, 2015
Student Media in the News
Focal Press Updates ‘Keith’s Radio Station’
Thirty years ago, Michael C. Keith entered a small New England college to start a new career. Keith had spent the past 10 years as a professional broadcaster and was now transitioning into the world of teaching.
The first thing that he would learn was that the textbooks available on the subject at that time were woefully out of date. Radio was now format-driven and there were no textbooks available in 1986 teaching the kind of radio Keith had just left.
So he decided to write his own. He called it simply “The Radio Station” and he pitched his manuscript to Focal Press.
Read more from Radio World.
Framingham State’s College Radio Station WDJM Makes Deal with FCC to Address Public File Violations
In another instance of the FCC giving student-run college radio stations a break, Framingham State University radio station WDJM-FM in Framingham, Massachusetts agreed to pay a lesser penalty of $1,200 for public file violations. According to a Consent Decree adopted on December 31, 2014, the university agreed to pay the penalty and set up a compliance plan to prevent future violations.
Read more from Radio Survivor.
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