Fort Collins Youth Broadcasting

We’ve got a few things to show you that we’re pretty proud of:

Yeah, our traffic yesterday SKYROCKETED.  That’s like a week’s worth of traffic in one day.  Which makes us very happy.

And, secondly, the Coloradoan article was released today about us!  Woo!  You can find it here for probably a week or two, and we’ll be sure to scan the article or otherwise save it so you can read it in the future.

A representative of the Lyric Cinema Cafe contacted us about advertising.  Eeek!  Let’s hope they do!  Durrie is also trying to get in touch with Import Specialists about advertising.  Someone also contacted us about buying our mixer, so hopefully that’ll go through as well.  :)  That’s $280 potential dollars that could be made, which is enough to pay our bare minimum contracted expenses.

So, in short, things are starting to pick up!  Very rapidly, too!  Don is also trying to get a new web site for klikradio.org up and running this weekend, look forward to that as well.  Ed and Nick and friends are working away at marketing into other schools, and Programming….is lazy.  However, I expect them to work away at a finished format for school days and be done with it by May 5th.

Further, we signed up 5 new shows!  While all are from Poudre, it adds great variety to the line-up, including a new jazz show, a heavy metal-focused show, a new general talk show, and a few other things.  Look forward to these and more coming in the near future!

Technical Update!

Done So Far
The technical department how been working on the website mostly but also we’ve also finished editing the Power Hour episodes and will soon be releasing for podcast! Just waiting for the descriptions to be sent to us!

To-Do List
The technical is going to finish up our beta sites and in the end we’ll choose whichever one seems better. After that we will work with that basic idea and create a brand new site in which will be the official KlikRadio site. So basically also to edit the future shows. Klik-a-thon is coming up and we also have to prepare for that!

Finished
NOTHING! (Sorry!) 🙁

…a whole lot of other things.  We recently ran a survey of all the high school teachers in the district (minus Rocky, there was a problem e-mailing them, but we hope to get the survey out to them ASAP).  Overall, we’ve found there to be a decent number of teachers willing to support the station by playing it in their rooms during work days.

We’ll post the results of the survey once we figure out how to get it to the Rocky teachers.

Today at lunch we have a meeting to talk about a few problematic things.  Mostly the same problems we’ve been having: communication, enthusiasm, etcetera.  In my entrepreneurship class, we just started a section/project addressing policies and evaluation forms.  Maybe if I start evaluating people things will improve.

Also, a recent dedicated server purchase will increase our listener capacity from the measley 12 to approximately 200.  Should we need further upgrades, we’ll probably use a VPS as the “last resort” and buy dedicated servers when needed.

I’m also giving Programming something to do with their time by programming daytimes on KLIK.  Technical has set the web site deadline for Saturday, so that’s good.  Marketing…I’m not sure what they’re doing, and I’m going to figure that out at the meeting.  And Sales, well, heh, they haven’t made any.

So…it will be an interesting meeting!

…and as I find myself trying to do my AP Chemistry homework, I feel more and more inclined to write something about the ongoing mess that is FCYB.

Fortunately, though, things are starting to get together organizationally speaking.  I’ve required all groups (Marketing, Sales, Technical, and Programming) to come up with a manager / “leader,” who will report to me and start being the other bloggers you’ll see.  I’m going to require leaders to post at least one blog a week as a way to report to me.

I predict that there will be one FCYB event per week: a board meeting, a general members meeting, a managers’ meeting, and a get-together for members to work and collaborate.  While all groups will have to do work outside of these 4 days a month, these are just some thoughts that I have on what will go down event and meeting-speaking.

So…as things go on, hopefully you’ll see more and more updates come in from the different managers, and a few will be coming from me as well.  So, until next week, keep listening!