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24 Jun

CBI Update: Student media news

Students, alumni and fans continue to support Save WRAS movement More than 11,000 people have signed a petition in support of WRAS, the student radio station of Georgia State University. The college inked a deal with Georgia Public Broadcasting, a state public broadcasting network of 17 public radio and nine television stations in Georgia, to […]

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19 Jun

Spotlight: Central Washington University’s KCWU

Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? Travis Box, General Manager: I can give you some history, but I’ll let the students judge where we are now… While Central Washington University has had a radio station, in one form or another, since 1958. Our current station began as […]

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18 Jun

FCC Commissioner says contest details should go online

The FCC’s “Contest Rule” says when a station has a contest, that station needs to broadcast details about the contest regularly. FCC Commissioner Michael O’Reilly wrote, in his blog this week, that those detailed disclosures are important, and therefore should be included on the web, and announcers can direct listeners to the full contest rules […]

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13 Jun

Last Call for CBI Board Nominations

College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) is now accepting nominations for Secretary and Development Director, each with a 3-year term beginning December 1, 2014, as well as one Student Director position with a 1-year term beginning also on December 1, 2014 (candidates must be from a member media outlet). To be considered, nominations must be received by […]

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12 Jun

Spotlight: North Carolina State University’s WKNC

Special thanks to General Manager John Kovalchik for answering the questions! [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? N.C. State student radio dates back […]

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6 Jun

Out in Radioland

College Media Q&A with Jennifer Waits “I think students are just as interested in radio as they have always been. When I go visit stations, I hear they’ve had record numbers of people signing up. A lot of stations have to turn people away because they don’t have enough room in the schedule, which has […]

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5 Jun

Spotlight: University of California Berkeley’s KALX

  Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? Sandra Wasson, General Manager: In 1962 a group of students in one of the residence halls started an AM carrier current station — Radio KAL — that reached several UC Berkeley campus housing units. The first broadcast board was a […]

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30 May

Out in Radioland

News from WRAS about their impending agreement with Georgia Public Broadcasting This morning (May 30) Georgia State University Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Douglass Covey, met with the leadership of Georgia State University’s student-programmed radio station, WRAS, to inform them that the university and Georgia Public Broadcasting are postponing to June 29 the implementation […]

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29 May

Station Spotlight: Stanford University’s KZSU

Special thanks to George Lu, assistant GM, for answering the questions! [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? We started in 1947, as a […]

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29 May

Arkansas AM station that launched legends returns

Decades ago, unknown blues musicians paid $15 to appear on an east Arkansas radio station, hoping a few minutes of exposure would help them become the legends they now are: B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Ike Turner. KWEM-AM fell silent in 1960 after more than a decade in the Mississippi River town […]

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