RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue, Jan 01, 1988, page 191

doing this to try to Keep people from working with us! On the contrary, we need volunteers in every part of our station work , or we can't meet our goals , and we may even not be able to stay on the air . The reason we ask that you read and discuss the Conceptual Hanual with us is so that .both you and the station have a clear idea of what we expect from one another . It's the same thing as the WHCR Technical Manual, which you will be askeđ to look at and discuss with a staff member if you want to work with апу of the station's eguipment, such аз the studio turntables or the portable tape recorders . Those machines are the tools of the rađio trade; but the concepts we explain here are our tools as well. We want everyone who works for WHCR to be abte to use the tools , both the machines and the concepts , as well as they can . And our goal staff members is to help people to learn all those tools even better than when they come in. > For More On ... The Art of Radio See Section Three . Probably the most important concept we try to put into practice at WHCR is that we are a neighborhood radio station . That makes us different from all, or nearly all, the other radio stations in New York City . They define their audiences by the demographic considerations . That is , by age , ethnicity , sex , socioeconomic status , and so on - no matter where in the metropolitan area those people live . We define our audience by geographic considerations . It isn't complicated idea ; we are here to serve as the radio station of a specif ic neighborhoođ . That neighborhood surrounds the City College campus and is known as Harlem . We are even more specific in our geography than that, because , as you know , there is some discussion (as there has been for a century , really) about what Harlem's boundaries are . So our neighborhood is Central Harlem. There are a couple of different ways to define that neighborhood , too , but here is what we mean: The southern boundary is 1 10th Street; The northern boundary is 155 th Street; The western boundary is Amsterdam Avenue; The eastern boundary is the Harlem River and Fifth Avenue . That woulđ be about 5 sguare miles of Manhattan within

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