Community Advisory Board Meeting 3-7-11

Community Advisory Board Meeting 3-7-11 5 pm WTIP Conference Room

In attendance: Jennifer Schulz, Deb LaMusga, Dave Seaton , Thelma Hedstrom, Bill Hansen, Sue Hakes, Deb Benedict

Bill Hansen- facilitated the meeting

Deb B. explained to the board what she would like the outcome of the meeting to be like. She had sent 2010 reports from Program, News and Development Director and Engineer’s report and the 2011 Operating plane to CAB last week. She had asked for input on news and features, Daybreak, web site and other programming. She asked for honest, forthright feedback on the operations and programming of WTIP.

The group began by stating the WTIP is phenomenal and we are lucky to have this station in our community. WTIP is 99% great in every way.

FEEDBACK

Daybreak – Love the camaraderie and banter between Roger and Jay Appreciate the selection of news stories – one member stated that they did not believe WTIP needed to have this type of news program as MPR covers that. However, they now listen to Daybreak faithfully Likes the coverage Roger gives Grand Portage – very respectful manner One person was offended by Jay’s accent before the “Fishing Report”. Maybe could be Norwegian instead of Southern Most appreciated the lighter side of the news that they feature with some stories to balance hard news All had feedback on the ability to hear both men’s voices. Some could not understand because of compression(?) issues. Suggested that Roger needs to slow down not mumble and shorten news stories. Jay needs to complete sentences in same tenor. He seems to trail off at the end of some sentences. A few CAB members listen every day

Web Site Feedback ranged from strong like to strong dislike Dark colors on site are not representative of our community Hard to navigate and find certain items, not intuitive Do not like flashing items Photo script flashes too fast Love the playlists Love the content Too many layers Web Stream When listening thru I tunes, WTIP first appears and then it changes to named server

AMCC Need more phonetic pronunciations Different Hosts music can be jarring, sounds like they are playing their favorite high school music With lack of available volunteers, why have 2 co-hosts DJs need to say GRAND Marais, not GRAM Marais

Sidetracks Loves choice of music by hosts Love the depth of knowledge of music

Other Programming feedback All like Gregg McVicker and Undercurrents All like North Shore Weekend – one expressed loves her music selection Sports broadcasts are very important Say score more often Concern about voices clipping off Hosts should not rip on other teams and their players Jazz programmers are great

News A few people believe we should have WTIP news people covering county, city, EDA meetings and delivering news on such. Have noticed less news stories. All agree audio from meetings is not good.

First Thursday Community Conversation is well liked Good response on having Third Thursday Feedback that bullying program was not as good as it could have been. Felt that there was not a good cross section of student body represented. Also understood that it was part of the Youth Project.

We should have a PSA soliciting obituaries