Common Frequency
California
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Organization Description:

Common Frequency is a California-based organization dedicated to the providing information about non-commercial radio broadcasting within the United States to the public, with the aim of facilitating more public involvement in non-commercial radio.

Learn more at www.CommonFrequency.org

Internship Description: You’ve probably noticed the content crisis on your radio right now—there’s too few good radio stations out there promoting diverse and local music and talk programming. Maybe you’ve resorted to downloading most of you music online. Or maybe you listen to expensive digital radio. It doesn’t have to be this way!

Common Frequency is working to build more college and community radio stations to solve this crisis. Pay digital radio services like XM and Sirius don’t solve much because it’s the same old companies promoting mediocre programming— just on more channels. On the traditional FM dial, companies like Clear Channel and the American Family Association are buying up more and more frequencies on all parts of the dial. Clear Channel alone now owns 1200 radio stations and the company owns 247 stations in the nation's largest 250 markets. In the next few months we will have a chance to license an unprecedented number of new community/college stations and we need your help.

We are building teams of volunteers and interns who want to help build more college and community radio stations across the country. Be a part of the movement to shift the tide of the content crisis. Right now, we need help building our website, creating promotional materials, reaching out to communities across the community and building new radio communities.

 
Qualifications:   A Common Frequency intern should be interested in working with diverse sets of communities: students, unversity administrators, community civic groups, cultural groups, among others.

Owning a car and a willingness to travel are a plus.

Dates:   Summer and ongoing
Time Commitment:   A minimum of 10 hours/week, though 30 hours/week preferrerd.
Credit and Perks:  

Unpaid. Transcript Notation at UC Davis.

 
How to Apply:

 

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to Todd Urick, CF Coordinator, todd@commonfrequency.org.