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Marshall did not keep its 2001 press releases in its archive section...amazingly, there are some from 2000, though. Luckily I found some of them on the Wayback Machine. I posted all of them on this page, but you can click the links below to get to your desired destination faster.

WMUL students receive awards
Marshall University's WMUL-FM receives 'Best of Show' Award
WMUL celebrates 40th anniversary
WMUL's awards are Marshall's blueprint for success
WMUL-FM Students Win Nine Broadcasting Awards
Marshall University WMUL-FM students win Omni Award
Live from WMUL: Complete Strangers
Air conditioner floods WMUL, causes damage

WMUL students receive awards

Dec. 12 - Students from Marshall University's public radio station, WMUL-FM, received three awards in The Communicator Awards 2001, which were presented Nov. 29 in Arlington, Texas.

Marshall won an Award of Distinction in the category "Radio Station Promotion," and two honorable mention awards in the categories "Radio News" and "Radio Public Affairs Program."

"This is an outstanding accomplishment," said Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, associate professor of broadcasting in Marshall's W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and faculty manager of WMUL-FM. "I am proud of the honor the Award of Distinction and the honorable mention awards bestow on WMUL-FM, the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Marshall University."

The Communicator Awards come from a national organization that recognizes outstanding work in the communications field. Entries are judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. There were 996 entries in The Communicator Awards 2001 Audio Competition.

Marshall's winning entry in the Award of Distinction category was "Too Sexy," an in-house promotional announcement broadcast in WMUL-FM's Promotional Announcement rotation from Tuesday, July 31, 2001 through the present time. It was written by Amanda Rhodes, a junior from Gandeeville, W.Va., and Chris Roberts, a recent MU graduate from Eleanor, W.Va.

The honorable mention winners were:

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Marshall University's WMUL-FM receives 'Best of Show' Award

Nov. 12 - Marshall University's public radio station, WMUL-FM, received the "Broadcast Best of Show" award for the third straight year at the 80th Annual National College Media Convention/2001 Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) College Annual Competition ceremony. 

Presented to Marshall University on Sunday, Oct. 28th in New Orleans, the award winning entry was in the News/Feature category and was a compilation of segments from feature reports, newscasts, sports play-by-play, documentary and drama productions edited by Vince Payne, a senior from Hansford.

According to Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, associate professor of broadcasting in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall and faculty manager of WMUL-FM, the campus radio station competed with other broadcasting stations from colleges and universities throughout the country who's staff attended the annual convention. 

"This is an honor for WMUL-FM and all the student broadcasters featured on the 'Best of Show' entry," Bailey said. "Winning speaks well for Marshall University, as the student broadcasters of WMUL-FM consistently earn top honors in direct competition with nationally recognized colleges and universities."

The "Best of Show" competition is sponsored in cooperation with the International Society for News Design and is open only to publications and media outlets that send student delegates to the national convention. 

The competition is divided into eight newspaper categories, two yearbook categories, two magazine categories and two broadcast categories. The broadcast categories were radio and television and were offered for only the third time in 2001 to recognize excellence among broadcasting attendees.

The entries were evaluated for general excellence, but emphasis was placed on reporting and leadership as expressed through content, Bailey said. 

More information about the award may be obtained by contacting Bailey at (304) 696-6640.

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WMUL celebrates 40th anniversary

Oct. 31 - WMUL-FM, Marshall University's student-run and operated radio station, celebrates its 40th anniversary Thursday, Nov. 1. The WMUL staff will have a 40th anniversary dinner at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Memorial Student Center.

"Our students have a lot of pride," said Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, associate professor of broadcasting in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall, and faculty manager of WMUL-FM. "Our students have the motivation to do the work. They don't talk about doing it, they do it."

The station has won more than 400 awards since 1985, including 110 over the past two academic school years. WMUL-FM also is undergoing major renovations to its Newscenter and staff room.

"Dr. Bailey has really taken what little we had done and moved the station into a national leader in collegiate broadcasting," said Dr. Keith Spears, vice president of communications at Marshall, and former faculty manager of the station. "WMUL has integrated within the university very well. It is accepted as a professionally operated station."

The number of students involved each semester with WMUL varies. This fall, 100 students are on staff - 30 freshmen, 27 sophomores, 21 juniors, 18 seniors and four graduate students. Community volunteers, numbering about a dozen this semester, also help out, Bailey said.

Bailey said WMUL is totally student-run and operated in an academic setting. He said less than half of its staff members are radio and TV majors, yet the station "is run extremely well."

Bailey said the station is well-respected at Marshall, but admits it had "to earn that respect." Cooperation on campus, Bailey said, is a key to WMUL's success.

"The president (Dr. Dan Angel) has been available to us and the athletic department has always let us call games live," Bailey said. "Some schools run into extreme difficulties with that."

WMUL, which reaches more than 70,000 households in the Tri-State, including parts of Ohio and Kentucky, plays a wide variety of music and alternative programming, and is on the air 20 hours a day. Music formats include jazz, urban contemporary, adult contemporary, contemporary religious, world, heavy metal and progressive rock.

