Class broadcasts student voices
Developing radio shows is one of the course benefits
Patricia Smith
Issue date: 4/7/05 Section: Features
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Behind the doors of Cosumnes River College's radio workshop, radio production students can be found busily working, either in studios compiling commercials and recording promotions or conducting live on-air broadcasts.
The radio workshop is a miniature radio station equipped with three recording studios and one live on-air studio. The on-air studio is fully stocked with a phone for live call-ins and disc jockeys to call out to conduct live interviews. There are also two CD players for spinning out tunes.
River radio is broadcast via the Internet at www.kcrcriverradio.org and has a listenership of 1,000 this semester, said Communications Media Professor Robert Snowden.
"The 1,000 hits is huge considering we are still growing as a station. I am anticipating that we are going to double that figure for the fall and triple it for the spring semester," Snowden said.
River radio plays an array of music including classical, jazz, hip-hop, alternative, rock, ska and local bands, Snowden said. It is not only a music station. There are three programs that are strictly talk radio, Snowden said.
"Talk radio is really empowering for students, because they can talk about student issues to the students," Snowden said.
River radio would not exist if it were not for the radio production class that keeps the station humming along.
The radio production class, taught by Snowden, equips students with the knowledge and understanding they need in order to strive in the radio business.
"I have learned a lot from Snowden," said Ryan Bogs, 20, CRC radio production major. "Throughout my life I had viewed radio as just having many microphones, switchboards and CDs, but with what Snowden has taught me, I have learned the meats and potatoes of radio." Bogs has also learned there is more to radio than just being in the studio. You have to go out and mingle with the public, because without a strong relationship with the public, a radio station will not survive.
The radio workshop is a miniature radio station equipped with three recording studios and one live on-air studio. The on-air studio is fully stocked with a phone for live call-ins and disc jockeys to call out to conduct live interviews. There are also two CD players for spinning out tunes.
River radio is broadcast via the Internet at www.kcrcriverradio.org and has a listenership of 1,000 this semester, said Communications Media Professor Robert Snowden.
"The 1,000 hits is huge considering we are still growing as a station. I am anticipating that we are going to double that figure for the fall and triple it for the spring semester," Snowden said.
River radio plays an array of music including classical, jazz, hip-hop, alternative, rock, ska and local bands, Snowden said. It is not only a music station. There are three programs that are strictly talk radio, Snowden said.
"Talk radio is really empowering for students, because they can talk about student issues to the students," Snowden said.
River radio would not exist if it were not for the radio production class that keeps the station humming along.
The radio production class, taught by Snowden, equips students with the knowledge and understanding they need in order to strive in the radio business.
"I have learned a lot from Snowden," said Ryan Bogs, 20, CRC radio production major. "Throughout my life I had viewed radio as just having many microphones, switchboards and CDs, but with what Snowden has taught me, I have learned the meats and potatoes of radio." Bogs has also learned there is more to radio than just being in the studio. You have to go out and mingle with the public, because without a strong relationship with the public, a radio station will not survive.