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INTERESTED IN BECOMING A MEMBER OF KUR?
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As long as you are an active student,
faculty, or staff of Kutztown University, you are eligible to
become a member of KUR. No prior radio experience is necessary.
In fact, most of our new members have never seen a radio studio
before. However, if you wish to become an active member and work
your way on-air or behind-the-scenes, you must do the following
things:
1) Join our
Yahoo Listserv and read any and all new or recent messages
posted. You are responsible for any station news or updates sent
via the Listserv.
2) Attend all of our weekly mandatory
general member meetings. During the Fall 2010 semester, meetings
are held every Tuesday, beginning August 31, at 11 a.m. in
LC-113-B (The only exception to the "every Tuesday" schedule is
the week of September 6, where the meeting will be held on
Thursday, September 9 at 11 a.m., same location. The meetings
return to "every Tuesday" the following week).
3) Attend ALL mandatory
training sessions:
* Session 1
(Theory): Choose between either Monday, September 20 from 6 to 8
p.m. or Tuesday, September 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. in LC-113-B.
* Session 2
(Indecency): One choice only ... Thursday, September 23 from 6
to 8 p.m. in LC-113-B.
* Session 3
(Equipment): Choose between either Monday, September 27 or
Wednesday, September 29 ^^ from 6 to 8 p.m. in MSU 188.
* Session 4
(Sensitivity): One choice only ... Thursday, September 30 from 6
to 8 p.m. in MSU 250.
SPECIAL NOTE: If you miss
meetings or miss any training sessions, you cannot be considered
an active member of KUR.
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LIVE STUDENT SHOWS BEGIN AGAIN ON SEPT. 13!
You've waited all summer for it, and now it's almost here!
Live student specialty shows begin again on Monday, September
13th! Cafe KUR Jazz fans need not worry! Your favorite jazz will
continue during the daytime, but beginning September 13th, late
afternoons and evenings will feature the widest, most diverse,
and multicultural mix of specialty shows on the radio dial. Stay
tuned in the coming days for the official schedule to be posted!
Happy Autumn from the Radio Voice of Kutztown University, KUR!
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GOLDEN BEARS FOOTBALL ON KUR!
This year, ALL the Golden Bears football games will be
broadcast live here on KUR! There's no longer a need to tune
into radio stations from other cities or listen through awkward
on-line websites with long, confusing URL's. Instead, you can
hear all the Saturday games right here on KUR! For the schedule
of when your Golden Bears play this Fall,
click here and then under the "Filter by Sport" drop-down
menu, choose "Football," then click on "Search." KUR's live
broadcast of each game will usually begin about 5 to 15 minutes
before the scheduled kick-off time.
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"TALK WEDNESDAYS" PREVIEW FOR WEEK OF
8/30
Wednesdays are "Talk Wednesdays" here on KUR. After a
great morning and early afternoon of Cafe KUR Jazz, we kick off
the talk programming at 2:45 p.m. with our popular "Diversity
Rest Stop" interview, interviewing a diverse newsmaker,
musician, etc.
The afternoon of talk programming continues at 3 p.m. with "Fifty
One Percent," a radio magazine talk show designed
specifically for women, followed at 3:30 p.m. by "This
Way Out," the international gay/lesbian magazine.
Diversity
and multiculturalism is what we do here at KUR, and just because
it's summer doesn't mean it's any different! Thanks for
listening to the Radio Voice of Kutztown University, KUR!
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KUR AWARDED CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION
On Wednesday, March 24, State Senator Michael O'Pake surprised
Karissa Sevensky and Sarah Pellegrini's show with a surprise
visit to our radio station to present us with a beautiful
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania "Certificate of Recognition,"
honoring "five years of faithful and dedicated service to the
Kutztown University students and the Kutztown community."
KUR very warmly thanks Seantor O'Pake for such a wonderful
recognition. You can download an audio podcast of that special
moment by
clicking here. Pictures can be downloaded by
clicking here, and also
clicking here.
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KUR IS YOUR NEWS LEADER IN NORTH-EASTERN
BERKS!
How many of you out there are on Twitter and regularly follow
people?
If you already are a Twitter user, make sure you're following us
at
http://twitter.com/kuradio
If you're not already a Twitter user, make sure to join (if for
no other reason than to follow us) and then follow us at
http://twitter.com/kuradio
Why? Per popular request, and in our ongoing effort to be
North-Eastern Berks County's news leader in addition to
entertainment, KUR is now sending out news and traffic bulletins
over Twitter, along with our regular station updates. We will
NOT be sending those news and traffic bulletins over Facebook,
based on the way Facebook fan pages make groups send out group
e-mails. We WILL be keeping our Facebook fan page, though, for
other fun purposes (scroll farther down for the link).
So do it now and don't delay! The city papers and radio stations
do their best to cover news in our area and we respect that, but
some of those smaller stories like icy local roads sometimes get
missed. KUR News on Twitter will do our best to fill that niche!
And when we can't be in the news room to get it on-air as fast
as we'd like, that's where
http://twitter.com/kuradio comes in.
Join today!
http://twitter.com/kuradio
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KUR FEATURED ON HOBBYBROADCASTER.NET
We're very proud to be featured as one of the feature stations
at HobbyBroadcaster.net, one of the web's premier sources for
information on micro-broadcasting legal part-15 stations such as
ours. A big thank you to station members and you the listeners
for making KUR the huge success it is today! You can
read the article here.
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KUR IS ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER!
By popular request, your favorite radio station, KUR, is on
Facebook &
Twitter!
Click on the aforementioned links and follow our updates
about upcoming special programming, special events, and much,
much more!
