ALEXANDRIA NIEVES
Special to The Leader
Fredonia Radio Systems sent 12 members to New York City over the weekend of March 1-3 after the station received eight nominations from the International Intercollegiate Broadcasting System Conference.
Senior history major Haley Carmon, the staff representative of FRS, went to the conference.
“I was feeling confident and eager to learn and experience the conference as a whole. It was pretty exhilarating to be in the city and representing FRS and Fredonia. There was an inkling of doubt [of how the station would do], but that didn’t stop me from enjoying the experience and learning new things . . . Unfortunately, we didn’t win anything. It’s disappointing, to say the least, but I know it’ll make us grow stronger and work harder,” said Carmon.
They kept their spirits up after it all and are rising up to do more things moving forward.
Senior physics major Kyle Mascara, the news director said, “We got Steve Harvey-ed, because we were told we won, but found out it was wrong and we didn’t win.”
Senior music education major Marilia Riva Andrade, the general manager said, “I learned about management through the workshops that were going on, I spoke with other general managers and they told me some of the things they do.”
Carmon said, “What’s next for FRS is to continue producing our content and adding improvements that we feel are necessary. Many of us at the conference won, as Marilia put it, knowledge. We all think that the information of how other stations run may help us in growing what we do here at FRS.”
Riva Andrade didn’t want the group or all of FRS to lose encouragement and wanted everyone to keep improving in their shows.
“We can take what we learned from IBS, and pass the knowledge down to the younger classmen. We set the standard so we have to keep pushing forward and upward,” said Riva Andrade.
“I know Sydney has said she wants everyone to record their show so all of the variety is available. We want to increase our publicity so more people know about us and our station . . . improving the inner work of the station is in the future,” said Carmon.
Senior political science major Sydney Mulkey, WCVF program director said, “Something that I am going to improve on for the station is teamwork between WCVF and WDVL. I have more ideas for promos, ids, and many more to make the station sound more professional but also fun at the same time.”
“I see great things coming from this past weekend in the future for FRS,” said Carmon.
The station was returning to IBS after winning two years back-to-back for “Best college radio station (under 10,000 students),” a nation-wide recognition.
“Knowing that we are the only station to win twice makes me feel like we can win again,” said Carmon.
FRS may not have won this year, but it is using what it learned in hopes of returning to the top.