College Radio Day 10/11/11

COLLEGE RADIO DAY’
330 stations uniting Tuesday to raise awareness

College radio became commonplace in the 1960s when the Federal Communications Commission began issuing class D licenses. More than a fourteen hundred stations can be found on the dial plus hundreds more Internet-only stations. Cutbacks in campus budgets, however, have prompted many colleges and universities to ax their radio stations.

To unite and come together, 330 stations are celebrating the first-ever College Radio Day this Tuesday, October 11th. The aim of College Radio Day is to harness the combined listenership of hundreds of thousands of college radio listeners throughout North America and to celebrate the important contribution of college radio to America's airwaves by uniting for this one day. Organizers of College Radio Day believe college radio is one of the last remaining bastions of creative radio programming. College radio is the only free live medium brave enough to play unsigned, local, and independent artists on a regular basis.

College Radio Day is not owned by any other organization or corporation and is entirely run by volunteer staff members from the many college radio stations throughout North America. The day is organized by people whose passion for college radio fuels this event.

This seems kind of last minute but commendable, are any other US radio folks on this board participating?

You know R.E.M. broke up, right?

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