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8 Aug
Student Media in the News
Marietta College hopes renovations strike a chord with new music program Meanwhile, some of the Communications and Mass Media classrooms and office space will remain in McKinney, as will the television studio. The college radio station space will be moved into a newly-renovated room downstairs, where a dark room used to be, while music therapy […]
READ MORE1 Aug
Student Media in the News
Trapper Radio goes silent Tuning into your favorite program on KNWT 89.1 Trapper Radio may prove to be a challenge for the foreseeable future, as a dispute over a lease has put Northwest College’s campus radio station off the air. Already in a difficult transition period following the elimination of the school’s Radio/TV Broadcasting program […]
READ MORE25 Jul
Student Media in the News
WBRU’s Radio Silence While the rest of us were busy lamenting the cold and rainy spring, Brown students and the BRU board of directors were deciding the fate of the station over a series of tense meetings. The decision that they came to, faced with the reality of diminishing profits and assets that were steadily […]
READ MORE19 Jul
Board Blog: Thanks, again, Minneapolis!
CBI hosted the first-ever Broadcast Management track at the College Media Mega Workshop last week in Minneapolis and the results exceeded even our most optimistic projections. Thirty students and advisers gathered on the beautiful campus of the University of Minnesota for an intensive, three-day workshop designed to give them the tools to hit the ground […]
READ MORE18 Jul
Student Media in the News
Radio Survivor supports net neutrality The distance between broadcast radio and internet radio gets narrower every day, as more people tune in on their computers and smartphones, even if they’re listening to the online stream of a terrestrial station. For many listeners public radio and podcasts are nearly synonymous, choosing to listen to “This American […]
READ MORE11 Jul
Student Media in the News
This Rare Recording of WRAS in Atlanta Shows Why the 1980s Really Were The Golden Age of College Radio Before the explosive growth of commercial “alternative rock” networks, college stations like WRAS provided access to music one could hear no where else on the dial. Listening to this recording reveals the Cambrian-Explosion-like variety of styles […]
READ MORE4 Jul
Student Media in the News
After 42 years, WUMD has its final FM show Just before noon on Monday, current and former WUMD DJs made their final sign offs prior to going completely online after 42 years of broadcasting. “We will come back out on the other side,” said Jennifer Mulcare-Sullivan, station manager, on the air before sign offs. “We’re […]
READ MORE27 Jun
Student Media in the News
Chicago radio thrives at the left of the dial I have my issues with the student DJs on college radio—they’re sometimes maddeningly inarticulate and sometimes ridiculously self-indulgent, whether they’re trying to entertain themselves or affect some sort of detached cool. But I still love the stations where they work, because the programming there has the […]
READ MORE20 Jun
Student Media in the News
KWVA Customizes Workflow to Fit Students’ Needs Fast forward to 2016 — and now working with part of a $95 million budget — KWVA is firmly reimagined as a state-of-the-art broadcast facility located in the newly reconstructed student union. There is a large open performance space outside the studios wired for broadcasting live shows, two […]
READ MORE13 Jun
Student Media in the News
Submit session proposals for CBI San Antonio College Broadcasters, Inc. (CBI) is accepting session proposals from all interested parties for the CBI 2017 National Student Electronic Media Convention to be held Nov. 2-4 at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio. CBI will consider all proposals from students, advisers, managers and industry professionals and gives strong preference […]
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