This is YOUR friendly college radio station. Here's how it works:
If you are a student or community member, you can
apply to be a DJ at the station, work on the
staff, be a
work-study librarian, or simply to volunteer to help with the numerous unfinished tasks that any volunteer organization accumulates.
The
Station Manager organizes all of the staff and volunteers and is the advocate and spokesperson.
The
Music Director reviews and adds music to the station library.
The
Production Director produces audio promotions,
legal IDs, public service announcements (
PSAs),
underwriting, and any other pre-recorded item that staff and DJ's air to adhere to
FCC regulations and their own standards.
The
Programing Director seeks and regulates actual programming material, for example: your radio show, or the news program on air before your show. They also ensure the compliance of the radio station to
FCC regulations.
A
News Director manages the station's news team, usually a class of broadcasting students from the university. The
news airs every day on the station and is podcast online.
Station
librarians catalog new albums into the library and take inventory of existing albums. The library is made up of
vinyl LPs, 45s, and 12 inches. There are also tapes and CDs.
The
Adviser is not a student, but an employee of the university and knowledgeable about student radio.
A
Web Master develops the increasingly important
station website.
The
Chief Engineer makes sure that all of the equipment, including the
transmitter, is running properly.
Stations may also have a
Sports Director, who broadcasts live sports coverage and produces sports news.
Your
Chief Announcer is the voice of the station. They voice promos, host on air events such as live broadcasts, and they fill in at the station when necessary.
And finally, the heart and soul of any college radio station, the one and only, the end all to be all, drum roll please.... the
Disk Jockey. DJs volunteer each week to produce radio shows live, which are broadcast over the FM dial and often times, also streamed live, online.
There are not many
freeform radio stations left in the United States but KUOI is one of them. A freeform station allows DJ's to decide what to play during their shows. Although DJs are largely responsible for their show's content they also have some obligations to the station.
Commercial radio stations are required to air public service announcements (PSAs). Public radio stations are a public service, and although they're not required to air PSAs, they often do. So, DJs are required to air PSAs when it is scheduled in the logs. They also must play a legal ID at least every hour, and follow any other instructions that are scheduled in the station logs.
What is it like to actually DJay a radio show? First, always take care of your logs by signing in as the station operator, and looking over and addressing your schedule. Then, you'll be following that schedule in the logs, along with your own programming. This could mean playing music, speaking live on-air about a topic, or playing pre-recorded audio pieces. It's that easy.
