SURG Members,
Happy New Year!
As your secretary, I have the exciting responsibility of welcoming you to another year of membership to the coolest (most vocal!) student group around, and to inform you all that our first broadcast of the year is just around the corner!
With O-Week only a little over a month away, the planning for our first broadcast of the year is in full swing. Tom H-B and the exec have been slaving away throughout the holidays (what holidays?) to secure better equipment and better funding to set up 2008 as SURG’s biggest and brightest year yet. Unfortunately, we won’t be on air until after O-Week, so we’ll be filling the three days of O-Week with hands-on training, workshops and recording sessions. More info on that will be coming shortly.
Broadcast starts on Monday 3rd of March and runs for three weeks. If you are interested in applying for a slot on-air then we need you, yes, you to email us with:
- your availability
- an outline of your show
- title
- description
- names of guests (if any)
- preference for 1 or 2 hour slot
- day/time preference
- mobile number
Slots fill up fast, so please get back to me asap. You also need to be aware that the more developed the program plan, the more likely it is to be put in a prime-time position.. so think hard! Your program can be as creative as you like, and feel free to diverge away from the conventional music-and-chat format. If you have some ideas for panel discussions, interviews, ‘Live at the.. Bernard Eldershaw Room’.. or whatever you think would float boats around campus, we would love to have it on air.. just explain it first in your application.
This semester we’ve also put together a free beer competition supported by Explorer Publishing and Fishrock Beer. There’ll be more information coming later, but suffice to say there will be a few opportunities to score slabs of beer for very little/no effort at all, so make sure you get your friends listening to USUFM.
And another thing, 2008 is a new year (who woulda thought?), so all members will need to renew their membership. This can be done at the SURG O-Week caravan. For this you will need an ACCESS card. No ACCESS card = No membership. In the long term, no ACCESS card means no USUFM, so support your student union and take advantage of all the benefits that being a paid-up member of USU brings.
For more info or to contact any other members of the Exec, check out the website at www.surgfm.org AND don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing your ideas!
–
Samantha Hutchinson
Secretary
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