September 25, 2018
Student Media in the News: Sept. 25, 2018
NSEMC debuts app, Visual Media Festival and more
• Download the Attendify app for your phone, search for CBI and view the entire interactive NSEMC schedule on your phone! Start planning your highlights for the 2018 NSEMC in Seattle right now. Plus, the complete speakers and sessions lists are also on our website.
• Submit your entries to the first-ever Visual Media Festival. Details are online and the deadline is Monday, Oct. 1.
• Register and book your hotel rooms for the convention now! The early-bird registration discount pricing ends Monday, Oct. 1 and the hotel reservation cutoff is Friday, Oct. 5.
• And, check out our three special pre-convention workshops for Wednesday, Oct. 24! Get an in-depth look at scheduling, editing or podcasting!
WIXQ Celebrates 50th Anniversary
“WIXQ is the reason I stayed at Millersville. WIXQ kind of gave me a purpose when I felt like I didn’t have a purpose.” Schulz said.
Nick Weissmann has similar feelings, saying about the station, “It’s given more purpose as to being here and I’ve met a lot of really cool people.”
This sense of belonging to a WIXQ community doesn’t end after graduation. Jared Eichmann was a DJ and Assistant Music Director for WIXQ before gradating in 2013, writes of WIXQ “It was like our own fraternity or sorority that we could just be ourselves in and the webbing that held us all together was music and creativity.”
Read more from The Snapper.
Poster sale supports student radio station
Sara Weingarter, a junior graphic design major and WTSR’s station manager, explained the impact that the poster sale has on the radio station. Although the posters are provided by the Beyond The Wall, a pop-up poster company, the radio station receives a portion of the proceeds.
“It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year,” Weingartner said. “It helps us fund all the other stuff we do throughout the year like merch sales and our end of the year banquet.”
Read more from The Signal.
Radio Survivor tours 100th college station
The grand total of ALL stations toured and written up is now at 147, owing to the community, high school, public, religious, commercial, and other miscellaneous stations that have been on my journey over the past decade. And for those keeping track, by my calculations, my visit to University of Chicago’s college radio station WHPK is my 100th published college radio station tour. Princeton’s WPRB still holds the distinction of my 100th OVERALL published radio station tour. Now, who will be number 150?
Read more on the College Radio Watch blog.
CBI seeks Events Director
College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) seeks a part-time paid Events Director to coordinate the National Student Electronic Media Convention (askcbi.org/seattle) and other programming. The director will work remotely with occasional travel required throughout the year.
CBI is a member-driven organization serving students and advisers of student media. Through events, programs and a network of expertise, CBI fosters experiential learning, professional opportunities and advocacy for the success of student media programs.