If you do plan to attend, drop by to visit the student producer/hosts, who will be set up just as you see below, from the top of Boarding House Park (main stage).
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Showing posts with label UMass Lowell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UMass Lowell. Show all posts
Friday, July 25, 2014
WUML to live broadcast (again) from Lowell Folk Festival
If you cannot attend this year's Lowell Folk Festival, tune in to WUML.
If you do plan to attend, drop by to visit the student producer/hosts, who will be set up just as you see below, from the top of Boarding House Park (main stage).
If you do plan to attend, drop by to visit the student producer/hosts, who will be set up just as you see below, from the top of Boarding House Park (main stage).
Monday, May 5, 2014
UMass Lowell Defiles May 4 and 5
By creating and displaying sophomoric "memes", for two days in a row UMass Lowell's Facebook page has defiled the losses of life at Kent State University and the Battle of Puebla.
UMass' online words are above and my responses are below the images.
"It's Star Wars Day! We hope the force is with you as you prepare for your exams."
Supporting Hollywood space fantasies is a cute diversion from reality, but instead of creating mindless memes, UMass Lowellwould do better to remind students that on this day 44 years ago four of their brothers and sisters at Kent State died protesting Richard Nixon's invation of Cambodia. If the college does not teach about the wars and how domestic demonstrations helped end the war, one can self-educate via the Zinn Education Project, a great resource for teaching history ignored by the public school system.https://www.facebook.com/ZinnEducationProject/photos/a.10150511273339677.377666.121352639676/10152097531669677/?type=1&theater
"Can celebration and studying go hand in hand? Today, they'll have to! Shake your maracas all the way to straight A's on your finals this week! #cincodemayo"
Two days in a row the UMass Lowell Facebook page administrators have presented questionable Hollywood-based memes. Today's makes light of Cinco de Mayo, which is NOT about sombreros, cactus trees, donkeys, tacos, maracas, chili peppers or Hollywood (which was a part of Mexico until the US' imperialistic War of 1846) commedians, it is the celebration of the victory of the Mexican forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, against the better trained and better equipped invading French army. Put another way, it is a celebration of the triumph independence and democracy over imperialism and monarchy.
UMass Lowell, as a teaching institution, would do well to portray the day with dignety and respect deserved. If unable or unwilling to do so, it could Direct those who "like" its page to the Zinn Education Project for more information.
"I recently came across a flier in an old backpack of my daughter’s: Wanted: Committee Chairs for this Spring’s Cinco de Mayo All School Celebration. The flier was replete with cultural props including a sombrero, cactus tree, donkey, taco, maracas, and chili peppers. Seeing this again brought back the moment when, years earlier, my daughter had handed the flier to me, and I’d thought, “Oh, no.” The local K-6 elementary school’s Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) was sponsoring a stereotypical Mexican American event." Continue reading "Rethinking Cinco de Mayo" here: http://bit.ly/Q5A9W1Painting from mural on Mexican history by Diego Rivera at the National Palace."Source:https://www.facebook.com/ZinnEducationProject/photos/a.10150110390139677.282958.121352639676/10152099408579677/?type=1&theater
Thursday, October 24, 2013
UMass Boston students peel the WUMB onion and find it stinks!
Two UMass Boston students have written an historical perspective about how the radio station licensed to their university came to have a policy of excluding students from station operations and programming.
A side finding is WUMB's operating budget, when compared to sister UMass stations WMUA (Amherst), WUML (Lowell) and WUMD (Dartmouth), is astronomical.
Read the source article,
And a related commentary,
Update
On 10/24 about 10pm the new MassMedia article had been taken down. Luckily the section containing the budgetary information had been captured, read here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/towards-independent-college-community-radio-wumb/umass-vice-chancellor-justifies-wumbs-bloated-budget-and-student-exclusion-on-th/748669558492407
This is the second time since September a MassMedia article on WUMB has been taken down.
If the numbers reported by MassMedia are correct it is disturbing that WUMB's budget is 20-50 times that of its sister UMass stations in Lowell, Dartmouth and Amherst.
