WUDM DETROIT, 103.1-CAFM, 2000. ERNEST PROMOTES PEACE DURING HIS SHIFT.

WUDM IS ALIVE AND, WELL...

Do campus oriented radio stations have their highs and lows? I'll be the first to raise my hand with an enthusiastic "yes." Is Detroit Mercy Campus Radio currently in another lull? Well, it depends on where you're looking from.

Detroit Mercy Campus Radio today has stability within the college radio community. We are a CMJ reporting station, have a high level of respect within the world of record labels, and continue to provide the future of modern music to all who choose to listen.

The issue, which always seems to be the issue, deals with broadcast stability and listenership. Those two items go hand in hand - if you can't broadcast, you'll have no listeners. Detroit Mercy Campus Radio has been fortunate to be a part of the webradio.com network for almost two years, as unstable as they are, to maintain a small level of listenership while broadcast ability has been up and down.

We are currently in another "we're having transmission problems" status. This is the third time we've been in this status in 5 years, and it doesn't do much to improve campus impressions of a campus-only radio station. Our Cable-FM Transmitter took a steam bath last summer in the room it was in, and failed to transmit properly when we turned it on in September. The problem has been looked at, been looked at again, and we're currently checking the cable connections in our dormitory network to remedy this problem.

In the meantime, our internet broacast continues to huff and puff along in its own instability, but works more often than not. I urge you to take a moment to listen to our internet broadcast, and let me know what you think of it. E-mail your opinion to the station's primary account, dmcr@subdimension.com.

Thanks for joining the continuing struggle for campus radio.

Chris Rohn
WUDM Music Director and Webmaster

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