For the third year in a row, our media-buddies over at DCUtv will be doing a 24 hour live broadcast! This year, the broadcast is in aid of The Make a Wish foundation, and donations can be made by clicking over to the DCU MPS website and clicking one of the Donate buttons. You’ll also be able to watch the madness unfold, with over 35 different shows including a 24 hour Big Brother, starting at 23:59 tonight, the 19th of April. Also, there are many awesome prizes to be given away to viewers.
Plenty of the DCUfm team are taking part, so we’ll see you there!
Every day this week we will be publishing answers to a question we asked our members: “What do you love about DCUfm?”
If you want to share the story of why you love DCUfm, email it to Cian@DCUfm.com in 200-300 words!
“DCUfm encourages so much creativity. When I was assigned a show this year with three people I didn’t know, it led two of us to stick to it and create our own show in the next semester. We picked up two others who were fans of the show before and developed an idea.
The main thing that makes DCUfm so fantastic is how inclusive it is; it really is like one family. It brings people together. I’m in third year and the three people I work with in DCUfm on the show I met for the first time this year.
It also allows so much experimentation and is virtually limitless for determined radio presenters. On our show, we have decided to join forces with another great show for a two hour broadcast and that is only possible with the freedom of DCUfm, the talent it attracts and the friendly atmosphere it encourages.
It allows as much or as little input as students are willing and able to put in, which means very busy students can commit to as little as one news bulletin a week, but eager radio heads can push their radio show as far as possible and really create something original that they can be proud of.”
Every day this week we will be publishing answers to a question we asked our members: “What do you love about DCUfm?”
If you want to share the story of why you love DCUfm, email it to Cian@DCUfm.com in 200-300 words!
“Setting up and hosting LGBTA Weekly in the second semester has been a fantastic experience. Not only is it great to broadcast opinions and play some of the best music going, the moments that matter to me the most are the interactions with listeners.
Be it through Twitter, Facebook or Ask.fm, responding to our listeners and supporters has been wonderful. Never in a million years did we think our Twitter account would get recognition from the Human Rights Campaign, the NOH8 Campaign or people such as Jay Brannan and Adam Bouska.
Through Facebook, we’ve been able to reach so many people, clocking approximately 844 people reached as a result of one of our Facebook statuses (yes, it was about one of our presenters doing to show in his underwear if we got enough likes, but still).
And finally, our advice section of the show enabled us to help those in need. By setting up an ask.fm page, listeners were able to anonymously ask us our opinions on their dilemmas. Hopefully, we answered the questions submitted carefully and appropriately. The feeling gained from giving people advice is truly something else.
All of these have made me love DCUfm. I’m so grateful to have been given this experience and so glad to have joined up in semester 2. I will most certainly be back for semester 1 2013!”
