"The 'Morning Show' airs on WGTD-FM (91.1) from 8:10 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday. The radio station is a public service of Gateway Technical College."
"Upstart television stations always encounter an uphill battle when working to establish themselves in the cutthroat broadcast television industry. Case in point: The WB has come a long way from its meager 'Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane' beginnings to striking the 'jackpot' with ratings-friendly 'The O.C.' predecessors like 'Smallville.'
Even more daunting, though, is starting a television station from scratch on a college campus, where the entire budget for the station barely matches the salary of a UPN intern -- but where the amount of work necessary is twice as much as fetching coffee for the cast of 'The Parkers.' The organizers of Yale TV are familiar with these obstacles: The four-year-old organization has only been broadcasting on closed-circuit channel 24 for two years, during which time it has struggled to find consistently quality programming and, more importantly, to lure Yalies from national networks to a campus channel."
TWELVE YEARS AGO, Foothill College radio station KFJC (89.7 FM) started the Psychotronix Film Festival, an annual gathering dedicated to the appreciation of films created by 'noble journeymen.' "
"Thankfully, there are shows like Little Steven's Underground Garage and psych-specific programming on college radio that are starting to unearth psychedelic music that falls from the wayside of the classic-rock radio format. "
"In February and March, the dean of creative arts and applied sciences at Long Beach City College restricted the content of three news segments in a student run television show, IE News. Students involved in the show�who are part of a broadcast news production class�say prior review by the college administration has become a regular occurrence that they are starting to question. "
'The plan for the show, since they all play a lot of instruments, is to have a live jam on the air,' said current WKNH DJ Mike Douton, aka Mike Wazowski, who is organizing and co-hosting the show.
According to Wazowski, WKNH first held an alumni DJ show in the spring of 2004, which he was also involved in organizing.
'I put it together. I thought it was a cool thing to do,' said Wazowski. 'I knew my dad and his buddies did a show [in college], so why not invite them back up.'"
"Students at Ithaca College took the phrase 'rockin' around the clock' to a whole new level last weekend. The college radio station's annual 50-hour marathon for charity kept DJs Kristen Zatina and Peter Davis (Kokes and Petau) awake for more than two days."
" Elvis Costello, announced the imminent demise of the record retail business in an interview conducted at the South By Southwest Music Conference and Festival in Texas last week. "
The agency is trying to decide whether new LPFMs should be licensed as a primary service and potentially gain priority over existing and future FM translators in terms of licensing and interference concerns. Public comments are due 30 days after publication in the Federal Register.
"Prashant Chopra, chief architect with Campus EAI Consortium, said the Open Student Television Network is television created for students by students. The OSTN is powered by Internet 2 and Campus EAI Consortium, a nonprofit technology group of more than 100 colleges and universities led by Case Western Reserve University. "
EDITOR: CBI is working with OSTN to provide you with access to distributed programming and to allow you to provide programming for network distribution.
"Students from UCLA and USC were among the top winners of the 26th annual College Television Awards, scheduled to be bestowed during a Sunday night ceremony at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel."
"The parents television council believes that too much prime-time TV is indecent. So indecent that it never misses a show. In the group's Alexandria, Va., offices, five analysts sit at desks with a VCR, a TV and a computer. They tape every hour of prime-time network TV, and a lot of cable. CSI. The Apprentice. God help them, even Reba. And they watch. Every filthy second. "
A freeze on the grant of new FM translators is part of a new FCC package which is being considered to boost the newly-instituted LPFM service. Among the items on the table - - granting LPFMs primary service status, allowing them to bump pre-existing FM translators off the allocation chart, as full service television stations do with LPTVs today. It will also look into handling possible 2nd and 3rd adjacent interference issues."
EDITOR: Note that CBI called for a freeze on translator applications in its comments on localism.
"The Oklahoman reports Stipe's Little Dixie Radio corporation obtained a Federal Communication Commission license for KESC FM after working out a deal for Eastern State to build and equip a studio. School officials say the studio was paid for with money appropriated by the Legislature."
"Students are offered full-length feature films, television shows, interviews and news specials via Cdigex's broadband VOD service, which is distributed over a local area network (LAN). Brett Goldberg, Cdigix president, said this provided speed and security using existing university infrastructures without affecting the facilities' Internet connection. "
"Less than a week after dominating a statewide competition, CMU broadcasting students earned an unprecedented four individual grand prizes and two honorable mentions at a national broadcasting competition."
EDITOR: Look for CBI's call-for-entries later this week!
With more than 1,200 songs on the playlist, most songs get played only once every few days, rather than several times a day. Program director Mike O’Reilly and his assistants pick the songs and the order in which they are played. "It’s all about train wrecks," O’Reilly says, using radio terminology for two unlikely songs played back to back. "If you hear MC Hammer go into the Steve Miller Band, I’ve done my job."
