A dozen colleges and universities will be
showcasing hot, local bands on respective campuses -- sharing content
and broadcasting among member Internet stations on the IBS Student
Radio Network by Backbone. April 24-25, 2009
Worcester,
MA April 20, 2009 -- Back by popular demand, the IBS Palooza
Student Music Festival is coming from a college radio station near you.
This Internet rock fest is only the second installment of what promises
to become an institution in the nationwide college music scene.
Originally intended as an annual fall music festival, the first Palooza
held last September was so successful that IBS Student Radio Network
member schools decided to hold the nationwide, multiple venue festival
again this month. This Spring festival will be available on the free
College Radio Tuner app for the iPhone, as well as on iTunes Radio.
This month's two-day weekend event is another step in establishing
Internet radio as a legitimate entertainment medium, as the
Intercollegiate Broadcasting System's IBS Student Radio Network by
Backbone (IBS-SRN) (http://www.studentradionetwork.org)
launches the Web's second live music festival, called "Spring
IBS-Palooza". The increased sophistication of student radio clubs
combined with advances in Internet broadcasting technology now allows
multiple stations to digitally share and play each other's live content
and provide valuable exposure to emerging local artists from around the
world. The Spring IBS-Palooza will be available on the Internet from
each participating school's website, as well at WIBS and Apple's iTunes
Radio, College Radio category, April 24-25, 2009. The College Radio
Tuner app can be downloaded free through http://www.studentradionetwork.org/tuner/.
Last fall's inaugural IBS Palooza Festival successfully broke new
ground in the areas of both education and entertainment technology,
including coordinating multiple live stations all syndicating their
live content on a real-time basis using peer-sharing radio automation
software. As the only live multi-venue music festival created for the
Internet, it harnesses the technologies of both Apple and Backbone.com
to enable live syndication of streaming content among several stations
simultaneously. As an educational project, it opens up the student
radio experience to a broader, more exciting arena of involvement.
Together, with the added power and reach of the iPhone, students and
organizations will use this Spring weekend to attract even more support
for their stations, hone their live event broadcasting skills and
processes, and most importantly, have fun.
The Festival also aims to help local, emerging artists gain wider
exposure through student radio and the Internet. Most bands will be
performing live at their host school's campus while live on the air,
and some schools will combine their efforts to create an even larger
live concert event. During non-concert hours, stations will be able to
air live music from other time zones or use their Mac-driven Backbone
Radio automation software to run highlights of Palooza from their
station or syndicated from any participating school.
The following is a partial list of stations scheduled to participate:
University of Connecticut (WHUS)
NEIA New England Institute of Art, Boston
Simmons College, Boston
Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC (WCCU)
Long Island University, Brooklyn (WLIU-BK)
Roosevelt University, Chicago (WRBC "The Blaze")
Goucher College Student Radio, Baltimore
Towson University, Baltimore (XTSR)
SUNY Stony Brook, NY (WUSB)
Oklahoma State University (KXZY)
Central Methodist University, Fayette, MO
About The College Radio Tuner (Download free iPhone College Radio Tuner)
The free College Radio Tuner application for the iPhone allows a
worldwide mobile audience to find and listen to cutting edge,
student-run Internet radio stations, all of which are members of IBS.
It allows the user to scroll easily through a list of stations, find
and click to play live radio right on the iPhone or iPod touch, whether
connected via WiFi, 3G or Edge networks. The Tuner automatically
searches for and adds new stations as they become available.
About IBS-SRN (http://www.studentradionetwork.org)
In 2007, Backbone Networks Corporation, in cooperation with the
Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), launched what is believed to
be the first true Internet radio network, one that specifically aims to
enhance the student radio experience.. The IBS Student Radio Network
enables student operated stations to syndicate live and produced
programming among member stations, as well as automatically access a
vast amount of royalty-free programming from worldwide third-party
sources.
This formative network is establishing cooperative relationships with
content providers to bring its member stations vast collections of news
feeds, royalty-free music from emerging and alternative independent
artists, and other programming that will be available only to stations
on the Network. In addition, member stations are able to draw
programming from one another through shared server databases, as well
as have access to each other's live feeds, including remote sporting
events and concerts.
In addition to Backbone Radio's powerful automation and management
software, the IBS-SRN builds upon (Apple's QuickTime™) MPEG-4 AAC, the
worldwide streaming standard, as its streaming format. Conforming to
this standard not only ensures universal acceptance across all
listening platforms, but it also enables each school to partner with
the Apple's iTunes store in preparing material, including artist/album
annotation and cover art images that display to listeners' free
QuickTime players. Select IBS-SRN stations are available on iTunes'
College Radio category.
About IBS (http://www.ibsradio.org/)
The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) is a nonprofit
association of mostly student-staffed radio stations based at schools
and colleges across the country. Over 1,000 IBS member stations operate
all types of facilities including Internet - Webcasting,
closed-circuit, AM carrier-current, cable radio, FCC-licensed FM, LPFM
and AM stations.
