Southern College’s Division of Mass Communication will start working its personal radio station, WSUB 106.1 LPFM “The Bluff,” following a cooperative settlement with the Louisiana Group Improvement Capital Fund.
The low-powered FM station might be operated totally by the Division of Mass Communication, with school, workers and college students main day by day programming and operations. WSUB replaces WTQT, a long-running 24-hour gospel station that beforehand broadcast on the frequency.
“The Division of Mass Communication is so proud to prepared the ground in working the college’s FCC regulated radio station,” stated Dr. Yolanda Campbell, interim chair of the Division of Mass Communication. “I am particularly excited to see our college students display how this hands-on coaching will put together them for his or her careers within the business.”
The station will function a sensible coaching facility for college students pursuing careers in radio, podcasting and audio manufacturing. Programming will replicate Southern College’s neighborhood spirit by selling cultural consciousness, supporting native expertise and delivering instructional content material.
WSUB’s musical format will mix gospel, hip-hop, R&B and pop music. The 24-hour station goals to assist college students strengthen their broadcasting abilities, have interaction audiences and put together for media business careers.
Campbell will function station supervisor. Nicolette Gordon, a Southern College alumna and skilled radio skilled, has been named operations supervisor. Jammin Jacque Griffin, longtime program director at WTQT, will proceed in the identical function at WSUB.
“Radio has all the time been about neighborhood, and there isn’t any yet another ready than Southern to grab this superb alternative to be a voice for the Baton Rouge neighborhood in music and content material creation,” Campbell stated.
