Last day in March
Today - Ever have one of those days when you feel like it's all a marathon? Right now the station is in the process of hiring a new morning news producer so I'm in charge of picking them up and touring them around the area...
7:00a - Leave for Syracuse to pick up a candidate at the Syracuse airport hotel
8:00a - Grab breakfast with the prospective employee at Tim Hortons (where else would you start the day for someone who has never been to New York!)
8:45a - Give a driving tour of Syracuse
10:00a - Give a driving tour of Oswego
10:45a - Convene Search Committee and give interview
12:00p - Catch my breath
12:30p - Lunch with candidate and some staff at Canales
2:00p - Meeting with Vice President of Alumni and Development (a.k.a. my boss' boss)
2:45p - Walking tour of campus
3:30p - Actually do some regularly scheduled work!
5:00p - Drive Michele to a baby sitting job
6:00p - Back to campus to arrange stuff for tomorrow at WRVO
6:30p - Meeting with head labbie at the Radio Lab
7:00p - Radio Lab Meeting with Pizza
8:00p - E-board meeting at WNYO
9:00p - Home! Catch up on email, grade papers, plan classes, catch up on program information for NPR, schedule some tweets for WRVO and hopefully go to bed soon.
Do it all again tomorrow with another candidate...luckily I don't have the Radio Lab or WNYO meetings to end the day!
Fred!
New era in student broadcasting
There has been a lot of talk about the main bridge in town closing, but there is something else that has ended in the community. It's the broadcast of WNYO from the Hewitt Student Union. The station quietly signed off with little fanfare before spring break. They are now preparing to begin broadcast from the new campus center. As you will see in these pictures, there is a lot of work to go. Though, they do plan to hopefully broadcast with automation beginning in a few days. Here are a few pictures:
Office Area 
News Production Studio
Production Studio
The main control board 
Control Room Again
Control room again... 
A look toward the Control Room from the main hallway.
Thanks to Ed Smith, GM at WNYO for allowing me to take a few shots. I also was given a tour of WTOP, the campus television station, those pictures to come in a future post.
Fred!
WNYO Playlist
A rundown of music from my latest show. You can listen every Sunday evening from 6-8:
| 06:01 pm | 15 Step | Radiohead | In Rainbows | ATO Records | Indie Rotation |
| 06:05 pm | No Cars Go | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible | Merge Records | Indie |
| 06:12 pm | Terarium | King of Prussia | Save the Scene | Kindercore | Indie Rotation |
| 06:19 pm | It's The Beat! | Simian Mobile Disco | Attack Decay Sustain | Interscope | Indie |
| 06:24 pm | Black Hole Sun | Section Quartet, The | Fuzzbox | Decca | Indie |
| 06:26 pm | Doing it Right | Go Team! The | Proof of Youth | Sub Pop | Indie |
| 06:30 pm | Rainman/Call Me | Legal ID | |||
| 06:30 pm | Aunt Mary's Cafe | Underwriter | |||
| 06:31 pm | Mer Du Japon | Air | Pocket Symphony | Astralwerks | Indie Rotation |
| 06:36 pm | Knight of Cydondia | Muse | Black Holes & Revelations | Warner Bros | Indie |
| 06:41 pm | Harmonicas & Tambourines | Hot Hot Heat | Happiness Ltd. | Sire | Indie |
| 06:44 pm | I Need A Friend | Small Sins | Mood Swings | Astrelwerks | Indie Rotation |
| 06:49 pm | Tokyo | Athlete | Beyond, The | Parlophone | Indie Rotation |
| 06:52 pm | New Shoes | Paolo Nutini | These Streets | Atlantic | Indie |
| 06:55 pm | Failsafe | New Pornographers, The | Challengers | Matador | Indie |
| 06:56 pm | Once Around the Block | Badly Drawn Boy | Hour of the Bewilderbeast | XI Recordings | Archive |
| 07:01 pm | Rainman Dry | Legal ID | |||
| 07:01 pm | OFCU | Underwriter | |||
| 07:02 pm | Sing Again | Chris Walla | Field Manual | Barsuk | Indie Rotation |
| 07:05 pm | Moondog | Henrik Schwarz | Dj Kicks: Henrik Schwarz | K7 | Archive |
| 07:07 pm | Electric Feel | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | Columbia | Indie |
| 07:11 pm | I could have done this myself | Lightspeed Champion | Falling off the Lavender Bridge | Domino Records | Indie Rotation |
| 07:15 pm | In Between Days | Ben Folds | supersunnyspeedgraphic | Epic | Archive |
| 07:18 pm | Hatchet | Low | Drums And Guns | Sub Pop Records | Indie |
| 07:19 pm | Please, Please, Please | Shout Out Louds | Howl Howl Gaff Gaff | Capitol | Indie |
| 07:23 pm | A-Punk | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | XI Recordings | Indie Rotation |
| 07:26 pm | I Think I'm In Love | Beck | Information | Interscope | Indie |
| 07:29 pm | Ted Bradford/Crow Noise | Legal ID | |||
| 07:30 pm | The Great Raven Tavern | Underwriter | |||
| 07:30 pm | North American Scum | LCD Soundsystem | Sound of Silver | Capitol | Indie |
| 07:37 pm | This is the Way | Rivers Cuomo | Alone: The Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | Geffen Records | Indie Rotation |
| 07:42 pm | I'm not mad enough | Ladybug Transistor, The | Can't Wait Another Day | Merge Records | Indie |
| 07:45 pm | Newjack | Justice | Cross | Downtown/Ed Banger | Indie |
| 07:48 pm | The Underdog | Spoon | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | Merge Records | Indie |
| 07:53 pm | can't believe a single word | VHS Or Beta | Bring on the Comets | Astralwerks | Indie |
| 07:57 pm | Golden Skans | Klaxons, The | Myths of The Near Future | Geffen Records | Indie |
Fred!
Market Saturation
I have been at WRVO since 2000. In my current capacity I occasionally act as a backup host when others are out sick or on vacation. I have also DJed at the student station, WNYO, since about 1998. I can't think of a time where I was actually on-air on both stations simultaneously. Tonight it was possible to hear me on 88.9 and 89.9 at the same time thanks to magic of computer assisted radio automation. I'm sure no one noticed, the two stations cater to completely different audiences.
Fred!
Yet another semester…
It's a new semester and once again I will be a DJ on WNYO. WNYO is the student run music station on campus. I'll be hosting a 2-hour alternative rock program every Sunday evening 6p-8p throughout the semester. Listen to WNYO online: (hi-fi) (lo-fi)