KCSB Hosts UC Radio Network Conference—Free Events

KCSB-FM. the college-and-community radio station at UC Santa Barbara (and the UC’s first licensed FM radio station) is hosting the 2024 conference of the University of California Radio Network (UCRN), happening this coming Saturday, Nov. 16, at UCSB.

Registrants will be gathering from as far north as Humboldt County and as far south as San Diego. There will be attendees from all six terrestrial radio stations in the UC system — KDVS at UC Davis, KALX at UC Berkeley, KZSC at UC Santa Cruz, UCSB, KUCR at UC Riverside, and KUCI at UC Irvine — plus UCRN-affiliated stations at Loyola Marymount University (KXLU) and at the Claremont Colleges (KSPC). There are also two online-only stations sending delegations from UC campuses: UCLARadio.com and KSDT at UC San Diego.

We have also RSVPs from Stanford U, Cal Poly-SLO, Humboldt State U, the Silicon Valley’s edgy KFJC (at Foothill College), USC, even Cuesta College’s little station that could, KGUR.

Events include panels, workshops, roundtables, DIY screenprinting, and a DJ set. It will be a day full of a range of offerings for our 200+ registered participants, but there are also two “bookend” events that are both free and open to the entire public.

Here’s a glimpse:

1) At 1030am, we are excited to announce a Keynote Lecture by Ernesto Aguilar, which will take place in the UCSB University Center’s Corwin Pavilion. Ernesto is Executive Director of Radio Programming and Content Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives at KQED, San Francisco, and he will provide the UCRN conference’s plenary address: “Media Futures: Life Informed by College Radio.”

The talk will run from 1030-1130am. A 45 minute lecture will be followed by a Q&A .