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Cable access show expands its Oregon audience The show’s producers are using technology and special effects to highlight segments By Nicole Kristal Higher Education Reporter The inventor of interactive maps. A Baroque trio. A former prisoner of China. These all have appeared on “UO Today,” a half-hour interview show featuring members of the campus community. Recently, the cable access show, which has been on the air for about a year, has increased its au dience. It will now air in Ashland, Bend, Medford, Pendleton, Salem and Sunriver. Rebecca Force, associate pro ducer of the show, said she is pleased with the expansion. "We’re just trying to share this information,” Force said. “We’re trying to target people who care about this subject.” Force said the show, filmed once a week and produced by the Oregon Humanities Center, helps expose people to different ideas and research being conducted at the University. Steven Shankman, director of the Humanities Center, hosts the show. "At first we wanted to focus on the humanities, but eventually we started to highlight the Universi ty,” Shankman said. He said they’ve had the tennis coach on, as well as interesting people who are not affiliated with the University, such as former Chinese prisoner Harry Wu. “Part of the mission of the Hu manities Center is to get diverse points of view together,” Force said. Force said the show offers more than other interview shows. “Most interviews are 15 min utes long,” Force said. “Ours are 30 minutes, much longer than the mainstream media." Shankman said he became the host by default. "Since I’m the director, I fell into it,” Shankman said. "At first I found it intimidating to do.” To prepare for interviews, he reads the books written by guests featured on the show. Shankman said after the inter view “UO Today” often broad casts a lecture or performance by the person or people interviewed. In addition to in-depth interviews, “UO Today” has started using tech nology for dramatic effect and clarity. During a recent segment on a Baroque trio, the segment morphs from a shot of the trio rehearsing into a shot of the trio performing in concert, an effect that Force said she is proud of. In a segment on interactive com puter maps, the maps were dis played clearly and sharply with a di rect connection from the computer to television recording equipment. KWVA: Radio station plans to renew FCC license in the future N Continued from Page 1 The front office is coated with band photos, stickers, posters and ramblings written on the walls. Pictures range from Johnny Cash to Fugazi. Once inside the small, foam coated studio, you are surrounded by walls of CDs. A pair of turnta bles sits close to the microphones. Chism tries to pry open the boards below the turntables to fix the side that isn’t working while playing A Tribe Called Quest. He casually changes the records and CDs in between attempts to lo cate the power cord while answer ing phone calls from listeners. It’s all in a night’s work for Chism and Moore. Chism already knows what to play next as he sips a Snapple. The DJs are all volunteers and their shows range from Death Met al and Grind Core to the artist for merly known as Prince and Swing Music. What makes campus radio special is its eclectic array of mu sic, opinions and people. Chism got involved four years ago by helping his friends on their show. Moore started helping Chism out a year and a half ago. What start ed out as fun has grown into an avid passion for Chism, who started spending more time and money on music after he started the show. To gether they hold a three-hour hip hop show on Friday nights. “It’s not exactly giving up your Friday night,” Moore said. “It’s more like a pre-party that spreads the word from 9 to 12.” They mostly play requests and new material that comes in, but try to stick to old-school rap and hip-hop the first hour and more R&B and new music during file second half. Some of Chism’s favorites are Ice Cube, the Roots and the Pharcyde. He enjoys the feedback from listeners. “I play it whether I think it’s good or not,” explained Chism. “I might not think it’s good, but someone else might like it.” KWVA’s emphasis is the local community, said General Manager Ellen Riordan. Most commercial stations connected with larger cor porations have programming direc tors and general managers that come from other parts of the country. “1 don’t think most commercial stations care about supporting their communities,” Riordan said. "They care about making money —a very rational and real concern. Unfortunately, this concern comes at the expense of the com munity. KWVA is very committed to the University community and the Eugene-Springfield communi ty, and this is reflected in the di versity of our programming. ’’ KWVA is mostly funded through student fees, and Riordan believes it’s important for students to take an interest in what the station is doing. As the music director, Setzen has more than 100 DJs working at the station, and he gets about five to 10 applications from DJs each day. “Sometimes DJs do not under stand what a time commitment it is to come in at 2 a.m. on Tuesday night when they have an exam the next day,” he said. But there are rewards for work ing at the station. Setzen helps run the Hacienda show that highlights British music on Thursday evenings from 10 p.m. to mid night. He enjoys the freedom of playing whatever he wants on air. "One of the best parts is giving exposure to a lot of bands who would never get played on the ra dio if college radio never existed," Setzen said. Riordan sees KWVA as a train ing station for people. But mis takes will happen on a 24-hour schedule that runs 365 days a year. “Dead air happens, and com mercial radio stations hate it be cause it means that someone may turn the station,” Riordan ex plained. “KWVA has such loyal listeners that they don’t give up all that easily and appreciate our blunders because they’re real.” One of the most difficult parts of her job is maintaining good rela tions with the University and EMU administrations. "College radio is run by an eclectic group of people who often don’t fit the mold of a traditional student involved in an ASIJO funded group,” Riordan said. “Needless to say, administrative folks don’t necessarily understand us or our mission. What’s most im portant to me is to deal with all people respectfully regardless of what color hair or how many piercings they have, and I ask oth ers to do the same in return.” Her strategy is paying off and this year KWVA plans to renew their FCC license. That will ensure more years of college radio and op portunities for new DJs to take over the airwaves and play their music. "It’s more of an adventure,” Chism said. “It’s a start and a good way to get your feet wet. There’s a lot of music out there, and we have a lot to offer with a large spectrum. On any given night you’ll hear somethingyou like.” The 8MQJ Administration would like to welcome back Students, faculty and Staff. Jkwe a great winter term! Check out the EMU WEB PAGE http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~emumain/ The CMU Ticket Office your entertainment connection! We are a ticket outlet for the Hult Center, Fastixx, Wow Hall, University Theater, LCC Theater, U of O men’s basketball, and other area venues. 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