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6 Mar
Station Spotlight: Seton Hall University’s WSOU
Thanks to Erin O’Grady and Aly Mulligan for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? WSOU 89.5 FM is located in New Jersey on the campus of Seton Hall University and has been on the airwaves since 1948. The most interesting thing about WSOU is […]
READ MORE13 Feb
Station Spotlight: Hofstra University’s WRHU
Special thanks to Shannan Ferry, station manager, for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? Radio Hofstra University 88.7 FM has been in existence for over 50 years. This is longer than any other noncommercial radio station on Long Island. Originally the call letters were […]
READ MORE12 Feb
Forced to find their own funds, N.C. State’s college radio station expands its audience and ambitions
“It’s invaluable,” says Torres of the support that WKNC has given not only to T0W3RS but to the surrounding music community, too. “No other radio station is doing things like this.” Perhaps the scene sounds rather insular and self-congratulating—a musician playing a song inspired by a radio station for a crowd gathered by the same […]
READ MORE6 Feb
Station Spotlight: University of Tennessee’s Volunteer Channel
Special thanks to Mike Wiseman for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? The Volunteer Channel is in it’s 18th year at the University of Tennessee. The Volunteer Channel is the official television station of the University of Tennessee. Completely run by UT students, TVC […]
READ MORE30 Jan
Station Spotlight: Millikin University’s WJMU
Special thanks to Ben Murrow, a Senior from Wheaton, Ill. and Program Director of WJMU for answering the questions. Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? WJMU 89.5 “The Quad” went live for the first time on March 10, 1971 because of six students that had a passion […]
READ MORE23 Jan
Station Spotlight: Missouri Southern State University’s KGCS-TV
Special thanks to Shonte Clay – Senior student worker of KGCS-TV Station at Missouri Southern State University for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? Originally, our station was a cable access channel, established in 1984 as a service of the Department of Communications. […]
READ MORE23 Jan
Webcasting Rates for 2011-2015 Almost Final (Again)
Rates and terms for webcasting are set in five year increments through a federal rate setting process. CBI negotiated a settlement which was available to any student station and asked the Copyright Royalty Board to adopt those rates and terms as applicable to all student stations and it did. Another organization objected to many facets […]
READ MORE22 Jan
Newly Granted College and High School LPFMs are Next Wave of Student Broadcasters
Last week the FCC began granting new LPFM applications and so far, it has granted several applications for new LPFM college, high school, and middle school radio stations. I profiled two of the college stations, Washington College and York Technical College, in College Radio Survivor on Friday and in this post I will run through […]
READ MORE16 Jan
Station Spotlight: Colgate University’s WRCU
Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? Colgate University’s WRCU transmitted its first broadcast in February of 1951. Over the years, the station has physically moved all over campus until it settled in a state-of-the-art facility—the Blackmore Media Center—in Colgate’s O’Connor campus center in 2009. The station has […]
READ MORE9 Jan
Station Spotlight: Montclair State’s WMSC
Special thanks to station manager Michael Claudio for answering the questions. Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? WMSC is a station that began in 1966 and was dubbed “The Voice of Montclair State.” It began as a student club and as a way to get commuter students […]
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