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...station has four full-time professional employees, the General Manager (GM), Assistant to the GM and two engineers. “We oversee the operation of the station in terms of bills and paperwork. But the actual day-to-day operation of the station is by students,” says Murphy. This work also includes keeping track of WERS membership because, as a non-commercial station, WERS gets its funding from member donations in addition to the college...
...staff also brings its experience to help better programming at WERS. “While I’m sitting at my desk doing paperwork, I listen to the station. When DJs come down after a show, they’ll stop in to talk to me. My main job is to support the students and guide them through the process of doing a great show,” says Rolando Carrera, Asst. to the GM. Murphy and Carerra meet twice weekly with student managers of WERS to discuss the station’s operation. “When issues...
...that students spend a lot of time at the station would be an understatement. O’Dette and Baudouin spend upwards of 30 hours a week at WERS; both of them got their positions in large part through just spending time at the station and learning as much as they could. Students come in to work the reception desk, check out new CDs that have come in for their program and just to hang...
...Dette began his climb up the WERS hierarchy his freshman year. “First semester, I worked at the reception desk and hung around the station a lot,” he says. But O’Dette was lucky. The show that he had listened to from home, “Nasty Habits,” was actually off the air that semester because the students who had started it graduated. “I was in the right place at the right time. They asked me if I wanted...
It’s that love of music and radio that brings students to WERS. “We’re here because we want to contribute something to the station,” says Karen Ruiz, a junior who is the music director for “Gyroscope,” WERS’ world music program. “Being from a different culture [Mexico], I thought that I could add to the music collection, or bring in music to play by people I’ve met at home,” she says. Some students...