Title: WFMU: Dragging Radio Into The Present
Presenter: Ken Freedman, Station Manager & Program Director, WFMU & Founder, Free Music Archive
Time & Date: 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M., Thursday, August 13, 2009
Location: Theatre C300
Description: For over fifty years, New Jersey’s WFMU has been one of the world’s most reknowned non-commercial radio stations. Although it’s transmitter covers only a portion of the New York City area, WFMU is known within media circles for being a trailblazer in social media and alternative licensing and copyright issues. But as Station Manager Ken Freedman explains, the transition from being an FM radio station to an online entity hasn’t always been so easy. Freedman will discuss how one traditional media outlet made the leap and how the transition continues more than twelve years after it began.
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It was refreshing and inspiring to hear someone from outside education, research, policy or law. Ken brings some cool thinking into our mostly very uncool profession. I think I want to quit education and work in public and community media.. at least when I’m at a party and am asked what I do.. I wouldn’t have to worry so much about being a party killer. But then, it is clear to see Brian Lamb, Jim Groom and Alan Levine bring cool respect and more than a little personality into education work. Maybe there is hope. Next opened I reckon we do more. Bring in artists, poets, philosophers, and performers who comment on the issues and widen the space and scope in which we can talk and think about all this stuff.
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