WVUR Management Blog

When I first started with WVUR, I was a DJ with my friend Nate. We had no previous experience and knew none of the terms. So for the good of mankind, I’ll explain the terms that are commonly used.

Ramp - Not what you walk up, it’s talking over the end or beginning of a song as it is playing. If you perfect this you can sound really professional.

Sweeper - This is a 3-10 second audio clip that makes the transition between songs a little smoother. Often times this includes station information.

Voice Track - Recording your show ahead of time with your voice and music pre-loaded. This is commonly done for late night shifts.

Well, I hope this little article brought some insight into the world that is radio.

Have a nice weekend! The weather is amazing!

-Jeff Lange

WVUR Programming Director

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Yes, this blog will have sports in it. I can’t help it. After all, I am covering the women’s soccer team right now.

In addition to being the WVUR webmaster, I’m a member of the WVUR Sports staff, broadcasting numerous Crusader sports contests and analyzing them on Your Crusader Sports Source (6-7:00 P.M. every Wednesday). Right now, Peter Berg and I are in Milwaukee to call the women’s soccer team’s action at the Horizon League Championships, and we are having a great time so far…

On the way to Milwaukee, we watched Miracle, a fantastic sports movie about the U.S. Hockey Team’s victory over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. We are also eating great food, passing Miller Park and the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower (world’s largest four-faced clock) on the way to the field, and we’re now in the championship game. Valpo played a great game against Wright State in the semis, and they will face Milwaukee for the tournament title on Sunday. Because the Wright State match was the WVUR Game of the Week, the Milwaukee match will become WVUR Game of the Week #2! Broadcast starts at 12:40 P.M. on 95.1-FM, WVUR. It should be a great game to follow, but that’s enough of me for tonight. I’ll talk some more about this at another time.

Happy birthday, Sesame Street!

Chris Kleinhans-Schulz, Webmaster

Chris Kleinhans-Schulz Sports, Webmastering Crusaders, Webmaster

This is the link to the blog schedule for WVUR managers. The plan is to have 2 blog entries “each week,” which does contain some overlap when months begin and end. Each manager should have one post per month unless otherwise noted. As General Manager, Cameron can post an entry whenever his little heart pleases.

Every week contains the names of 2 departments and a date. This indicates who needs to blog and what date indicates the start of your “blogging week.” I will also send email notifications to managers to remind you of your posting dates in case you forget or are confused.

These are the “rules” for the special blogging weeks. The last 2 weeks in December have “XMAS” listed. During this time, I’d like to have everyone write a “Christmas post” in addition to your regular assigned monthly post. In spring break, the word “optional” is listed. Naturally, anyone who is scheduled to blog during those weeks does not have to do so, but anyone who wants to post something about their spring break is more than welcome to. Finally, May has “Seniors, TBA” scheduled. Everyone should write a final post about your year whenever you choose to do so. For seniors and any other non-returning managers, this will be more like a “Goodbye” post of some type.

That’s all I have for everyone today. I’ll be back soon for my November post. As always, ask me any questions you have.

Happy birthday, Lutherans! (It’s not just Halloween today)

Chris Kleinhans-Schulz, Webmaster

Chris Kleinhans-Schulz Webmastering Blogging, Webmaster

Hi all,

First off, thanks for checking the blog. I hope everyone is enjoying their time at WVUR and having a wonderful first semester. I look forward to hearing all the DJs, News and Sports staffers put the finishing touches on a great semester and looking to start a new one.

Well, I’m Mike Targonski, the Events Director at WVUR; I am also a member of sports staff. As the Events Director, I had a pretty important job at the beginning of the year and that was to put on SourceStock. Let me tell you, I never thought in a million years I’d be throwing a concert. I began working with Cameron, our General Manager, and Michelle Niehaus, the past Events Director, in April for the show. I spent a lot of time in Valpo this summer, working as an Orientation Assistant as well as making trips to meet with Cameron and some other people for the show. When we got back to school, boy, was it hectic.

The week of SourceStock, I spent every minute that I wasn’t sleeping nor in class at the station working on schedules, making sure we had everything ready for the bands, making sure we had everything ordered for the show, and also praying that everything was going to be ok.

The day of…it seemed like I was professional. I had no worries (for some odd reason) and didn’t think anything was going to go work…nothing did! The show was great, we had a huge crowd, and the members of the band were fantastic. And I slept forever the following day!

I wouldn’t say I still have a SourceStock hang over because I have done a lot for events and the station. I was able to finally announce some games for sports and have been planning other small events with other organizations. But things are a lot more calm in my department nowadays.

Anyway, I look forward to basketball season in terms of broadcasting. I love sports and can’t wait until we get the seasons underway…next Sunday! But that’s all for now. Stop by my office hours if you need anything!

Mike Targonski, Events Director

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2 months ago, everything was different. As a management staff, we were preparing for SourceStock 2009 and the school year hadn’t even started yet. Now, I’m just thankful that I finally get a break. Fall Break is a great time for me because I can take some time off, but I can also catch up with my radio and school work.

I really enjoy being here at Valpo, especially at WVUR. I’m the station’s webmaster, a DJ, and a member of sports staff. That, combined with classes, keeps me pretty busy, but it’s fun, too. Over the next few days, I’ll host a volleyball broadcast, call play-by-play for a men’s soccer broadcast, and I’m also preparing to put a new banner on the website’s home page. It’s a new venture called “WVUR Game of the Week” where we promote a special broadcast we’ll be airing over the week, like an important conference match or an instate rivalry game. Plus, the time away from classes gives me an opportunity to catch up on school work. That way, I can feel less overwhelmed by the time classes resume and I’ll have less work to do later. Let’s not forget, I’m going to spend a lot of time doing nothing. It’s well deserved considering how hard we’ve all had to work over the last two months.

