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That’s All Folks!

April 27, 2010 - 10:54 pm

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We’ll that wraps up another NAB/BEA Conference for me… don’t know when I’m going to be able to make it back, but the NAB is a good place for Broadcasters to find out about some cool equipment for their stations, and the BEA for students to get ideas from other like minded stations facing similar [...]

Day 5: Internet and Broadcast Radio

April 27, 2010 - 8:50 pm

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The reasons for starting internet stations are powerful. While broadcasting ON AIR the traditional way has its own benefits, the fact is many bands in metropolitan areas are completely full (which is the case for WXOU and why our broadcast is relatively weak compared to some of the big stations), internet radio can be [...]

Day 5: Community vs. Big Radio

April 27, 2010 - 8:49 pm

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This panel focused on the differences between commercial (”Big”) radio and its non-profit and community oriented alternatives. Big radio offers “cheap and exploitative” content but is financially profitable. On the filp end of the spectrum is community radio, which WXOU might fall under, tries to focus on local issues and providing content that [...]

Day 4: Emergency Broadcasting

April 27, 2010 - 5:51 pm

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What is the best way to disseminate emergency and health information for a radio station? Again, the panels turn to the ongoing dialog trying to figure out the “correct” model to optimally use the internet. PSAs, live remotes from vaccine events, and interviews with health officials may be options to get the information [...]

Day 4: The Spirit of Andy Rooney Drops by

April 17, 2010 - 6:43 pm

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The Death of the Cable Companies and TV is nigh according to this panel based on how to turn internet content into profit. As some of you may know many blogs such as this one generally operate profit free. Will the internet be transferred to a regulated service? The FCC is [...]

Day 3: The internetz vs. broadcast

April 17, 2010 - 3:14 am

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400 people in TV news laid off. Most of the hiring is in replacements. 3 screen approach to news: TV, computer, mobile = TV 1, Web 2, Mobile 3. newspapers lost 5,200 jobs. Cooperative ventures – TVs, Radio, another station. Co-production of news. News website wars – TV news web [...]

Day 3: Strange Days at WXOU

April 17, 2010 - 2:13 am

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Managing college radio can be difficult. A major issue that arises it that of Ownership vs. Entitlement. Working as a volunteers can create a sense of ownership in their shows and the station. When someone takes the show too far, it can be a sense of entitlement, where the person “deserves” a [...]

Vegas Adventure Day 3: How to get a Job

April 17, 2010 - 2:12 am

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This panel covered some of the basics of any job hunt, radio or otherwise, such as making good resumes and cover letters, doing follow up letters. A key in this is trying to make a genuine connection with the interview, especially with On-Air talent. If you can’t hold a conversation with the interviewer, [...]

Day 1: Sourcing

April 14, 2010 - 8:09 pm

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Finishing this days conference’s off, I attended one on getting guests on for your radio show. This panel covered a lot a good points on making powerful radio.
But this conference kind of jumped the shark when it began decrying the use of the internet, which I find absurd in 2010. The internet isn’t [...]

Remembering Uncle Walter

April 14, 2010 - 6:55 pm

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Today Erik and I hit up the Walter Cronkite Conference- a “reassessment” of his legend in an NAB/BEA “super-session.” After the introduction of the panel and each member’s various credentials, which ranged from former CBS studio execs to biographers, the history of Cronkite got underway. Much like the news today, the times that [...]

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