Student Media in the News

Last Updated on December 13, 2016 by askcbiorg

Mourning those Lost in Oakland, including College Radio Participants from KALX

I’m imaging that in the weeks to come, we’ll learn of more radio folks and I would love to hear their stories. My heart aches for the friends and families of everyone lost in the fire. If you’d like to lend support to those affected by the fire, some options are listed here. Numerous vigils and benefits have been taking place since the fire, including some upcoming events in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Read more from Radio Survivor.

Happy birthday, WPRK

This student-powered beacon is a cultural and community treasure as an expressive outlet for the area’s youth and the only radio voice for truly interesting music. That this constellation of portholes into alternative, obscure and sometimes even freaky sounds and perspectives exists amid a sea of corporate banality in terrestrial radio is laudable. That it exists here in our community is manna.

Read more from Orlando Weekly.

Simmons College Radio hosts pledge-a-thon in memory of beloved professor

“When the radio station team tried to find a way to honor Len, we kept coming back to his love of radio and education. When Julia [Taliesin] mentioned that the books for the Congo hadn’t been sent yet, radio jumped at the opportunity to help out and combine it with what we do best: broadcast,” said Danielle Annecston, the current station general manager.

Read more from The Simmons Voice.

The Revival of Griffin Radio 2016

Griffin Radio was a core council club that diminished over time. With its leading seniors graduating and the 55th Street station now being used as storage there really wasn’t any room for this club to be revived. Freshmen Marchael Giles and Emilee Wermenchuk saw the opportunity to reinstate the club and give it a new spin that would better suit the Marymount Manhattan College community.

Read more from The Monitor.

UNLV’s KUNV/Las Vegas To Remain Student-Run Independent

The school had struck a deal last year to hand over operation of the station, part of the UNLV school of journalism, to NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO, with the annual KUNV subsidy used for other educational purposes; with that deal falling through, the station will remain independent and run by a mostly student staff, and the school is hiring a new underwriting director and may expand its internship program and develop two more radio-focused classes.