{"id":2479,"date":"2012-03-01T09:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T17:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2012-03-13T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:32:37","slug":"campus-radio-station-off-air-goes-digital-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/03\/01\/campus-radio-station-off-air-goes-digital-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus radio station off-air, goes digital-only"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of March 4, Camosun College\u2019s radio station has been taken off the airwaves and is going online. CKMO Village 900, a non-profit, educational radio station located at the Lansdowne campus, has stopped broadcasting its AM frequency and will only be available to listeners by streaming online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the end for us,\u201d says Brad Edwards, Village 900 station manager. \u201cWe still have a station, we are still going to broadcast and students will still receive the same education.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Village 900 station manager Brad Edwards excited about digital (photo Sarah Henderson\/Nexus).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The radio station, established in 1973 and formerly heard on an FM frequency, provides training for students in the applied communication program (ACP).<\/p>\n

In September of 2000, the station struck a deal with Rogers Communications to relinquish their old FM location with Rogers agreeing to pay for the use of an AM transmitter.\u00a0When the deal with Rogers recently expired, CKMO\u2019s board of directors decided that the cost to keep the AM transmitter was too large.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an expensive venture, no matter how you look at it,\u201d says Edwards, who says the yearly cost of the transmitter was over $60,000. \u201cWe don\u2019t really have another option. We have to think about what\u2019s cost effective and bringing the station off-air and going online seems like the right answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allie Bowman, assistant promotion director at the Zone and ACP grad, says going digital isn\u2019t a bad thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be beneficial,\u201d she says. \u201cVillage 900 now gets a chance to play in the social-media world, intrigue new listeners, and, more importantly, students will still be able to gain that valuable studio experience. It\u2019s possible that Village 900\u2019s current supporters will not be able to adapt this change, but streaming online will appeal to a whole new demographic.\u201d<\/p>\n

By going fully digital, Village 900 will now be heard all around the world, for anyone who wants to tune into live stream, including those using smartphones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time that we embrace new technologies and adapt that into our program,\u201d says Edwards. \u201cI never saw this coming, but Village 900 is embracing this. We are going to focus on where we are going tomorrow and that is what is important: the new frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of March 4, Camosun College\u2019s radio station has been taken off the airwaves and is going online. CKMO Village 900, a non-profit, educational radio station located at the Lansdowne campus, has stopped broadcasting its AM frequency and will only be available to listeners by streaming online. \u201cThis is not the end for us,\u201d says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}