Posts Tagged ‘iTunes’

98.5 Provides Diverse Listening Opportunities

It’s Tuesday night. Maybe you’re working on homework and need a little background music. Maybe you’re avoiding homework and need a distraction. Your iTunes playlist is overplayed and Pandora can’t seem to get your musical style just right. So what do you do? Perhaps turning to the good old radio is the way to go.

Senior Danette Curiale, of Cleveland, Ohio, and junior Alissa Bambarger, of Conneaut, Ohio, recently started broadcasting their own hip-hop radio show on Marietta College’s own WCMO 98.5 FM. The duo’s show, Hip Hop Hour to the Second Power, runs from 7-9 p.m. every Tuesday.

“We both like hip-hop a lot,” Curiale said, “We pick songs that are popular and that we like.” They are happy to take requests, both girls said, and they will play any suggestions they get, as long as they fit into the show’s genre.

Bambarger, who goes by “A-Bam” on the show, said her favorite aspect of doing the show is getting to play the kind of music she likes because there aren’t really stations around here that play it. “I never thought I’d have a radio show,” Curiale, better known as “D-Money,” said, “It’s different. That’s what I like.” Neither thinks having a show is very hard, the most difficult thing for both is finding edited versions of the songs they want to play. During the course of the show, they also have to break for campus and community announcements, as well as play public service announcements.

Curiale and Bambarger heard about an opening for a show through their sorority sister, Amy Hayes, who has had a show for the past two years. “We just had to e-mail the station manager and fill out some paperwork with a basic idea and timeslot. It was really simple,” Curiale commented. Now they grace the airwaves for your enjoyment on those boring Tuesday nights, so take a break and tune in.

This article was written by Joe Dillon, a student taking Media Writing Two at Marietta College.  Look for more articles from the class to appear on Writing on the Mall in the coming weeks.  If you are interested in writing for Writing on the Mall, please e-mail patrick_h at writingonthemall dot net.

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iTunes Story now up on Examiner.com's Cleveland Page

If you remember me talking about it, I was recently hired to write technology-related stories from a college student perspective for Examiner.com‘s Cleveland page.  And low-and-behold, I am now published on the site, starting with my story discussing Apple’s changes to iTunes.

You will still receive the great Marietta College reports that I’ve been doing.  The only thing that will change is that all technology-related stories will be published on Examiner.com.  A link to the article will be posted here on Writing on the Mall.

I encourage you to please go check out my stories, and those of the other Cleveland Examiners.  There are some great writers on many topics at the site.

Story:  iTunes announces tiered pricing, loses DRM-encrypted songs – Examiner.com

Tuesday Drops: Mummy 3, Fall Out Boy

As Christmas approaches, less and less “Big Hits” come out.  They like to try to release them either two to three weeks before the 25th (like The Dark Night), or around Black Friday.

So, I present to you the releases for this week in music, movies, and video games.

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