Board Notes 2/5/15

Monday: Ben G., Laura, Tess (?)

Tuesday: Zach, Ethan H. (?)

Wednesday: Abby, Ethan O.

Thursday: Danielle, Becca

Friday: David, Mizael

Program: EO is in touch with late-night shows about transitioning into automated programming.

-Program guide is about to be printed!

Events: Record Fair 3/28/15, DW hasn’t heard from LB

Tech: MR will work on installing new security system.

-app?

Personnel: update staff list, figuring out who exactly finished training

-aiming to start DJ training at the end of February.

-low meeting attendance and service hour fulfillment

-send out an email before the next staff meeting: guidelines for completing service hours and meeting attendance.

-checkpoint: 2 service hours by March 6. Start telling people that now. Ben G. will email everyone about this.

MDs (Zach): getting the blog off the ground in both print and podcast format.

-core committee of music people

-better organize the music at the station

-delegate music organization during board hours

-we have money to buy music!

-making sure that people are playing 5 new releases per hour: service hour opportunity for checking Spinitron? ZE will see how EH did this last year.

Podcasting platform: where/how to post things? Soundcloud is one possibility. also look into audioport.org.

-collaborating with other groups on campus: ANR, film department movie reviewing group, RedFeather

-ongoing schedule of production: some want a more consistent schedule (esp. CVs), maybe have a more spread out schedule for students.

-will they remain online forever or just for two weeks?

-who will review the material?

-adhering to FCC guidelines

-groups of 5-6 people for certain kinds of shows

The new people will hereby be known as Production Staff!

Public affairs: we have the opportunity to upload shows to the Pacifica network.

-Sprouts: weekly grassroots show. We could have a contest to determine which Public Affairs show to submit.

-streaming CFA shows: Ben M. will give Laura the contacts of people at the CFA.

-LW and EO will talk about which shows to submit.

Automation: any way we can mix up what plays/add more stuff to the automation playlist?

-talk to Rick about how it works

-start producing more evergreen shows for automation, pull up old shows that could be cool to rebroadcast.

Jive at Five: make it more institutionalized/streamlined. Possibly LW can edit it each week. This could be integrated into the Public Affairs Director job.

Hartford Advocate Readers’ Poll: image campaign

Collaborating more with the CFA: regular CFA show broadcasting performances?

College Media Association Conference: seems interesting/valuable, people will check their schedules

Other things: put up a sign in Studio A about how many station IDs, PSAs, and promos are required per hour. (LW)