RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

regulations and station policies which the volunteer agrees to follow. At the end of the Program Period , the station evaluates the volunteer's work in terms of this contract, so that the next Period's contract can better meet everyone's needs . • Апуопе who wants CCNY credit for working at the station , either in an internship or some other arrangement, must talk to the faculty members of the Department of Communications , Film and Video who are assigned to work with the station for that Semester. / People who wou!đ like to volunteer in capacities other than programming - working in the front office or on the Program Guide , for example - are also welcome , and should stop by the station to discuss the guiđelines for those jobs . Section Seven : BROADCASTIN6 PROFESSIONALISM As we indicated in the last section , WHCR is ап open , participatory , accessible rađio station. One of our most difficult issues is how we can. at the same time be a professional radio station . The existing model of professionalisrn is not the best because , as we mentioned on other aspects of station programming and management, it is based on the commercial, money-making model of broadcasting in the United States . To come up with the kind of professional approach to radio which is more appropriate to WHCR , we have borrowed ideas from several different sources , First is what's called Ethnic Radio. For our purposes , the kind of ethnic radio we are interested m is Black Radio . This is because our target area is over 90Х Afro-American . Some of the Black rađio stations in New York do a good job of meeting the needs of the Black community . WHB-AM covers a great deal of news and public affairs of interest to our listeners, and probably to many other New Yorkers. Some of our audience like WWRL -AM for gospel. or WBLS -FM for Urban Contemporary , or WKSS-FM for its format , While we admire these stations and have listened to their programming to get ideas f ог our own, there are two differences between them and us that cannot be changed ; first, all the Biack -oriented stations аге commercial, and, second , none of them are about the neighborhood we choose to program for . Since the City College is home for WHCR , we have also tned to look at College Radio, particularly other low-power stations Пке ours, to get ideas about a professional approach. We have

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