February 28, 2017
Student Media in the News
Last Updated on February 28, 2017 by askcbiorg
CBI election nomination period extended
College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) is now accepting nominations through Monday, March 6 for the offices of Secretary, Development Director and Student Member. The Secretary and Development Director are each 3-year terms beginning December 1, 2017. The Student Member is a one year term beginning May 1, 2017. To be considered, nominations must be received by Ed Arke (earke@messiah.edu), Election Commissioner (self-nominations are accepted).
Read more from the CBI website.
SU Radio to return to air
This weekend, I conducted an interview with First-Year Meredith Rasmussen. She learned that the station had been abandoned last year due to declining membership. The radio station started in 2008 when a group of students received the King Creativity Grant to create an internet radio station. Since then, its popularity among membership and listeners has fluctuated until January 2016 when it was basically abandoned. Since then, no one has worked on the station and it just disappeared. So she took it upon herself to change its fate.
“Restarting the radio station was something that I had been wanting to do basically since arriving on campus,” Rasmussen said. “College radio was something that I have been interested in, and I was really disappointed that we didn’t have a station.”
Read more from The Megaphone.
EC Radio is back after extended hiatus
The wait is over. Emmanuel College Radio plans to officially launch their reboot this semester. The revival of EC Radio began with current president Nana Addae ’19 and vice president Jill Hyburg ’19. Before them, EC Radio club was dormant for two years.
Read more from The Hub.
Drury radio station carving out its place on FM dial
Drury University has long been home to an internet-based radio station that was broadcast, through a complicated antenna system, in various campus buildings.
The reach and the impact were severely limited, however. Jonathan Groves, chair of the communications department, believed the student-run college radio station could be so much more if it were available on the FM dial.
Read more from the Springfield News-Leader.
Project Yellow Light seeks PSAs for scholarship competition
Project Yellow Light is a scholarship competition designed to bring change. Applicants have the mission to create a radio spot to encourage their peers to avoid distracted driving, specifically, texting while driving. Application deadline is April 1. There are two scholarships (one for college and one for high school) worth $2,000 each. In addition to winning a scholarship, the winning entries will be turned into an Ad Council PSA and aired across the country courtesy of iHeartRadio. More info about PYL is here: http://www.projectyellowlight.com/about, and application guidelines for the contest are here: http://www.projectyellowlight.com/apply#radio.
Plus, the latest College Radio Watch column and Podcast #82: Busting Myths and Counting Charts.