[rfu-membership] Re: WBML proposal

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

I met with representatives from WBML and the African-American Cultural  
House (on the U of I campus) yesterday, together with some other IMC  
staff and activists, to talk about ways that we could collaborate.

One aspect was the interest of WBML volunteers, who host an online  
radio station, in hosting shows in WRFU. In particular, they were  
interested in building a regular block of programming, such as 12-2pm  
Mon-Thursday.

Our policies don't allow more than two consecutive hours for any  
group, or for any group to hold more than 2 slots per week. It would  
be possible - as I explained - to create several programming groups,  
each with at least two members, and for those shows then to be  
publicized under a common title.

I asked Stephen, the WBML station manager, to make an initial  
programming proposal, as he has now done, to get the process running  
at our end. We can discuss the matter at our next Membership and  
general meetings. As you can see, the proposed 'block' could be filled  
by 2-4 programming groups. They have committed to having at least 8  
paid members - 5-6 WBML staff have already undergone WRFU training  
last Fall.

I'm interested in having us discuss if, and how, our policies could/ 
should be amended to better accommodate proposals such as this. The  
notion of a large, strong, collective, which undertakes responsibility  
for a regular strip is in line with how we envisaged collectives in  
the very early days of the station, but as we lowered the requirements  
of collectives (to two members) we moved to a model of lots of small  
collectives, which required stronger controls on how much time any  
collective could hold. I'd be interested in thinking about how we  
might define and structure large collectives that would take  
responsibility for larger strips - this might also prove a useful  
model for future news collectives or other collaborations with  
existing community groups.

Andrew

On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:00 PM, rfu-membership- 
request at lists.chambana.net wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:11:41 -0600 (CST)
> From: wrfu.net.no-reply at wrfu.net
> Subject: [rfu-membership] <em>Propose a show!</em> submission
> To: rfu-schedule at lists.chambana.net,	rfu-membership at lists.chambana.net
> Message-ID: <200901161711.n0GHBfsM071772 at zeco.chambana.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
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> Show Name : WBML on WRFU
>
> Show Description : Mon - Thursday 12-2pm WBML members host shows  
> (prerecorded until we can work out a reliable remote stream).
>
> Show Genre : African-American Culture Radio
>
> Your WRFU.net Username : DJShape
>
> Your Real Name : Stephen
>
> Your Email Address : schaper2 at uiuc.edu
>
> 2nd Cohost WRFU.net Username : wbmluiuc
>
> 2nd Cohost Real Name : Marcus
>
> 2nd Cohost Email Address : wbmluiuc at gmail.com
>
> What is the status of your proposal? : Proposed programming group
>
> How much time are you seeking for this proposal? : 2hr
>
> How Often? : weekly
>
> What are your preferred time slots? : 12-2
>
> Working Group : Fundraising and Outreach;Membership and  
> Training;Technical;0;0;0
>
> Training Request : Request another time slot (Submit this form, and  
> the Membership Working Group will contact you directly to set up a  
> time.);0
>
> Are any group members currently involved with other media outlets? :  
> no
>
> Do you plan to use languages other than English on the air? : no
>
> How many members of the proposing group identify as male? : 8
>
> How many members of the proposing group identify as female? : 8
>
> How many members of the proposing group identify as African  
> American? : 10
>
> How many members of the proposing group identify as Latino/a? : 1
>
> How many members of the proposing group identify as Caucasian? : 1
>
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> Submitted by <em>DJShape (http://www.wrfu.net/user/289)</em> on  
> <em>Fri, 2009-01-16 12:11</em>
>
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