"In 2000, only 25 noncommercial radio licenses changed hands, Hand says. Last year, 76 noncommercial licenses sold for an average of $1.1 million - more than double the $563,000 average station price the previous year, he says. Already 50 noncommercial license transfers have been filed this year with the Federal Communications Commission, says Greg Guy, the Maryland broker for WVXU-FM."
EDITOR: Note that this story talks about NPR stations, but it also references college stations by call letters, but does not call them student stations. Stories like these and the CBI article concerning the attempts to take over/ time share with student stations should serve as a reminder to all student stations to remain visible and important to their licensees and to follow the rules!
CBI has created a survey for all non profit, non-CPB, stations that webcast (stream) audio on the Internet in response to a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) by the U.S. Copyright Office.
The Copyright Office has proposed a number of new regulations that could affect these stations ability to webcast! If your station is now webcasting or hopes to in the future, we need your input!
CBI needs your input ASAP in order to include it in written comments it will present to the Copyright Office on May 25, 2005.
If you have any questions or comments concerning the survey, please send them to chair@Collegebroadcasters.org .
Will Robedee Chair, CBI PS. Please feel free to pass this e-mail to other college/non-CPB funded stations. Responses from non-school affiliated commercial stations will not be of use or tallied in our reports.
"Jessica Godell, an Honors College junior in the broadcast journalism program at Michigan State University, has been named one of two scholarship winners of the Ronald H. Miller Broadcast Journalism Scholarship, open to students from accredited journalism schools in Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. Godell is from West Bloomfield, Mich. The scholarship is sponsored by the Berrien Community Foundation and the award amount is $3000. Godell is active on campus as an Honors College student, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, a member of the Senior Class Council and a member of Students for State, part of the Student Alumni Foundation.She also has been working as a reporter and anchor on Focal Point for the past year. This past semester, Godell interned at WLNS-TV 6 in Lansing and previously worked at The Impact radio station on campus. She also studies Spanish and is studying abroad this summer in Spain."
"WRNC, We R Northland College, can be heard on 97.7 FM. The station is Northland's newest student initiative and will mainly feature local independent artists. "
"FROM EVANSTON TO LAKE BLUFF Stevenson seniors turn on radio to tune up for college-level exam
Robert Channick Published May 15, 2005
LINCOLNSHIRE -- Some Stevenson High School students gathered by radios last week for an on-air cram session.
On the eve of the Advanced Placement American government exam, civics teachers Andrew Conneen and Dan Larsen hosted a three-hour show on WAES-FM 88.1 to help about 300 seniors prepare for a chance to earn college credit.
'Instead of requesting music by Ludacris or the Black Eyed Peas, they request information on the filibuster and votes of cloture,' said Conneen, in his seventh year at the Lincolnshire school."