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KUR AVAILABLE ON I-PHONES & REGULAR PHONES
Listen to KUR in full stereo on your I-Phone! (If you don't have
an I-Phone and just own a regular cell or landline phone, keep
reading). Go to the app
store on your I-Phone and search for 'Radiolicious'. The app is
free and once you download it you can open the app and search
for 'kutztown' and KUR will appear. Click to listen.
If you're of the less technologically-savvy crowd, KUR is proud to announce our
new partnership with
AudioNow,
which allows us to broadcast our radio station to your phone
free of charge!* Any phone will work! Cell. Landline. No special
data plan necessary. No special smart phone necessary. If your
phone can call (610)-465-7860, which is a standard Lehigh
Valley, Pennsylvania phone number, you're all set! It's so
simple, it's unbelievable. Gone are the days when you lose KUR's
signal in your car or being unable to listen at home because you
don't have a computer. Just dial (610)-465-7860, turn on the
speakerphone, and voila, KUR on your phone! In the unlikely case
you have any problems with this very simple service, feel free
to e-mail or call the radio station through the contact link
above.
* This service is free of charge and you
are not even required to become a member to listen. Just simply
dial (610)-465-7860, and you're listening to KUR on your plain
old $10 cell phone! The only charges that apply are whatever it
would cost you to call a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
(Allentown/Bethlehem area) phone number, which for many of us
isn't anything since most of us get free airtime minutes or free
nights and weekends.
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WEBSITE FEATURES!
Check out some of our website features
that you may not use on a regular basis!
Click on the
Top 10 above for a weekly look back at the previous week's
Top 10 "Cafe KUR Jazz" tunes played here on KUR!
Under the
Photos portal, check frequently for updated,
behind-the-scenes photos from your friends here at KUR! Think of
it as your little window into our lives here at North-Eastern
Berks County's #1 Radio Station!
Then, under the
Podcasts portal, KUR provides you free digital copies of
some of our interviews heard weekly on our much talked about
"Diversity Rest Stop" Radio Program. It's the show that airs
Wednesdays at 1:45 p.m. and has people talking on
the streets, and now it's available to you whenever you want it,
especially if you can't listen at 1:45 p.m. on Wednesdays!
KUR truly is the "Radio Voice of Kutztown
University," enhancing your listening experience through the
wonders of computerized technology!
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THANKS FOR YOUR
COMMENTS!
Keep your comments about KUR coming!
Whether positive or negative, we want to hear them! That's why we are "The Radio Voice of Kutztown University," KUR.
If ever you have any comments about KUR, simply drop us an
e-mail at kur@kutztown.edu
or leave a message at (610)-683-4059. Here's just a small sample
of the hundreds of e-mails we receive every day:
"I think you are doing a great job and
want to encourage you to keep up the good work." -- Ernie
"Hands down, KUR is the best radio
station on-the-air!!!" -- Colleen
"I'm listening. I like you." -- Kate
"KUR is a nice way for me to keep in
touch with what is happening at the University." -- Trevor
"I just wanted to thank you for the
great music you play on Cafe KUR (Jazz). You guys are providing a great
service to the area." -- Art Lover
"Please keep playing the Cafe KUR
(Jazz)
music. I love it." -- Paul
"I certainly (listen). Thanks. Keep up
the great work." -- John
"Thanks for the amazing (news)
coverage. You guys are doing more than the other stations. Way
to go." -- Darlene
"The (jazz) format is
the best." -- Dot
"A sparkling jewel is KUR in the
University landscape." -- Anonymous
"I enjoy the variety of music,
especially the Roots, Rock, Reggae (program). Keep up the good
work!" -- Michelle
"You are doing a great job with the
radio station!" -- Kevin
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MISSION OF KUR
The
purpose of KUR is to
provide a means of student training and experience in radio
broadcasting, to provide a means of entertainment and
information for the student body and community, to serve the
public interest, and to be an instrument of expression for
student, faculty, and community opinion, in accordance with the
rules of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and KU
policy.
Any
views or opinions expressed on KUR are not necessarily those of
Kutztown University, Kutztown University Student Services
Incorporated (KUSSI), the Kutztown University Student Government
Board (SGB), KUR staff and management, or other affiliated
organizations.
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CONTEST RULES
Kutztown University Radio occasionally runs an
over-the-air contest soliciting listeners to call in and win a
prize or qualify for a prize. Some basic rules to remember:
1) Unless otherwise stated, contests are open to anyone other than people directly
affiliated with KUR, meaning KUR members are not eligible to
participate and win. Per approval from KU's KUSSI department,
the contests are open to anyone else including University
students, faculty, staff, and of course any random listeners in
the local, national, or international community. An exception to
this would be contests specifically for KU students only,
whereupon such would clearly be stated in conjunction with the
giveaway.
2) Please only one winner per family.
3) You are not allowed to win any KUR contest more than once
every 30 days.
4) Prizes are to be picked up at KUR's offices during normal
business hours which can be acquired by arrangement with a KUR
staff member. Under special circumstances, KUR may agree to mail
the prize, but this is not guaranteed. You are normally
responsible for picking up your own prize.
5) KUR is not responsible for any losses or damages that occur
from the use of any prize you win from the radio station.
6) KUR never
conducts any contests where we would call you. Any such contest call you may
receive should be considered a scam and reported to your local
authorities and/or KUR. The only exception to this would be if
you signed up to win a prize from one of our promotional tables,
whereupon we will only call you if you won one of the prizes.
7) Any questions about any of these rules should be directed to
KUR management at (610)-683-4059.
8) Good luck!
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