[Imc-radio] radio spoke

[Dave Berliner]

June 29, 2004
IMCRN minutes

Present: Carol, Dave, Sandra, Ondine, Nicky

The steering committee is a group of IMC members.  Each working group, 
of which radio is one, is supposed to have a spokesperson (spoke) at 
the steering committee meeting.  That is how consensus is reached for 
the IMC.  At this time Zach is our spoke and has asked us to replace 
him or communicate with him better about radio issues.  Anyone 
interested in serving as the radio spoke should let us know.  If Zach 
continues to be the radio spoke, he will need direct communication 
about radio issues.  (Do not assume he is reading radio emails).

Steering committee meetings are the first Thursday of the month.
Next one: July 1 at 8:00.

Current steering committee issues:
-  We still need staff and the website needs updating.  Meetings are at 
11:00 on Tues.
-  Archives of our shows are very difficult to access or upload.
-  The shows are not classified in any coherent way and there is no 
link between the new radio website and the IMC website. (ucimc.org).
-  Did we get the money at WEFT from the programming committee?
-  Were we supposed to get $800 from the CPB money they get and can we 
ask for it again and get $800 more and hire somebody?
-  We also need a liaison at WEFT to try to arrange for another airtime 
slot.  The people who are keeping radio going can produce but we can't 
produce and market/promote and do the technical part of the website.

(AGENDA)

1.  Sandra is soliciting opinions from citizens to put together 
citizenspeak pieces.  When Sandra reads local webpages, letters to the 
editor,  it seems to be primarily the voices of men.  She is seeking 
the voices of women and minorities.

2.  Nicky is here for the summer and would like to produce radio.  She 
would like to do a college radio show when she returns to Connecticut 
in the Fall.  Her idea was to have a one hour show on Sunday nights 
with jazz and reading a story aloud... ending with some classical 
music.  Nicky could use IMC resources and make some demo discs of this 
idea to use as a show proposal.  She currently works at Prairie Rivers 
Network and might want to do a piece on stormdrains, and alerting 
people as to what pollutes them.   She could do an interview with a 
Prairie Rivers representative.  Another idea would be to read a written 
article.  This doesn't make the most interesting radio, but it's OK.  
The third way would be to gather audio: interview, noises of people 
working at the site, snippets.  Nicky was also interested, parttcularly 
after watching Fahrenheit 911, about the location of the military 
recruiting office.
Nicky is going to try to produce a 7 minute piece about Sewer Drains 
and the Prairie Rivers group where she interns.

3.  Dave is making a 13 minute piece with interviews of the NAACP or 
the Police department as a followup to the story on the 28th.

4.  Ellen Knutson had planned to produce for the next show.  Is this 
still on?
She is making a 23 minute show about the allied media conference and it 
needs headlines.
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