{"id":6277,"date":"2013-01-09T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:17:11","slug":"college-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6277","title":{"rendered":"College Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no point in listing most college stations and sbsolutely no point in tracking schedules.  They fall into two main groups &#8211; stations that are part of an educational experience where you learn how college professors with no experience think a radio station works, or the station is run by a social group &#8211; the &#8220;radio club&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago is an excellent example of why these have rapidly been going away.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mrBz4TehWr\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2012\/11\/09\/the-civility-and-decorum-police-at-neiu-and-the-continuing-shutdown-of-wzrd\/\">The Civility and Decorum Police at NEIU, and the Continuing Shutdown of WZRD<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Civility and Decorum Police at NEIU, and the Continuing Shutdown of WZRD&#8221; &#8212; ACADEME BLOG\" src=\"https:\/\/academeblog.org\/2012\/11\/09\/the-civility-and-decorum-police-at-neiu-and-the-continuing-shutdown-of-wzrd\/embed\/#?secret=kThPQmAWBM#?secret=mrBz4TehWr\" data-secret=\"mrBz4TehWr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WZRD-FM has been off the air for 6 months.   While the FCC gives school permission to not broadcast when school is not in regular session, the FCC regularly issues fines against college stations that break FCC rules.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a college administrator facing budget issues and have costs associated with the station (FCC license costs, advisor, equipment maintenance, music royalties), when &#8220;trouble&#8221; breaks out, it gets really tempting to sell the license to a religious broadcaster or turn it over to the state NPR network to add to their repeater network.<\/p>\n<p>These days, I can&#8217;t imagine too many students deciding which university to attend based in the school having a student run radio station<\/p>\n<p>Hofstra University on Long Island is probably the place to go for someone wanting a serious education experience, but their radio station is a lot more than unsupervised students playing their favorite heavy metal music.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.hofstra.edu\/Academics\/Colleges\/SOC\/WRHU\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no point in listing most college stations and sbsolutely no point in tracking schedules. 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