September 11, 2018

Student Media in the News: Sept. 11, 2018

Last Updated on September 11, 2018 by askcbiorg

The Roar Miami celebrates 30 years

After being granted the space to build it, the station was designed by students, including Roy Pressman, who has worked as consulting engineer to the station since its debut in ’88. The group of students installed all of the equipment in a month.

“We sat there and just punched out all of the cablings and installed all of the equipment,” Sardiñas says. It was Christmas Day 1988 when the arduous project was finally finished.

Rare Campus Radio Recording of Rock Legend Pixies to be Released

When the Pixies showed up at UMass Lowell’s student-run WJUL on a chilly Monday evening, they were just another new band out of Boston.

They retreated to the small “Fallout Shelter” studio in the basement of Lydon Library, where bands have been playing live sets on air for nearly 33 years. Tape rolled. The musicians plugged in and ripped through 15 songs. There was a brief interview. The four Pixies packed up and left. It was Dec. 15, 1986, long before they cast a huge shadow over rock music.

WOO 91 transitions from radio broadcast to webcast

In an email sent to the campus community over the summer, Dean of Students Scott Brown announced that the College’s student-run radio station, WCWS/WOO 91, will transition to a webcast-only operation.

“The College’s administration recommended, and the Board of Trustees, as holders of the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] license, agreed that effective this fall, the station will continue as a webcasting entity only, and cease over-the-air broadcasting,” Brown wrote.

Group forms in hopes of saving UE’s radio station WUEV

It’s been a broadcast staple since the early 1950’s but now there’s concerns the on air light at the University of Evansville’s radio station could go dark.

Current and former UE students are banding together in an effort to keep the university from selling WUEV, the campus radio station.

University officials told Eyewitness News they have not agreed to sell the station, but they did not rule it out either.

College of the Desert Radio Station on the move

Media Professor Laurilie Jackson says the station started in 2011 from humble beginnings on campus with only a handful of students, in what can only be described as a closet. Their new home, also a former radio station, is now a multi-media center.

“We can work many different media departments together in one building,” says Jackson.