2008 Woodie Awards
WMNJ: From airwaves to the web
Seth Gorenstein
Issue date: 2/22/08 Section: Arts and Leisure
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Business Manager Katharine Dolin ('09) and Music Manager Paul Aufiero ('08) are wrestling with the wireless internet in The Space.
They are trying to stream WMNJ's first online remote broadcast from its internet broadcasting launch party.
To Dolin, Aufiero and the entire WMNJ student executive board, the long road to getting WMNJ online was strewn with technical setbacks, but this particular one wouldn't crash the party.
After Dolin got the remote broadcast up and running last Wednesday night, anyone near a computer on Drew University's campus could tune in online to hear, in the ears of the WMNJ executive board, a Drew radio renaissance.
"It's finally here, and we're all ready for [internet broadcasting]," WMNJ Assistant General Manager Alicia Lutes ('08) said.
"Half the campus is like, 'Oh, WMNJ still exists?' But there's a niche that's really excited, and I think it'll be a great tool for the entire campus."
Internet broadcasting was almost three years in the making for Drew's student-run radio station.
The current head executives- General Manager Mark Tauriello ('09), Assistant General Manager Alicia Lutes ('08), Programming Director Amanda Brennan ('08) and Dolin-inherited a radio station in disarray and had to build from the ground up.
"After the circus of an exec board left the radio station to mold over, it was at the urging of President Weisbuch that those interested-myself, Alicia Lutes [and] Mark Tauriello-attempted to revive the station," said former Business major Alexandra Plante (CLA '07), now a graduate student at Fordham University.
"Our first meeting with [Student Activities Program Coordinator] Leigh Anne Walters was in April 2006," Lutes said.
"The first thing we brought up was that no one has a radio on campus, but we all have computers. The biggest way to have people listen to us is if they can hear us on their computer."
Although the internet broadcasting budget was approved by the administration, the executive board knew their studio first needed a makeover.
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