WG/radiomeeting1 9

Draft minutes from the Radio meeting 1/9/12

Attendees Tracy Chris Matt Brandon Michael Sage Todd Sarah

AGENDA

PRODUCER

UPDATES

• Tracy
• Chris

  - NH was cool
  - 200 people in rally outside debate

• Matt

  - tech training last Sunday,
  - Katherine took notes for documentation
  - Brandon moving airtime from personal server to mayfirst.org

• Brandon

  - running on fumes

• Michael

  - production, training for programming
  - exercise and test for broadcast Tuesday at 5:00 at E5
  - outreach is more difficult than expected
  - will reach out to media on Wednesday
  - T service cuts : what can radio do to highlight the issue and get message out?

• Sage

  - Wants to do show related to economics
  - Tracey will be producer

• Todd

  - first meeting, no updates

• Sarah

  - learned BUTT
  - beginning producer training
  - few people at producer workshop
  - Stacey : outreach to community radio
  - Kevin : radio show on labor, very organized

SHOW STATUS

• Tracy

  - news on (can't read my writing "Wortdy"?)
  - GBot & B the Revolutionary on Monday

• Chris

  - History with Todd
  - Kevin would like weekend slot for labor show

• Matt

  - Robin show Friday AM
  - Out of town Wed, Thu
  - Outreach to Monica Poole
  - Taking over Linda's show?

• Brandon

  - will do tech parts of production

• Michael

  - news exercise tomorrow (Tues 1/10, 5:00 at E5)
  - hoping for schedule [not enough programming for strict schedule, only provisional]
  +- reconcile mailing list with programing ideas on basecamp ACTION: Chris, Matt, Sarah, Brandon

• Sage
• Todd

  - Made contact with Ashely Sanders for interview re: article at WarisACrime.org about Populist movement of early 1900s.
  - Other show ideas listed on basecamp
  - Will coordinate with Chris for production
  - would like feature on OPitt's eviction of Mellon Bank, will coordinate with news
  - Needs ob.org e-mail address for future contacts

• Sarah

  - Theology in action (Live) Wed @ 7:00
  - Kevin : labor show (Live)
  - Ren : women & houseless "occupy conversations" (Live)
  - Brenden : news behind the news (recorded)
  - Zoe : no one is quite sure (Live, mixed)
  - Katherine : environment (Live)
  - Beth : Wed @ 8:00 or Friday (TBD) : live music peformance
  +- how to mic, where to do, can't really at E5? If Wed, at Sarah's house, else at E5

SCHEDULE PROCEDURE

• how to get from program idea to scheduled program. Discussion resulted in:

  1) Have developed show host go to meeting to scheduling block
  2) Producer approves
  3) Producer tells timeslot to Program Schedule Dept
  4) PDS slotting
  5) PDS confirms timeslot to producer & communications

Pre-recorded show will follow same procedure with required 96-hour time lag from 2 through 5.

Remaining agenda was postponed.

GENERAL

  UPDATES
  INREACH-MEDIA
  PRERECORDED MEDIA
  NEXT TECH SCHEDULING
  WEB TEMPLATE
  EQUIPMENT