Staff Meeting Notes 2/4
Beth/President:
- Board Hours: Wednesday 4-6
- Newsletter after staff meetings coming soon
- Career Center event
- Skype-in with 2 Wesleyan Alum from NPR and Panoply Media that we are cosponsoring
- Feb 16, 12:15pm
- Transmitter
- Improved Approach to Training
- Many new trainees in the fall, fewer in the spring
- How can we ensure that (new) staff is conforming to our free form ideology?
- Board hours are a great resource for developing answers to these questions together
- Board meetings are tuesdays at 5 if you would like to join us
- Improved Public Affairs Standard
- New Program/Staff Inflation Accomodations
Helly/Ruth/Music:
- Board Hours: 4-6pm Mondays
- New Music will be on the shelf tomorrow by 5
- WE’ve been looking at increasing our digital music library
- Folder on the desktop in Studio A with new digital acquisitions labeled “new music from MDs”
- MD blog update coming Monday — top 5 albums sent in this week
- Helps with charting and access
Will/Personnel:
- Board Hours: 4-6 Thursday
- Ways to make training more efficient overall
- Added technical support
- Updating staff list (this is why we want your phone numbers — in case of emergency if there is no DJ in the station after you and you can’t recognize them due to their strange DJ name)
Babe/VP:
Meg/Program:
- Friday 4-6
- New Spring program!!! Thank you for helping with the transition
- Designed by Ella!
- Being sent out to printers tomorrow
- Would love to have DJs talk at staff meetings — 2 minute rundown of their show so we can get to know our community a little better
- 1 CV, 1 student per meeting ideally
- Call into shows!
- Main project this season: Looking for a better way to integrate new shows into the program
- Twice the amt. Of new student DJs going into half that time
- Podcasting initiative
- Waitlist for Djs in Training?
- Come to the boardroom or send emails if you’d like to further talk about ideas and concerns
Cormac/Tech:
- Board Hours: Monday 4-6
- Been working on the Spinitron and Streamrewind schedules
- Ongoing talks with the Wesleyan Consulting Group re: improving our website
- Would be a free service because the grp. Is student-run
Xandra/Public Affairs:
- Board Hours: Tuesday (3 or) 4-6
- Great Public Affairs shows coming out of the station but no real infrastructure in place to ensure guidelines/standards for them
Jake/PR:
- Board Hours: Wednesday 4-6
- A few events coming up, promotion to come as well
Dillon/Events:
- Board Hours: Wednesday 4-6
- Spring Record Fair!
- Some uncertainty re: the venue — Beckham is likely unavailable this year
- Keep an eye out for emails about upcoming events — great way to fulfill service hour requirements
- If anyone has ideas for new events, email! wesuevents@gmail.com
Luke/Production:
- Board Hours: Friday 4-6
- Thank you everyone for working so hard on the pledge drive! We raised more money than usual for the transmitter through phone banks, etc.
- Upcoming pledge drive video?
Jack/Community Liaison:
- Board Hours: Monday 730-930
- Away on business for three weeks starting this week — Jim Z. will be covering
Ben/GM:
- New 5000W transmitter soon to be installed! Just waiting on new parts for the installation
- Exceeded our already-inflated pledge goal — 27 grand!
- Waiting on reports so everyone can get pledge premiums
- If you donated and want your premium, you can come get it directly instead of waiting for it in the mail
- Inherited some equipment (furniture) from Green Street — new chairs and stools!
- If you use any “advanced” configurations on the board, remember to reset them for everyone else’s use after you are finished
- White dots next to “Default positions” on each pot
- Don’t unplug the turntables EVER!
- Tentative date for the record fair: April 7th
- Thinking old Broad St. books location for location — meeting with physical plant tomorrow to go over potential restrictions on the space
- Work Study: You can be payed to work at the station!
- Programming Decisions dictated by a variety of factors: Meeting attendance, show originality, new/obscure music/content, WEIRD STUFF
- College radio as a place for content that may not be ~commercially viable~
- Looking for cooperation in terms of moving forward with programming changes — doesn’t serve anyone’s needs to fight with the board
- Whittling away at the NPR relationship is a dicey proposition because we run the risk of losing a lot of tech support from WSHU