Drive for hard drives! Part 1

Even though when you read this blog you imagine this extremely glamorous radio DJ, rolling to the station in my Cadillac, wearing my $3000 Armani suits, I am a volunteer. Yes, that is right. I do this for the love of the radio broadcast. And the main reason I am a volunteer is because CJAM is a not for profit campus/community radio station. And with being a non for profit station geared towards non commercial radio, we do need a little assistance when it comes to the finances so we can bring you the quality programing CJAM does.

So now I bring you part one of two in what I am calling, CJAM's Drive for hard drives. In part one, I will explain why we do it, and in part two, which might be inthe middle of the drive, I will explain what exaclty goes on.

Why does CJAM need money from the community via the pledge drive? Well I will tell you. The black and white explanation is, it costs money to run a radio station. Just like any other business venture, there are a lot of overhead costs to run a radio station the size of CJAM. We have a lot of high tech equipment, that is constantly in need of repair. We have extremely hard working staff that needs to be paid. We have office supplies and all sorts of other things that are needed in day to day operations. But usually each year we focus on one major upgrade the station needs and target that as our goal for the pledge drive.

With the technological world taking over, computers are a big part of the world of broadcast. Obviously CJAM is not going to have the BEST of the BEST of the BEST but the station does try it hardest to keep up with the always rising industry standards. This years pledge drive is no different as we embark on our drive for hard drives. Computers run almost everything in the station, from on air broadcasting, to the recording studio, to the day to day office work. Over the past years, as most computers do, the computers at CJAM have become obsolete. So in 2007, the CJAM Board of Directors decided it was time for some new computers. And the drive for hard drives was born!

to be continued....