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Hey everyone, welcome back. Our first meeting was a big success. Apparently we signed up over forty new members! That's phenomenal and we could still get more next week. Sorry if the meeting was a little slow and administrative, we had a lot of stuff to go over.
I really want to stress the need for new committee members. We have a great team already, but we can always use more help. Plus, it will give you a chance to become officers next year. Even though it's been a lot of work, I'm really glad I decided to do it.
Make sure you keep track of your points. It's all in the BECA bible.
What else?

About the FCC, as some of you may know the FCC approved the Bellsouth AT&T merger. Now there’s only AT&T. This means that despite being broken up into a bunch of different companies back in the day, AT&T has reconglomerated (is that a word?) And is bigger than ever. Now they’re not just phones either, they also own a ton of DSL lines and all of Cingular. The republican controlled FCC is taking some heat over the issue from the newly democratic house. The article I talked about yesterday can be found here:

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I’m sure you guys have all heard about the Aqua Teen Hunger Force ads that caused so much havoc in Boston last week, even though they were used in a bunch of other American cities and no one even noticed. Apparently Turner has agreed to compensate the city for the money that was spent shutting the city down while they were removed. Negotiations are still going, but the price might go into the seven figure range. Someone last night was saying as much as two million. That's a lot of money.

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The links I mentioned last night were Journalismjobs.com and SpotDJ.

Kevin at SpotDJ is looking for part-time people, and this could be a good opportunity for you radio kids because it can out you in direct contact with bands. They were on TV right before Christmas: Video.
Here's some of Kevin's description:

We are looking for students to contact and interview bands as well as edit the interviews.

The primary roles and responsibilities are:
Contacting and interviewing bands
- Contact band management and/or publicist to set up an interview with the band.
- Interview the band over the phone or local artists in our office, recording the conversation to MP3.
- Edit interviews into clips for use on SpotDJ. These clips will be heard while people listen to music through iTunes as well as on the SpotDJ website and other websites.

Marketing and promotions
- Create an artist account and post the audio spots online
- Coordinate with the band and/or their manager to add a badge to the artist site
- Promote SpotDJ online, including improving and promoting SpotDJ's MySpace page and maintaining a presence on other online music-related communities and blogs
- Assist at Noise Pop and other music events handing out post cards or other marketing material promoting bands

Employees are expected to come into the office most of the time, although there will be times when working from home/school will be fine as well.

Contact Kevin here.

Marcus is looking for interns at FreeFM as well.

Contact Marcus at his work email here.

For other internship and work information check out the board outside of Dr. Camacho's office downstairs to the right of the stairs.

Thanks everyone for coming out, here's to the start of another great semester in CSB! I love you guys.