Student Radio Stations in New Zealand: Bfm, Radio One, the Most FM, Rdu-FM, Bnet, Radio Active, the Vbc

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Chapters: Bfm, Radio One, the Most Fm, Rdu-Fm, Bnet, Radio Active, the Vbc. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: bFM is a radio station which operates in Auckland, New Zealand on Schedule 7 (educational purposes) semi-commercial licence. The station is based in the Student Union Building at the University of Auckland, and is owned by a trust on behalf of the Auckland University Students Association, AUSA. The station operates as part of a loose grouping of student radio stations across New Zealand known as the B.net, and broadcasts its signal to greater Auckland at 95.0 on the FM dial. It is the promoter of the b. Net New Zealand Music Awards (along with the other b. Net stations) and the popular Summer Series live events in nearby Albert Park. Founded in 1969, bFM was a pirate student radio station, broadcast from a boat - which ran aground in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour - and played illegally on speakers around the University. The iconic b originally stood for "bosom" in honour of a capping week graduation stunt. The station was originally run as an AUSA club but by the mid eighties had seven staff (paid a nominal wage) and 100+ volunteers. All staff were voted into their position by collective vote - the collective being the staff and volunteers of the station at the time, with the appointments ratified by the AUSA. The AUSA formed Campus Radio BFM Limited in 1989, at which point the station was expected to run at break-even, having run up significant losses in previous years. That was not popular with many staff and volunteers, some of whom resigned when new station manager Simon Laan took over and started implementing changes recommended in a report titled "Saving BFM" by Kerr Inkson and Kelly Grove Hill (from the Auckland University School o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=263969

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First published May 31, 2010

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