Chapman U's Radio Station Spring 2013 Awards Announced

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Fri, 17 May 2013 18:50:57 +0000

Chapman Radio, described by its student general manager as “a very scrappy radio station” with both Communications Studies students and Chapman Radio Club members in charge of management and programming, has been listed by Princeton Review as one of the 20 most popular college radio stations in the country.

The Internet-only Chapman Radio is in the top 20 list thanks to the high rankings heaped on by student listeners. Princeton Review developed the list from a student-satisfaction survey sent to 122,000 students at 377 institutions. That Chapman Radio’s stamp of approval comes from its listening audience makes the award all the more sweet, says Zak Griffler ’13, Chapman Radio’s general manager.

Chapman U radio station’s music shows range from folk to hip-hop. Talk shows focus on everything from fantasy football to domestic and global affairs. Based on listener statistics, the station’s top show is 50,000 Speed Blender, “a frenetic wrangling of rock ‘n’ roll, open phones, live performances and guests both real and imaginary” that streams live on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Last week’s “Show of the Week” awarded by radio staff was The FAN-DOUBLE-TASTIC Hour with Chris Covell, a Thursday 10 a.m. variety show “filled with music, games, wild acts, stories, poems, humor and candy.”

Professor Allen Levy, who teaches radio and media history in the Department of Communications Studies and is faculty adviser to Chapman Radio, says the eclectic mix represents radio in its purest form. “It is absolutely the antithesis of commercial radio. I believe we are true to what radio should be,” Levy said. “That’s the fun of it.”

Chapman Radio operates today from a Henley Hall basement studio, and programming is streamed live via the Internet. The only public “broadcast” is into the Student Union at Argyros Forum. But live streaming and archived programming can always be found at the station’s website:
www.chapmanradio.com.

Students have also designed a mobile app for listening on mobile devices.

The Spring 2013 Awards for Chapman’s best radio shows were recently announced. Check them out here: [Semester Awards - Chapman Radio](http://chapmanradio.com/awards)

You can then click on the category you like and then click on that show and listen to all of the pod casts from that show for this past semester.

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