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Popular Broadcasting Pros to Take Over the Airwaves
at WCWP for Homecoming Weekend
Former student DJs will celebrate homecoming by hosting
programs on WCWP
When listeners tune in to C.W. Post Campus radio station WCWP
88.1 FM on October 28 and 29, 2000 they may think they've tuned
into a different station. That's because broadcasting pros who
work at major radio and TV stations across the country -- and
also happen to be graduates of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island
University -- will be calling out tunes from the '60s, '70s and
'80s.
Approximately 21 alumni -- several of whom have made it in
professional broadcasting at such well-known broadcasting outlets
as CNBC, Voice of America and WFAN -- will return to C.W. Post
for Homecoming Weekend and to the radio station where they trained
for their careers. For 41 consecutive hours, from 12:01 a.m.
Saturday, October 28, to 5 p.m., Sunday, October 29, C.W. Post
radio station alumni will broadcast the same type of music they
played as students.
Graduates Jeff Kroll and Neil Marks will join the current
student team in announcing the football game against Southern
Connecticut.
"We used to do this every year, from about 1977 to 1989,"
says Ted David, a 1972 C.W. Post graduate. "With people's
busy lives, however, the annual reunion sort of fell by the wayside.
When Bill Epperhart, a former WCWP engineer and broadcasting
professor, died in March at the age of 51, we knew we had to
do it again. So, this weekend is dedicated to his memory."
The festivities will continue throughout Homecoming Weekend,
with a roundtable discussion by the alumni capping off the festivities
from 4 to 5 p.m. on October 29. The weekend festivities, including
the 1 p.m. football game, will be heard on both the web at www.liu.edu/wcwp
and the FM band. Station jingles, donated by JAM Creative Productions,
will be aired for the first time.
Station alumni are regular visitors to the station, and most
of them have worked in the industry at some point in their careers.
David, for example, was part of the launch team that put CNBC
on the air in 1989. He is now the anchor of CNBC's MarketWatch
and The Edge. Other participants have also succeeded in radio.
Other graduates have worked at WGBB-Freeport, WALK, WLIR, WPIX,
WABC and WFAN.
"The alumni can be a very rich source for the current
student body," says David. "Students who are currently
in the broadcasting program should have an opportunity to meet
with current broadcasters. We are a close-knit group, and we'd
like to help the kids coming up in the business."
"This event gives us an opportunity to show current students
how far they can go with a C.W. Post education," says current
Station Manager Judith Cramer. "With the professional equipment
we have here, every student can receive the hands-on training
they will need out in the so-called real world. But with the
training we provide, we like to think this is the real world."
WebRadio WCWP and WCWP FM are located in the Benjamin and
Elizabeth Abrams Communication Center on the C.W. Post Campus.
WCWP 88.1 FM -- along with sister station, WPBX 88.3 FM (located
at the Southampton College campus) -- is part of the Long Island
University Public Radio Network. WCWP 88.1 FM broadcasts jazz
and National Public Radio news and information as well as student-hosted
alternative, metal, urban and ethnic/specialty music. The WEB
station -- which can be heard at www.liu.edu/wcwp and on campus
cable channel 63 -- is a fully digital station, which serves
as a training facility for students in C.W. Post's Media Arts
program. Student programming includes alternative, classic rock,
specialty, metal and urban music, as well as talk and interview
shows, news and sports updates. WCWP 88.1 FM serves a potential
listenership of 324,000 people in parts of eastern Nassau County,
Queens, Westchester Country, and Connecticut while WCWP web station
can be heard around the world.
For more information about WCWP or the C.W. Post broadcasting
program,
contact Dr. Judith Cramer at (516) 299-2683 or jcramer@liu.edu.
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