Student Media in the News: June 12, 2018

Housing deadline for Summer College Media Megaworkshop is June 22

Joining us in Minneapolis for the Radio Management Track of the 2018 summer College Media Megaworkshop July 12-15? The housing deadline is approaching if you want to stay in the university residence halls. Registration and reservations are open on the Megaworkshop website.

KMHD2 Plans Hoodstock – a new indie music festival

Devin Hardgrove, Mt. Hood student and music director of KMHD2, the college’s radio station, is putting together a music festival in an effort to bring a reliably great, affordable, all-ages music festival to the Gresham area.

Hoodstock will be held on Saturday, Sept. 22 at MHCC’s Earl Klapstein football/track and field stadium, and is set to be free for students and staff, and somewhere around $15 for the public.

Read more from The Advocate.

Bonnaroo 2018: MTSU radio stations creating special content from ‘Radio Roo’

MTSU’s low-watt, but high-spirit, student radio station, WMTS, joined its big sister, the 100,000-watt Americana public radio giant WMOT, in working from Radio Roo, the makeshift set of broadcast studios set up for live broadcasts and reporters working on taped packages.

Read more from the Daily News Journal.

Plus, the College Radio Watch column and the Radio Survivor Podcast.