IDEAS (WARNING:
some of these "ideas" are loaded
with jargon intended for different/respective audiences.)
CLC RADIO
Special Events:
MONDAY NIGHT LAIR-BALL (aka Monday Night Football in Lancer's Lair on the HUGE HDTV screens)
We would be selling popcorn (freshly
made or in bags - whichever is cheaper for us!), "bar" pretzels, and
Triscuits in multi-flavors!
IF more than 10 FOOT-BALLERS show
up, we would order pizza and sell each slice for a dollar! (CLC Radio's
"cost" of 2-for-3 deal available at Mike's, Pat's, or Phil's Pizza) OR "Mexican" from that newer place
with the stuff that ENLACE used on a Wednesday night in a C-wing event back in
Fall 2008.
Possibly hand out NERF-BALLS that
could have printed on them, "CLC Radio, NERF-BALLIN' it for YOU! Or some
other MacGuffin-like slogan.
Staffing would start out as CLC
Radio already volunteer staff (as "part of our extra duties as assigned"), DJ
volunteers, student workers not having enough hours scheduled, A PT-Temp or
-Perm CLC staffer, faculty or staff volunteers?
This idea does not necessarily
have to "be married to" CLC Radio as a revenue enhancer. We could arrange
it as a co-sponsored event, where CLC Radio with a different club each Monday
(rooting for their "favorite" team?) could share in the revenue gain - when applicable?
Monies assigned to CLC Radio would be donated to the Keith Ryan Media
Scholarship or similar as well as some CLC Radio revenue (as of F2009, not
required)
Film documentaries of the Arts:
The place would either be in the Film Room at the
University Center (easier to book at shorter notice) OR in the C-wing Auditorium OR in the D-100 Film Screening
Room. Watch for dates & times upcoming! Some films we are planning
to show:
The Rhythmatist
(1985) (Music &)
http://www.wmgd.net/peacefilm/
View the
Making of
Possibilities
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock
Statement On The Passing Of Joe Zawinul
One-Man
Show A Musical Documentary (2004) (& GLBT)
Daddy
and the Muscle Academy (1991) (& Art & GLBT)
WHO
GETS TO CALL IT ART ? A film by Peter Rosen and featuring Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollack
Six-String Samurai (1998)
Trailer
Spinal
Tap The Final Tour (1998)
ONE LOVE: THE BOB MARLEY ALL STAR TRIBUTE featuring Jimmy Cliff, Toots
Hibbert, Eve, Busta Rhymes, Ziggy Marley, and many more!
REBEL MUSIC: THE BOB MARLEY STORY featuring much music to be heard!
TALAMAN SOUND CLASH: FURTHER ADVENTURES IN HYPERCUSSION directed
by Alex Winter
THE NOMI SONG
the story of Klaus Nomi from director Andrew Horn
TOM DOWD AND THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC featuring Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin,
Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Redding, and More - FILM-DVD
AMERICAN
MULLET directed by Jennifer Arnold - FILM-DVD
DIG! The Dandy
Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre fight it out - FILM-DVD
FEMI KUTI LIVE AT THE SHRINE Afrobeat son of Feli Kuti - FILM-DVD
FREESTYLE THE ART OF RHYME a new film from DJ ORGANIC about hip hop's
greatest and latest freestyle stars! - FILM-DVD
LIVE AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Baaba Maal - FILM-DVD
STOP MAKING SENSE! BUY THIS DVD! Directed by Jonathan Demme and featuring
music from the Talking Heads and the big suit - FILM-DVD
Barry Manilow - First & Farewell - at The Pond in Anaheim (rel date:
October 31st, 2006)
From The Big Apple To The Big Easy The Concert For New Orleans - From The
Big Apple To The Big Easy The Concert For New Orleans - at Rhino
James Taylor - A MusiCares Person Of The Year Tribute - at Rhino
The Black Crowes - Who Killed That Bird Out Your Window Sill... The Movie -
at Rhino
Dream Theater - Score - 20th Anniversary World Tour Live With The Octavarium
Orchestra - at Rhino
Interview with Mystery Science Theater 3000 producer Jim Mallon
Mystery Science Theater
3000 (Our midnight show specials after the movie!)
Harryhausen, Ray - The Harryhausen Chronicles - at Rhino (& Sci-Fi
fans)
Jimmy Scott - Jimmy Scott If You Only Knew - at Rhino
George Harrison - Concert For Bangladesh - at Rhino
Gov't Mule - Official Store Product 'Rising Low DVD-VHS'
Gov't Mule - Official Store Product 'The Deepest End CD-DVD'
That is just a taste; tasty, huh?
We may also be selling popcorn (freshly
made or in bags - whichever is cheaper for us!), pretzels, and Triscuits in
multi-flavors, with the caveat to the public: "ALL FOOD SOLD AT THIS EVENT IS TO
BE EATEN ONLY IN THE MAIN LOBBY ONLY, BEFORE THE SHOW, DURING INTERMISSION, AND
AFTER THE SHOW."
