Students get together and set up a campus radio station. Their goal: to broadcast live programmes on a regular basis. Now they're looking for people to join them - and present themselves and their project at the freshers' welcome at the information market (7 October).
It is quiet on the busy and otherwise rather noisy Mensa forecourt on the Haarentor campus this lunchtime. Instead of talking to each other, the students listen attentively. The first trial programme of the University of Oldenburg's campus radio station can be heard from the loudspeakers. Regular live broadcasts with reports, reports and music directly from the campus - that is the vision of the Campus Radio project.
The students have been working hard to realise it. The campus radio project days in June were an important step on the way to realising their own radio station. There, the creators presented their results and discussed the future radio format, content and technical implementation with experts. "The project days were very fruitful, now it remains to be seen whether the initial spark for the campus radio will take hold," says Prof Dr Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, university lecturer for "Music and Media".
The campus radio station is an idea that she developed in conversation with Dörthe Bührmann, programme director at the Oldenburg local station "oeins". It quickly became clear that the radio could only work if the students took it into their own hands. So they initially brought Lydia Skrabania on board. She completed a Master's degree in Integrated Media and has a wide range of journalistic experience in radio. During her bachelor's degree at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Skrabania already worked at the campus radio station there.
Initially, she travelled with a recording device, took on one or two presenting roles and eventually produced regular reports and features. And in Oldenburg, she was a freelancer at "oeins". So it's no wonder that she was immediately enthusiastic about the idea of setting up a campus radio station for the university in Oldenburg. In her "Radio aktiv" seminar, the students on the Integrated Media master's degree programme learned about production and programme planning and discussed the structure of reports and presentations.
"The students made great progress and developed fantastic formats and programmes," says Skrabania. It was an advantage that the Integrated Media students were familiar with the technical details and were therefore able to concentrate fully on the content. But that's not all: in the "Project Management" seminar with Thomas Schneeberg, research assistant and project leader at C3L, the students also dealt intensively with the planning, financing and advertising for the Oldenburg campus radio station. In addition to technical and content expertise, they also learnt about radio aesthetics and the legal and economic framework during the project days.
Campus radio is aimed at students from all Schools. The organisers are happy to welcome anyone who would like to take part, regardless of whether they have previous experience or not. It is already clear that the different subject backgrounds of the students make up the special appeal of the station. By the way: there was already a "CampusRadio" at the university - a journalism programme that was funded by the Federal Employment Agency for several years. In 1995, the weekly radio programme was launched on Radio Bremen 2 in co-operation with the University of Bremen. Many university graduates made the leap into journalism with "CampusRadio".
The creators of the Campus Radio project introduce themselves at the welcome event for first-semester students: Monday, 7 October, at the InfoMarkt from 8.30 am to 2.00 pm in lecture theatre building A 14.
Broadcast times: Every first Thursday of the month, 18.00 to 20.00 on Oeins (VHF 106.5 MHz and internet stream). Next broadcast: 7 November, 6.00 pm.
Next editorial meeting: 16 October, 8.00 pm in A8 (media lab). Interested parties are welcome!
