Sounds interesting. Just listening to Booya's stream and I am really digging it. AnGer, the page was empty?
I'd like to know how campus radios work. I mean, I have a faint idea, but yeah.
It all comes down to the energy every one wants to put into it. Obviously thers no real money coming in (with a few exceptions). I started a year ago and im head of the music departmenet now, where we meet every week. Everyone brings new/old music with him and we listen through it and decide if we want to add it to our pool. The music departement than choses the music for the shows to play with the exceptions of the shows people in the music departement host themself.
We have a news department that meets three times a week to collect and record local uni related news (you can hear those two times during each show).
There is an online department that is in charge of our homepage and if the staff is big enough (currently it is small as hell) we have also a lot of bits about anything of interest.
Anything else is a bonus that can become something of a bigger hobby. The guy who is currently in charge of Campusradio (it is obviously pretty changeable because a lot of staff changes from semester to semester due to more stress at the uni or finishing up their studies etc.) organized a club evening for us at a small venue with no pay but for us it was one of the most things we could do. We started spinning under the campusradio a year ago and it turned now into something bigger:
I was searching for interesting guests and found two girls from berlin that specialize on scandinavian music (nordic by nature). I invited them on the day they were spinning at an awesome local club and we did a collab-show together. During the show i met the guy who runs the club, talked to him a bit and basically explained him what i just wrote here. The girls talked to him afterwards ( i think ) and he offered us to try out a new clubnight in his club. We put in a lot of energy the last couple of weeks, designed posters (
http://foxbird.de/kram/indieWelleEntwurf.jpg ) and took them all over campus. The great thing is the support the club did us. They basically printed thousands of flyer and posters for us, which is a pretty awesome thing of them to do. The party was two days ago and it was a big success. This is basically one of my biggest dreams come true and it shows me what awesome stuff can happen if one puts some energy into a project.
We also host other projects like something called Powerpoint-Karaoke, where we present, host and organize the whole deal. Other projects include now stuff like being in charge of the music and presenting Poetry Slams and slowly it even goes into coming up projects by the city or big cultural organisation that want to hire us as presenters and music guys.
Only sad thing is that everything can be totally different in one years time because, and i guess this applies to all campusradios, the staff always changes.
