New media is all the hype these days with their hi-definition cameras and other miscellaneous junk, but whatever happened to good ‘ol radio? We’re still alive and thriving! Radio is still one of the most important broadcast mediums today—and there’s no end in sight. Be part telecommunication history by becoming a part of KCSB! We are having our Winter Orientation meeting for prospective programmers, newscasters, sportscasters, deejays, and enthusiastic volunteers on Wednesday January 6, 2010 at 6pm in CHEM 1179! Come on down if you want to be part of our totally cool, volunteer-run, non-commercial community radio station! No previous experience necessary—we’ll teach you everything you need to know to be successful in radio broadcasting! Hope to see you all there!
For Monday, December 21, 8 to 9 a.m.: Santa Barbara Lectures presents Swimmer Lynne Cox and Author Marisha Pessl. ** Tune in for KCSB’s acclaimed lecture series: hour-long lectures air Monday mornings from 8 to 9 a.m. Lectures are sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Women’s Center, Multicultural Center, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
Coming Up:
Monday, December 28: Jonah Lehrer, author of “How We Decide: How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind”
Monday, January 4: Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”
Of her next broadcast (Dec. 19th), DJ Darla Bea says, “On this week’s edition of ‘Rock It Properly,’ a lesson in Ska Music. We’ll skank our way through Jamaica with the Skatalites, visit Coventry and the Specials, then complete our musical tour in Isla Vista with The Henchmyn. This is a message to you Rudy-Get ready to rock out!””
“Rock It Properly” airs alternating Saturdays in the Fall from 6-8am.
“A Brief History of KCSB”, the opening miniseries of the Santa Barbara Independent’s KCSB-themed column “The KCSBeat“, arrives in the present day with a final chapter on the 2000s:
The KCSB of the 2000s is the KCSB we know today: varied, experimental, prone to change things up every few months, a container of multitudes.
2001 saw the station take advantage of opportunities afforded by the internet, overhauling its theretofore fairly static web site and upgrading its web servers to offer listeners worldwide the ability to tune in via an online stream. This meant that former KCSBers could keep up with the station even if they’d long since fled Santa Barbara. This would have prepared the far-flung attendees of KCSB’s 40th anniversary reunion, held in 2002 in Oak Park, or its 45th in 2007. You wouldn’t think DJs of decades past would necessarily rush back over great distances to their old college station and reminisce, but then, KCSB has that effect on people.
Read the column here, or the entire history here.
In a recent edition of The KCSBeat, the Santa Barbara Independent column covering all things KCSB, Colin Marshall returns to the 1990s, a time when KCSB’s various musical and ideological blocs made peace and created the more open, all-accommodating sensibility the station has today after finding themselves united in a series of common causes: Continue reading ‘The Transformative 1990s Recounted in a Recent KCSBeat’
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to Chris Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University, Fellow of All Souls College and author of The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000, the latest in Penguin’s sprawling History of Europe series. Wickham integrates textual and architectual evidence to craft a new, fascinatingly detailed historical experience of the era beginning at the decline of the Roman Empire and ending at the rise of European nations as we know them today. Eschewing both teleology and grand narratives, Wickham presentes the Middle Ages not as a mere stepping stone to modernity but as a fascinating period in and of itself.
The Marketplace of Ideas airs every Thursday at noon.
* Headlines: Election in Chile, Children and health care, Drilling causes earthquakes
Patty Lincoln, Jorge Cuellar
* Youth voices in Copenhagen Daniel Alvarenga
* 16 Days Opposing Violence Against Women Frieda Werden of WINGS
Announcer: Joelle Wagner
Engineer: Daniel Alvarenga
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* Obama receives Nobel peace prize
* Homeless man freezes to death in SB, social workers want Warming Centers
* UCSB clerical workers forced into layoffs
* Community group and residents making LA’s Skid Row a better place Lucas Brooks
Announcer: Cathy Murillo
Reporters: Joelle Wagner, Cathy Murillo
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Of tonight’s “Culture of Protest” broadcast, Professor Dick Flacks writes: “This week marks the 45th anniversary of the occupation of Sproul Hall by hundreds of Berkeley students led by the Free Speech Movement–an action that resulted in mass arrests, a massive strike and the ultimate achievement of FSM’s free speech demands. This was the occasion for Mario Savio’s famous argument for mass civil disobedience. On tonight’s program we’ll be visited by students and faculty who, last week, staged a fast on the UCSB campus opposing tuition increases and the defunding of higher education. We’ll hear their story, and listen to some songs and sounds of the FSM demonstrators 45 years ago.”
“Culture of Protest” airs Thursdays from 6-7pm on KCSB.
* Headlines
* Reports from climate change conference in Copenhagen & local event
Reporters: Patty Lincoln, Matt Raab, Lucas Brooks, Daniel Alvarenga, Cathy Murillo
Announcer: Matt Raab
Engineer: Daniel Alvarenga
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