WBRU 95.5, BSR 88.1, Brown University’s Department of American Civilization, and the John Nicholas Brown Center present
From Gaspipes to Websites: Radio at Brown 1936-2006
An exhibit celebrating 70 years of Brown college radio.
Free and open to the public.
Exhibit Hours
February 21-March 9, 2007
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
John Hay Library, Lownes Room
Opening Reception Sunday, February 25, 2-5 p.m.
Please join alumni and radio fans at the John Hay Library on Sunday, February 25, 2-5 p.m. for the public Opening Reception and the launch of a new audio documentary about Brown radio, sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Brown University Creative Arts Council, and the Rhode Island Commission for the Humanities. Pick up a free CD of the documentary at the exhibit, while supplies last!
For more information on the documentary, please visit http://bsrserv.bsrlive.com/alumni.
The Department of American Civilization and the John Nicholas Brown Center host
Is Radio Still Important?
A series of panel discussions on the past, present, and future of radio broadcasting
Brown Radio: The Importance of College Stations
Sunday, February 25, 7 p.m.
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Brown University
Panelists
Peter Tannenwald ‘64, Legal counsel to WBRU and former WBRU board member
Don Berns ‘69, Radio and club D.J. for alternative music
Dan Oppenheim ‘98, Founder of BSR, lawyer, DGA Security Systems
Rita Cidre ‘07, Former general manager of WBRU
Jason Sigal ‘07, General manager of BSR
Moderated by Susan Smulyan, Associate professor of American civilization and author of Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting
For information about other events in the “Is Radio Still Important?” series, please visit http://www.brown.edu/Research/JNBC/Lectures.htm.
My ass is currently planted to a chair in a classroom at Emerson College in Boston, MA. My class has just taken a short recess so that the various smokers in the room can go outside and replace some of the oxygen in their bloodstream with nicotine molecules. I'm still here because I quit smoking.
The class I'm taking is called "Marketing and Promotion for Radio and Audio" and we've just wrapped up a heated discussion regarding the importance of record labels and the ways in which they interact with Radio. I've concluded that the machine is broken, but still important. But, seriously, fuck the machine. That's all. Be safe.