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1) Just 77 days until we all get together in New Orleans for the National Conference. Are you registered for the conference and booked at the hotel? Students bringing faculty, faculty bringing students? Carpool with your student newspaper staff and start media converging on the trip.

2) In early September, paid CBI member stations will be receiving a ballot to elect CBI officers. Please look for it and vote for the people you want to lead this organization into the future.

3) In case you missed it from Radio Ink:

(8/3/2001) Broadcasters Lose Major Battle in Online Streaming Case. Judge Rules Against Radio.

A federal court has thrown out a challenge from the broadcasting industry against the U.S. Copyright Office, which ruled late last year that radio stations must pay extra royalties to broadcast over the Internet.

The U.S. District Court for eastern Pennsylvania dismissed the case brought by the NAB.

NAB President/CEO Eddie Fritts was quick to respond. "Broadcasters, record companies and consumers have long enjoyed a symbiotic relationship whereby airplay on radio stations benefits all parties, along with generating enormous revenues for the record labels."

"We're disappointed that this unique relationship will be disrupted by the court ruling. Broadcasters currently pay in excess of $300 million annually in music licensing fees to compensate songwriters and music publishers. Any additional fee to compensate record companies would be unfair and unreasonable, and for that reason, we are reviewing our options."

The NAB will now have to decide if it wants to appeal the ruling. The NAB had argued that radio stations shouldn't have to pay the extra fees and that the Copyright Office had exceeded its authority in making the ruling.

A REPRESENTATIVE OF PUBLIC RADIO said that college stations' educational mission should be considered as arbitrators try to decide how much radio stations and others must pay copyright holders to stream copyrighted material over the Internet. --> SEE http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001080102t.htm

4) Ideas for recruiting new students:

a) letter to faculty from related departments (Communication, Theatre, Business, Physical Education, Sports Management, Politcal Science, Journalism, Computer Science, etc) announcing recruitment meeting

b) personal letter sent to campus addresses to new Communication majors

c) chalk classroom boards and sidewalks with meeting information

d) advertise on your own radio station for new members

e) offer to speak about station recruitment during first week of class

f) ask student government officers to talk about station when they address new students during orientation

g) station appearances at Orientation moving-in day, picnics or other events

h) mass e-mail to returning majors in related departments about recruitment

i) note on station website

j) you announce college newspaper recruitment on air in exchange for them running an ad for yours

k) "Free Tours" sign outside the station during first few weeks of class for new students

l) flyers around the campus

m) signs around the station with messages from successful alums saying how much the station experience meant to them

Warren Kozireski Interim Vice President-CBI

- CBI