WMUL was established in 1961. Its objectives are to operate a full-service radio station for and about Marshall, and to provide a professional broadcasting atmosphere in which students and community volunteers may gain experience to develop and to enhance appropriate communication skills.

More information about WMUL-FM is available at www.marshall.edu/wmul.

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WMUL's awards are Marshall's blueprint for success

(a column by President Dan Angel for the Herald-Dispatch)

May 21 - In many ways, Marshall University has established a reputation for excellence on the regional and national levels. As our administrators, faculty and staff strive to bring national prominence to all academic areas, our students continue to raise the bar and challenge us to look beyond our success with a focus toward the future.

Marshall University's latest accolades were recently bestowed upon the talented students and faculty working within the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Continuing a long award-winning tradition, students representing Marshall's public radio station WMUL-FM captured 12 awards during the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Awards competition.

Twelve institutions from Michigan, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia submitted more than 211 entries for this year's competition. Competing against institutions such as The Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati and Ohio University, WMUL again distinguished itself as a leader in college radio broadcasting and production.

WMUL student broadcasters won five first place, four second place and three third place awards in the awards program's five radio categories. Marshall and Kent State University shared the 2001 Sweepstakes honors, earning the most awards overall in newspaper, magazine, radio and television categories.

In addition to their SPJ honors, WMUL students have received national recognition this year with awards from the Associated Collegiate Press Annual College Competition, Omni International Production Awards, College Media Advisers Inc. College Radio Awards and the Communicator Awards Crystal Awards of Excellence.

Graduate student Todd McCormick; seniors April Vitello, Brandy Barkey, Nicky Walters, Chris Roberts, Vince Payne, Robert Harper, Patrick Sheehan, Kurt Schneid, Randy Sutherland, Larry Buckland, Alvin Jewell; juniors Jerod Smalley, Homer Dawson and Erica Pierson, and sophomore Stephanie Lowe are to be commended for their outstanding efforts.

During the past decade, WMUL and its students have attained more than 380 state, regional and national awards for outstanding broadcast achievements, including Outstanding College Radio Station honors from the Marconi National College Radio Awards. Since 1999, the station has earned more than 100 awards for excellence in college broadcasting.

I applaud Dr. Hal Shaver, dean of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, associate professor of broadcasting and faculty manager of WMUL, and the many faculty members who have played an integral role in building Marshall's foundation for excellence in broadcasting.

As we work to build an even greater Marshall University, it is the successful programs such as WMUL-FM and W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communication that provide the example from which we are crafting our blueprint for future success.

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WMUL-FM Students Win Nine Broadcasting Awards

May 8 - Students from Marshall University's public radio station, WMUL-FM, received four first place awards and five honorable mention awards during the West Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters Association's 2000 broadcast journalism awards ceremony on April 21, at the Civic Center in Charleston.

The students competed with commercial and noncommercial radio stations from throughout the state. "Winning four first place awards, especially one in the Outstanding Sports Operation category, is quite an accomplishment considering that the students are competing with broadcasting professionals across West Virginia," said Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, associate professor of broadcasting in the William Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at MU and faculty manager of WMUL-FM.

According to Bailey, this effort caps an outstanding year by the volunteer student staff of WMUL-FM in garnering recognition for Marshall University from state, regional and national broadcasting organizations that evaluate the work done at campus radio stations.

The first place award-winning entries were:

  The honorable mention award-winning entries were:

With the addition of these awards, the student broadcasters have received 53 awards in various competitions during the 2001-2001 academic year. The students' grand total of 53 awards this year also includes 25 first place awards, nine second place awards, five third place awards and 17 honorable mention awards.

The judges of the West Virginia Associate Press Broadcasters Association radio contest for 2000 were members of the Alabama Associate Press Broadcasters Association. More information about the awards may be obtained by contacting Bailey at (304) 696-6640.

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Marshall University WMUL-FM students win Omni Award

Apr. 5 - Students from Marshall University's public radio station, WMUL-FM, received one Silver and two Bronze Omni Awards in The Omni Intermedia Awards Fall 2000 Radio Competition. The winners were announced February 23, 2001 by Media Corp. Inc. in Lexington.

"This is an outstanding accomplishment to be recognized as having produced some of the better programs and promotional announcements in the country," said Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, associate professor of broadcasting in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at MU and faculty manager of WMUL-FM. "I am proud of the honor these Silver and Bronze Omni Awards bestowed on WMUL-FM, the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Marshall University."

The Silver Omni Award winning entry by WMUL-FM was in the Radio Commercials, Promos and PSA's category. The winner was "I Want My W-M-U-L" an in-house promotional advertisement broadcast in WMUL-FM's Promotional Announcement rotation from September 26, 2000 through the present time. It was written and produced by Chris Roberts, a senior from Eleanor, W.Va.

