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WELCOME BACK – We’ve Got Your FREE Tickets!!!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by The Professor
Yes, it’s that time of year again. You have to leave the safety of your parents and come back to the world of college (oops, we mean University). We know it can be a dark and scary place so WLOY wants to help. Would a pile of FREE tickets to great shows at Ramshead Live! help? We thought so! We love you so much we’ve got a huge pile of FREE tickets for you. College should be fun, WLOY can help. How about going to any of these 14 shows for free? (more…)
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Additions to Loyola Dining!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by WLOY Staff
Over the summer many changes were made to the dining areas throughout the Evergreen campus. Newman Towers offers a second Il Piatto location to satiate your desire for delicious Italian cuisine, as well as the newly improved Newman Market. Opening Friday, September 3, the new Newman Market will be an upscale convenience store providing not only made-to-order foods but grocery items and cosmetics as well. From 12 gelato flavors prepared fresh daily to delicious crepes this market will be just what you are looking for. (more…)
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Find the Van Win Tickets!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by The Professor
Here’s a new contest for you… WLOY just refreshed the graphics on our station van, making it even easier to find! Want to win free tickets to shows? All you have to do is find us at an event and be the first one to spot the van. Tell us “I saw the van and I want my tickets”. If you’re the first one at our event, you win the tickets! We’ve got a ton of free tickets and we’re doing a dozen events in the next 10 days, so GOOD LUCK!
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DJ’s Wanted
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by WLOY Staff
Looking for a way to get involved in something awesome at Loyola? Interested in music? Always wanted to hear your voice on the airwaves? Well, here’s your chance! WLOY is looking for DJ’s to host their own shows in the fall! If you’re interested in becoming a part of the WLOY team, come to our open houses on September 7th – 9th at 7 – 9pm in Bellarmine Hall (by the new Iggy’s Market). Can’t make it to one of the open houses? You can also e-mail wfpotter@loyola.edu with a short bio telling us how great you are, the type of music your show will highlight and a sample playlist for your show.
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Listen / Watch WLOY Now on CH 35
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by WLOY Staff
NOTE: This announcement only applies to Loyola students living on the Evergreen campus. This does NOT apply to people living in the Baltimore area.
If you haven’t noticed already, the TV channels in your dorm room have changed! There have been a bunch of great new additions made to the channel lineup over the summer, however you need a TV with a digital tuner to see all of them.
We have moved from Channel 50 to Channel 35. Some of you are wondering, why does a radio station have a TV channel? The answer is BECAUSE WE CAN! You can tune into WLOY on your TV and watch the pretty picture slideshow on your screen. You can also listen to us as the music bed to the new channel guide on Channel 3.
More information about the TV upgrades on campus can be found at Technology Services.
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Save Student Station KTRU
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 by The Professor
Yesterday the University of Houston approved a deal to buy the non-commercial, student-staffed 50,000 watt KTRU-FM from Rice University. The trouble is, no one mentioned it to KTRU! Rice University apparently decided to sell the station for between $9-10 million dollars to U of H without any public discussion. The deal will effectively kill independent radio in the Houston market, end 40 years of Rice student radio and add another NPR affiliate to the market. Rice has had major losses in it’s endowment in the past year, but the explanation given is that the money will fund new programs. Perhaps the most amazing thing is the statement from their PR office claiming that “the students aren’t losing anything” since they will move to the internet?! Ok, we at WLOY will happily trade our internet stream for your 50,000 watt FM signal ANY DAY. Please call 🙂
Want to find out more? Savektru.org is one of the many sites set up to support cancellation of the deal. KTRU was threatened with shutdown in 2000 and raised enough noise from the community and alumni to bring them back from the brink then.
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Vote for WLOY in Pepsi Grant Competition!
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 by The Professor
We found out this morning that we’re officially in the running for a $50,000 grant that will allow us to expand the What Happens Next program into at least 5 more schools!
We’ll be able to print materials, provide enhanced teacher training, and build 5 in-school studios for at least 5 Baltimore City Public Schools if we win! Only the top 10 vote totals win grants, so we need your help! You can go vote here and please tell everyone you’ve ever met about it!
This is an awesome opportunity for us to expand our program and make a real impact on the kids in Baltimore City Public Schools. Every vote counts and we only have until the end of August!!!
NOTE: YOU CAN VOTE EVERY DAY!
AND YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR US EVERY DAY!!
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Both Feet In: JR
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 by The Professor
JR (Originally aired Aug. 1, 2010)
After more than 20 years of living on he streets, JR speaks to us from his home. He gives this advice to you: “Get all the education you can, soak it up…. do it for yourself, not for anybody else…” and talks about how he survived sleeping in the alleyways for so long. He also plays a few notes on his guitar, as music “soothes the soul.”
[audio:bfi_JR.mp3]Download
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Middle Grades Radio Boot Camp
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 by The Professor
It’s time for this year’s Middle Grades Partnership summer radio boot camp at WLOY! This year’s class is a bit smaller, at 13, but they’re already having a blast. Students come in for a 2 day session. Day 1 is a discussion of the process of radio programming and production, a chance to select and read news stories live on the air and planning for a feature story.
Over the course of the next week, the students work independently to develop their very own feature story on a topic of their choosing. For Day 2 the students sit down and review their written feature, convert it to a radio text and record it. We add in production elements from sound effects to music beds in order to enhance their work. Once complete, you’ll be able to hear their stories on the air on WLOY and right here on the website.
This is our 3rd year of the program and it’s always a ton of fun to give rising 9th graders a chance to experience something new and special Stay tuned for their finished works and tune in on the 13th and 14th to WLOY at 11am to hear their live news reads.
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WLOY Joins Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Saturday, July 10th, 2010 by The Professor
Filming begins this weekend on a Baltimore-set episode of the ABC program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Members of the Loyola community, including representatives from the Loyola Alumni Association’s Service and Spirituality Committee, have already volunteered to support the effort, but there is still a need for more help. We need to see more Loyola students at the project site this week! WLOY will be there with live broadcasts, music and free stuff to encourage more people to pitch in. It’s summertime, but that’s no reason to miss out on a great chance to help. You need to sign up to volunteer!
Boys Hope Girls Hope Baltimore, a non-profit organization that provides children who are at risk with a stable home, positive parenting, high-quality education, and other supports needed to reach their full potential. The Baltimore program opened a house for its male scholars in 2002, but has not yet established a dedicated facility for the girls. This project will offer Girls Hope and its seven promising young women a safe place to call home.
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