RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

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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