CLC CLUBS:
THE PANTASTICKS,
A steel
drum ensemble with the Thomas B. Mitchell-designed visual theme based on the CLC
version of the play, "the Fantasticks!",
and a musical theme consisting of songs from Musicals, Movies, and Television
themes and popular songs! How fantastic is that?
WEBSITE COMING PANTASTICKALLY SOON!
public
BETTER SLOGANS FOR CLC. Here are some positive slogans collected by me, and
some named by me.
Some of these can be interchangeably plural. Some of these can be used as
department slogans in or out of public press.
COLLEGE OF LASTING CHOICES
COLLEGE OF LOFTING CHALLENGES
COLLEGE OF LEARNING COMMITMENTS
COLLEGE OF LANCERS' CHAMPIONS
college of Learning Champions
college of lasting conversation
college of lasting cohorts
college of linking cohorts
college of lasting comprehension
college of lasting connection
college of learning comprehended
collage of living canvases
collection of larger content
(They can't all be gems)
Why could we get an FCC educational Broadcast License?
Really? Since when?
Actually, no college - since Spring of 2006 - can apply for an FCC
Educational Broadcast License (the kind that starts at 150watts and can go up
from there; not the type you will find in Round Lake, IL, called WRLR-LPFM, that
is at or BELOW 100watts - it is called Low Power FM and is ONLY available to
Religious organizations or community or governmental groups. ONLY.)
OK, but, let's dream that the FCC re-opens the application window process for
a College's (or High school's; a college's application competition) applying:
Well, that is a 30 step process that shouldn't take more than 6 months, from
Board of Trustee deliberation to sending the filled application online (the ONLY
method available as of Spring 2008 for Broadcast Permit application submissions)
to the FCC.
The main criteria required of applicant's is that they must prove that the
license will be maintained MAINLY for educational purposes and NOT be in
competition with area commercial stations - specifically NOT teaching classes
over the air (not allowed) - by generally educating the college audience (or
stakeholders, if you prefer that buzzword):
1. US Supreme Court May, 2007 decision (overturning Illinois Supreme
Court decision from IL vs. Governor State Univ. of April 2006) giving unfettered
(non-approved - iow, no administrative nor employee controls as to any produced
content, but may control the proper use of equipment when applied according to
BROADCAST INDUSTRY STANDARDS; when physical access is disallowed, other means
may be procured by student producers to continue broadcasting by other or remote
means) - 1st amendment publishing rights are afforded ALL Student Produced Media
and students producing; including but not limited to: News (in print, audio,
video, or online), Radio (including, but not limited to music, sports, news,
talk, plays (written solely by students, and not already published for the
stage) interviews, opinion, news analysis, etc.), TV, Websites/pages, Blogs
(already under previous protections covering 15-year-old and older bloggers), or
any other information delivery system not yet invented nor thought of.
2. Serving the broadcast area to fill gaps and any voids of what commercial
stations may not be providing - usually genres of music such as new or
independent artists, jazz, classical, blues, Americana, etc.
If a license applied for comes up against another application, a point system
is used based on the ORIGINAL APPLICATION (iow, you can't have a "do-over") of
each competing party to determine which party is most deserving of being granted
a license - this means that an narrative plea from a High school may indeed be
better worded or phrased than a college's!
Can NPR or PRI "Save the day" ?
Well, National Public Radio or Public Radio International (or even Public
Media International) have - especially since the application windows for
colleges were closed - been courting COLLEGE'S in hopes of "revitalizing perhaps
already antiquated or neglected equipment previously owned or used by a college"
in order to "help them get their station back on their feet" - they offer at
least one million dollars to build anew a station facility - even if one already
exists (tax dollar waste?), and insist on leasing the college property for that
same privilege. But, whenever asked or pressed as to how would "students
be involved", the answer has ALWAYS been along the lines of, "oh, well we
can offer them internships, but not on-air slots - let's just leave that to the
professionals and the syndicated shows". NPR/PRI ONLY go after schools in
areas where little or zero PRI/NPR stations can be heard - this of course would
eliminate College of Lake County from ever being approached, as being able to
receive either in Grayslake is not an issue. As well, NPR or PRI would not
ever want to hear from CLC in the other direction (as in "wouldn't you like to
transmit here, NPR or PRI?" - a dream that would never come true.)
So playing ONLY mainstream music to bring in patrons to a poorly run
cafeteria in a basement with no windows at times of the day or evening when
students that would listen ONLY to mainstream music (++) are either in class or
at home or work or studying in the library, is a waste of time, money, food,
energy, ideas, youth, and won't impress anyone at the FCC.
++ and if you ask them, they usually say "almost anything
except country" and also is quite rare when you just look at the demographs of
The Drive, Q101, B-96, etc - VARIETY is KEY, not "Mainstream" nor sameness.
Sameness and Pop is for High school, and if CLC really wants to show New
Students that CLC is NOT a big high school,, than it needs to stay grown up and
provide grown up ideas and adult opportunities to students in media production
and delivery - and that does not mean ONLY NPR or PRI Talk shows, either!
But, emulating NPR or PRI in some of it's content delivery methods is not a bad
idea, it's just that it shouldn't be the ONLY idea.
If any of the above was dry, then moisten it with
this