The Bronze Omni Award winning entries by WMUL-FM were in the Radio Documentary and Radio Drama categories. The documentary winner was "Reaping the Whirlwind: The Raid on Guyandotte 1861" written and produced by Patrick M. Sheehan, a junior from Huntington and produced by Kurt Schneid, a recent graduate from Hewitt, N.J.; Randy Sutherland, a senior from Barboursville; Brandy Barkey, a senior from Pt. Pleasant, W.Va.; Larry Buckland, a senior from Kimball; Alvin Jewell, a senior from Pineville and Chris Roberts, a senior from Eleanor. It was written and produced for JMC 334 Advanced Audio Production class and broadcast February 15, 2000.

The radio drama, "War of the Worlds Y2K," was written, edited, and produced by Chris Roberts, a senior from Eleanor. It was broadcast April 1, 2000.

More than 500 radio entries were judged on audio quality and concept development. In order to judge the entries, the Omni Intermedia Awards brings together a wide variety of professionals working for highly respected companies. The fall 2000 judges came from such companies as CNN, CNN International, NBC News, The Associated Press, and TCI Inc. among others.

"The Omni Awards were created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding media production in a variety of fields," said Jim Owens, senior administrator of the Omni Intermedia Awards. "This award recognizes the converging field of media production and rewards those companies who can capture the imagination and effectively communicate their message."

Winners of The Gold, Silver and Bronze Omni Awards come from radio stations, production facilities, advertising and public relations agencies, government entities, technicians, narrators, writers and other professionals associated with the production of audio broadcasts and materials. Some of the fall 2000 winners include CBN International, National Geographic Ventures, The Golf Channel, Chicago Tribune, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

"This is truly a remarkable achievement considering that the Journalism and Mass Communications students such as Chris Roberts and others enrolled in JMC 334 Advanced Audio Production are listed as winners alongside some of the nation's more notable commercial production companies," Bailey said.

More information about the awards may be obtained by contacting Bailey at (304) 696-6640.

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Live from WMUL: Complete Strangers

(from reporter Kristen Comer of The Parthenon)

Mar. 30 - Huntington is becoming familiar with the Complete Strangers.

The five-member band performed in the studio of Marshall's radio station Thursday night. WMUL 88.1 FM broadcast the live concert during the weekly King of Rock show, which begins at 6 p.m.

"We consider ourselves a rock 'n' roll band," Complete Strangers frontman Pike Holt said. "We want to bring the soul of rock 'n' roll to the people."

The members of Complete Strangers, who hail from Portsmouth, Ohio, played almost a dozen original songs, including "Lonely Kids," "Into the Kitchen" and "Second Coming."

Nathan Boggess, host of the King of Rock show, asked the band to perform after he saw their concert at the Borderline nightclub in Huntington.

"They put on the best show I've ever seen in this town," Boggess said.

The band has performed at local clubs such as the Stoned Monkey and has had airplay in Huntington, Portsmouth, Ohio, and Athens, Ohio. Its members are working on their first album, which will contain 10 songs. Although Complete Strangers does not have a record deal yet, Holt said he is optimistic.

"We're going to send the album around and try to get some more airplay," he said.

Bass player Sarah B., a junior at Shawnee State University, said the band formed about a year ago. "Most of us have been friends since high school," she said. "At first we all really liked lame music," Holt said, "but now we're cool."

Drummer Ryan Jewel said the band has a variety of influences, including David Bowie, the Talking Heads, the Rolling Stones, the New York Dolls and Prince.

Boggess said he thinks the Complete Strangers has a distinctive sound.

"It's kind of late 70s, like the Rolling Stones," he said.

During the concert, Holt told Boggess that listeners cannot put the band in any specific genre.

"We have some elements of punk, rock and soul," he explained.

He said the band's name doesn't really have any special significance.

"I just thought it up one day," he said.

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Air conditioner floods WMUL, causes damage

(from reporter Holly Barker of The Parthenon)

Mar. 10 - Marshall's radio station, WMUL-FM 88.1 made a big news splash Monday. Literally.

Students and faculty at WMUL found themselves in about an inch of water after an air conditioner above Studio B leaked. Studio B, located on the 2nd floor of Smith Hall, is a production studio used to record documentaries for class and home to expensive broadcasting equipment.

At about 1 p.m., students began moving equipment from the studio in an attempt to salvage it from water damage. Stationary equipment was covered with garbage bags while smaller items were moved to a dry hallway.

"This is the third time it's happened," Vince Payne, student station manager, said.

He said the first flood was in 1993 and another happened two years ago.

Dr. Chuck Bailey, faculty manager for WMUL, said the cost of damages in '93 was $33,769. Most of the damages were covered by insurance, but WMUL was responsible for replacing studio furniture totaling $4,540.

The equipment in the studio includes a digital editing machine, turn table and triamp speaker system.

Bailey said the water is due to condensation from the air conditioner. It could possibly be the result of the air conditioner not being properly cleaned.

"We lost a very expensive computer," Bailey said.

The computer was purchased in 1999 for $7,800. The rest of the damages for WMUL's latest flood has not yet been assessed. Bailey said they will just have to wait until they try to use the equipment and see what doesn't work.

The Physical Plant and day time custodians were not available for comment.