Children's Literature Is Not Many Other Things
I went to the informational meeting for an upcoming Simmons radio station today. I arrived sort of late, because I had class, so I slipped in and tried to catch up. It seems that next semester this radio guy who teaches Comm and Journalism at some other school is going to start a radio course at Simmons, and set up a station. It sounded delightful...not that I could/want to take the class, but I would enjoy having a radio show, I think. It always seemed fun when I sat in on Alex's, anyway. Then he asked me what major I was, and I said I was a graduate student in the Children's Lit program, and he got excited and suggested that I should do a children's show.
A Masters in Children's Literature does not mean I know anything about children's music.
Why does everyone think that I must know everything related to children ever? I don't. I don't even know that much about the lit, I'm still learning. I have no interest in a children's music radio show. Unless it involved reading aloud my favorite YA novels in serial form. Which I don't think would be legal.
posted by Rachel (a-big-apple) @ 12:19 AM
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I don't know. Would that be different from playing the audiobooks for YA lit over the air? (And is that different than playing songs from CDs the way most stations do?) But I understand why you're annoyed. I honestly don't think a children's show on a college campus would be a big hit...unless it were a "children of the 80's" show and you played all the theme songs to the cartoons you watched and stuff like that... :)
Well, the point of online radio is that anyone can listen to it from their computer. Just because it's a Simmons-run station doesn't mean it's geared toward Simmons listeners. But anyway.... I think that reading something aloud on the air is different from playing an audiobook because an audiobook has already been licensed to be in audio form, you know? It has to do with who owns the rights to what, and stuff.
Well unless the station they'd be starting would have a different kind of licensing thing from WHRC you would not be able to play an audio book because it would be multiple tracks by the same artist (at whrc we can only play 2 songs tops by the same artist per hour... somethign to do with licensing) And if you did a children of the 80s show you'd run out of things to play in about 2 shows (if that.) Not that you didn't think of that already.
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