June 7, 2016
Student Media in the News
Last Updated on June 7, 2016 by askcbiorg
College Radio Station KFJC to Broadcast from Overseas from the Eindhoven Psych Lab on June 10 and 11
Foothill College radio station KFJC 89.7 FM is excited to be returning to the Netherlands in order to broadcast live from the Eindhoven Psych Lab for the second year in a row. The two-day festival, which will take place at Effenaar in Eindhoven (Netherlands), will feature a range of performances by more than 30 modern-day psychedelic bands and artists from all over the world. KFJC broadcast 23 hours of music and interviews from last year’s event and expects to air a similar amount in 2016.
Tune in online at: http://kfjc.org/netcast. View the live video feed at http://live.kfjc.org.
EMCC’s radio station breaking new ground
Since its first broadcast nearly a year ago, East Mississippi Community College’s radio station on the Golden Triangle campus has grown its listenership through innovative content that includes original live radio drama that harkens back to the 1940s and early 1950s, when audio was king.
On Wednesday, EMCC’s WGTC 92.7 FM will debut the first episode of “Search for Happiness.” The storyline revolves around a fictional Bartlesville, Oklahoma, oil tycoon by the name of J.D. Gray whose three grown daughters discover he has eloped with a woman not much older than they are.
Read more from The Dispatch.
Sound Salvation: Spinning the tales and tracks of a college radio DJ
The (impossibly cool) DJs walked us through the basics: what they do, what the training process is like, what it means to be part of WKDU, and their longstanding policy of no top 40 music — from ever, forever. A group in the back sporting t-shirts of some such bands wrinkled their noses and pulled out their iPhones. I leaned in.
Read more from the Smart Set.
Tiny Desks Of Atlanta: Local Groups Document Music Scene
“Because we’ve done a lot of local bands, it’s kind of like we’ve created a catalog of the scene at this current moment in time,” said Valeiras. “If the videos were ever to surface in the future, it’s something people can go through to see what Atlanta was like.”
Read more from WABE.
Plus, the latest on CBI’s convention in Philadelphia and Spinning Indie’s 101st Radio Station Field Trip.
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