Using New Media to Support 'Old'

Program Title: WFMU: Dragging Radio Into The Present
Description: For over fifty years, New Jersey’s WFMU has been one of the world’s most reknowned non-commercial radio stations. Although it’s transmitter covers only a portion of the New York City area, WFMU is known within media circles for being a trailblazer in social media and alternative licensing and copyright issues. But as Station Manager Ken Freedman explains, the transition from being an FM radio station to an online entity hasn’t always been so easy. Freedman will discuss how one traditional media outlet made the leap and how the transition continues more than twelve years after it began.

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Ken Freedman (born February 18, 1959) is the ongoing General Manager of WFMU, a freeform radio station. He also co-hosts the conceptual comedy program Seven Second Delay. A core strategy for the station was to embrace the World Wide Web, launching its website in 1993, streaming its broadcasts full-time in 1997, and archiving most broadcasts from 2000. Under Freedman's management, annual donations to the station (which is funded exclusively by listener support) grew from $50,000 in 1983, to $750,000 in 1999, to over $1,000,000 in 2008. (source: wikipedia)

Credits: Recorded by CJSF

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