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Old 09-29-2005, 05:40 PM   #30 (permalink)
keyshawn
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Hey,

Hope you don't mind me for bumping this topic, but I just got my own radio show at my college radio station
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I guess going to a small [1250 students] liberal arts school helps.

We're trying to resurrect the station, since the past couple years, it really wasn't maintained at all and went into near atrophy [since we're doing a webcast-only, because the college got their FCC license revoked a few years ago.... ]
From the other experiences, I feel really fortunate: no graveyard shift [sunday nights 8-9]; no playlists - play whatever each DJ wants; large vinyl collection. However, all of the equipment is pretty old and our collection isn't that current. In order to help with this, I'm trying to write letters to labels to send us advance copies, albums, promos, whatever other garb they want to give us. The program director is really carefree and gave me permission to send out requests, if I wanted to. Right now, Sub_Pop and EMI currently send us stuff occasionally, though I'd like to add quite a few more, especially some indie labels. How do I go about doing this ? I've visited a few label's sites and couldn't find too much information on who to contact. I figure I'd have to write some sort of letter - or can I just merely give them an index card with an address ?!?!?

Also, I humbly admit that I have no previous experience with this [other than being a bit of a music junkie], so I don't know what type of protocol there is, or where to find information [i.e. other websites, forums, mailing lists] where I can contact other college radio stations. I searched on google for a bit, couldn't find too much besides a dead forum....

Thanks for everyone's knowledge !
Catcha back on the flipside,
keyshawn
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