It is also disturbing that an "independent" student newspaper takes down articles without a retraction statement.
Wonder who "got" to the staffers and/or editors? My advice to the reporters is the same Deep Throat gave to Woodward and Bernstein, to keep on the story and follow the money.
A side finding is WUMB's operating budget, when compared to sister UMass stations WMUA (Amherst), WUML (Lowell) and WUMD (Dartmouth), is astronomical.
Read the source article,
WUMB: UMass Boston's non-UMass Boston radio station
Posted on September 1, 2013
And a related commentary,
UMass Vice Chancellor Justifies WUMB's Bloated Budget and Student Exclusion on the Grounds of Prestige and Marketing
Update
On 10/24 about 10pm the new MassMedia article had been taken down. Luckily the section containing the budgetary information had been captured, read here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/towards-independent-college-community-radio-wumb/umass-vice-chancellor-justifies-wumbs-bloated-budget-and-student-exclusion-on-th/748669558492407
This is the second time since September a MassMedia article on WUMB has been taken down.
If the numbers reported by MassMedia are correct it is disturbing that WUMB's budget is 20-50 times that of its sister UMass stations in Lowell, Dartmouth and Amherst.
It is also disturbing that an "independent" student newspaper takes down articles without a retraction statement.
Wonder who "got" to the staffers and/or editors? My advice to the reporters is the same Deep Throat gave to Woodward and Bernstein, to keep on the story and follow the money.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Independent College Radio WUML at the Lowell Folk Festival
This is what independent college radio is all about, being a part of and serving the community! WUML (UMass Lowell) set up a remote broadcast facility in Boardinghouse Park at the recent Lowell Folk Festival, from which it broadcast live each and every act who performed on the main stage, and interviewed the artists after their sets. Bravo WUML!
Read WUML's history here.
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.
Source: wiki
Community and independent college are types of radio service that offer a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial and public. Community and independent college stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular to a local/specific audience but which may often be overlooked by commercial/mass-media and so-called "public" broadcasters.
If you are curios and wish to learn more, check out these following resources:
Community and Independent College Radio
an open group run by and for community and independent college radio producer/hosts and supporters. Our mission is to promote independent, non-commercial radio, share with our peers and the public news of our own and our stations' programming and network with one another. Sister page: https://www.facebook.com/CommunityandIndependentCollegeRadio
Community and independent college radio stations
A growing list of stations located in the USA.
Photo courtesy of the Lowell Folk Festival, who posted on their Facebook page....
Thanks to all the support from the gang from #WUML, live from Boarding House Park! #LowellFolk FestivalLiked · Sunday
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| City of license | |
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| Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Broadcast area | Massachusetts college |
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| Frequency | 91.5 MHz |
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| Format | College Radio |
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| ERP | 1,400 watts |
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| HAAT | 63 meters |
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| Class | A |
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| Facility ID | 69410 |
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| Transmitter coordinates | 42°39′7.73″N 71°19′13.44″W |
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| Callsign meaning | University of Masssachusetts Lowell |
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| Former callsigns | WLTI (1967-1975) WJUL (1975-2003) |
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| Owner | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
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| Webcast | Listen Live |
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| Website | wuml.org |
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Read WUML's history here.
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.
Source: wiki
Community and independent college are types of radio service that offer a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial and public. Community and independent college stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular to a local/specific audience but which may often be overlooked by commercial/mass-media and so-called "public" broadcasters.
If you are curios and wish to learn more, check out these following resources:
Community and Independent College Radio
an open group run by and for community and independent college radio producer/hosts and supporters. Our mission is to promote independent, non-commercial radio, share with our peers and the public news of our own and our stations' programming and network with one another. Sister page: https://www.facebook.com/CommunityandIndependentCollegeRadio
Not-for-profit
association dedicated to the democratization of the airwaves through
the proliferation of non-commercial, community based, micropower
stations.Community and independent college radio stations
A growing list of stations located in the USA.
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