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I am wondering what policy other non-comm/college stations have.
Someone on the staff of our college wants to do a live remote from a local business that serves alcohol. That business would love for us to come on a Friday night and do all of our programming for the night from there.
There are several problems that we have preventing us from doing this.
First the board of regents (who is the licensee of the station) would be against us doing a broadcast from a place not accessible to everyone, since they serve alcohol there you have to be 21 to enter (if we were to do the broadcast not even I, as the station manager could go to it).
Second, since we are non-comm we can not make any calls to action on the air, no matter how careful they would be doing the broadcast, someone will end up saying "come on down to ..." or if the owner were to come on with them "you guys have some great food...", etc. Since this business could always be a potential future underwriter that would make any calls to action that go out on the air advertising, which is illegal. Even if we have them sign something saying that they will not underwrite with us, and that the station is getting nothing from doing this remote, they are still providing a place for us to do the remote and they are providing the electricity for us to do the broadcast, therefore we are really getting something from them.
I met with our faculty advisor and we discussed this, basically we are saying no to doing a remote from any business.
What practice do other stations do for remotes from businesses, do you say no, or are there some workarounds to go ahead and do this?
<P ID="signature">______________
Joshua Werner
http://www.wisconsinbroadcasting.com
90.3 WRST-FM Oshkosh
Station Manager & Webmaster
http://www.uwosh.edu/wrst
[email protected]</P>
Someone on the staff of our college wants to do a live remote from a local business that serves alcohol. That business would love for us to come on a Friday night and do all of our programming for the night from there.
There are several problems that we have preventing us from doing this.
First the board of regents (who is the licensee of the station) would be against us doing a broadcast from a place not accessible to everyone, since they serve alcohol there you have to be 21 to enter (if we were to do the broadcast not even I, as the station manager could go to it).
Second, since we are non-comm we can not make any calls to action on the air, no matter how careful they would be doing the broadcast, someone will end up saying "come on down to ..." or if the owner were to come on with them "you guys have some great food...", etc. Since this business could always be a potential future underwriter that would make any calls to action that go out on the air advertising, which is illegal. Even if we have them sign something saying that they will not underwrite with us, and that the station is getting nothing from doing this remote, they are still providing a place for us to do the remote and they are providing the electricity for us to do the broadcast, therefore we are really getting something from them.
I met with our faculty advisor and we discussed this, basically we are saying no to doing a remote from any business.
What practice do other stations do for remotes from businesses, do you say no, or are there some workarounds to go ahead and do this?
<P ID="signature">______________
Joshua Werner
http://www.wisconsinbroadcasting.com
90.3 WRST-FM Oshkosh
Station Manager & Webmaster
http://www.uwosh.edu/wrst
[email protected]</P>