Overall, I’m really looking forward to Fall Break. It’ll be a great opportunity for everyone to relax and recharge before returning to the daily grind of work and school. That’s it for Post #1. Hope you all enjoyed.

Happy birthday, Jim Rome!

Chris Kleinhans-Schulz, Webmaster

Chris Kleinhans-Schulz Webmastering Webmaster

It’s crazy to think that another school year is right around the corner in a couple of days and with this fresh start comes our preparations for one of the largest concert events on campus for the entire year.  On September 12th, AP Fall Ball co-headliner The Academy Is… will be hitting the VU campus with rising stars Sing It Loud and Indiana’s own Dreams of University.

It’s going to be a crazy awesome show and it’s FREE to VU students, professors, alumni, and staff.  Don’t go to VU?  No worries my friend, tickets are only $10 for this crazy sweet show.  Bring a friend or three, because this is arguably the best event to hit campus all year.  Tickets are available at the Harre Union Info Desk or online at this site.  If you need a map to the venue, click here or send me an e-mail to Cameron.Banga@valpo.edu

I wanted to give you guys some links in case you were interested in learning more about the bands.  Take a listen and get pumped for the show.

The Academy Is…

• MySpace.com Link
• iTunes Link
• Band Site
• My Recommended Track

Sing It Loud

• MySpace.com Link
• iTunes Link
• Band Site
• My Recommended Track

Dreams of University

• MySpace.com Link
• iTunes Link
• Band Site
• My Recommended Track

We’re super stoked for this show and we hope you’re excited as well.  If you have any questions about the show or if you’d like to be part of WVUR, send me an e-mail to Cameron.Banga@valpo.edu and I’ll help you out.

-Cameron Banga, general manager.

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During my office hours I did a little cleaning up and browsing through the cd stacks. A cd that caught my eye was Breakfast By the Dunes by Twittering Machine. I had to listen to this cd right away, for any band that was called Twittering Machine was worth at least one listen. Twittering Machine has a jazzy feel with whispery vocals and a sultry tone of tender Latin rhythms. That last sentence was from the sticker on the cover of the cd created by the record company.

Originally I thought that this band borrowed their name from the oh-so-popular micro-blogging service Twitter. I was wrong. This band released this debut album in 2003, while Twitter was publicly released in August of 2006. How interesting. Also, the first song on the cd is Birds. I can’t make this stuff up. It’s pretty crazy that this band had the name of a now insanely influential internet powerhouse three entire years before Twitter was even created.

I have to say, this could be my new relaxation cd. It’s pretty smooth.

Jeff Lange Webmastering music

Yesterday I started work on upgrading our website from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5.10. This would be like whistling (really easy) for me, except for the fact that our server is not directly writeable. We have to upload to a stage server which then syncs with the live server every even hour.

I got the new version of joomla installed and now the template just needs to be modified to look like the old one.

Training has started with next year’s webmaster, Chris Kleinhans-Schulz. He’s a quick learner and he can come up with some goofy dummy-text — a skill needed by any webmaster.

For now things are going well. Let’s hope the end of this year and next year goes well.

Jeff Lange Webmastering joomla, Webmaster

My job for the last few weeks has been refreshingly different. I have taken advantage of the studio computer being repaired to clean out the catalog of productions in PSI. I went through and re-timed and remastered over half the sweepers, and added around 10 new ones, so when the on air studio goes back on air, there is going to be a lot of new sounds for the station.

One thing that I am really looking forward to is the installation of the new Prod room computer. Jared, the station engineer, is in the process of putting in a new, totally awesome computer that I cannot wait to start playing with.

I’m also excited to work with the new management staff. punks.

I you have any question or comments just let me know!

Peace

Harry Cassin, Producion Director

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Organizations on campus are a way for college students to develop close bonds with other students with similar interest. WVUR is one of these organizations and often staff members spend so much time together, they begin to think of each other as family.

As some of you might have heard, a former manager and close friend of many involved with the station, was recently injured in a serious accident. Nick Kovatch was hospitalized for about a month with severe injuries. Thankfully, Nick has recovered and was released from the hospital to continue his recovery in the confines of his home. The station staff and friends of Nick are overwhelmed with joy for his recovery and would like to assist him with the expenses that have accumulated due to his hospitalization.

WVUR will be putting together a couple of events to help raise funds for Nick and his family. The first event will be a basketball tournament to take place at 2 pm on May 3rd in the Hilltop gymnasium at the Athletics Recreation Center. The tournament will be 3 on 3 and the cost will be $15 for a team. Teams can have as many as 4 players to allow for a substitution for each team. Teams can be any combination of players, just be aware that some all female teams may be matched up with an all male team as the tournament progresses. Brackets will be decided based on sign ups. Sign up sheets will be located on the station door and should be turned in by Wednesday, April 29. Every team is guaranteed two games and there will be other fun competitions throughout the day. Prizes will be provided for the winning teams and donations will be accepted throughout the day’s events.

Please keep in mind that all proceeds will go to Nick Kovatch and his family. Please join us for a day of fun for a great cause. We appreciate your participation.

If you have any questions please contact Michelle Niehaus at Michelle.Niehaus@Valpo.edu

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