East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Council of Trustees honored WESS 90.3 with a glass-engraved award for having won the College Radio Woodie Award, handed out to the best student-operated radio station in the country by mtvU. <\/b>From left to right are: <\/b>Junior <\/b>Amanda Woods, the station\u2019s business manager who is from Hardwick, N.J., and is majoring in communication studies; Senior\u00a0Jill Monica, the station\u2019s manager who is from East Stroudsburg, Pa., and is majoring in communication studies; ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D.; Rob McKenzie, Ph.D., ESU distinguished professor of communication studies and WESS\u2019 faculty adviser; Pat Ross, council of trustees chairman; Kara Fleck,\u00a0the station\u2019s music director who is from Lehighton, Pa., and is majoring in media communication and technology; and freshman Roberto Gooden, the station\u2019s promotions director who is from Stroudsburg, Pa., and is majoring in communication studies.<\/p>\n
East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Council of Trustees honored WESS 90.3 with a glass-engraved award for having won the College Radio Woodie Award, handed out to the best student-operated radio station in the country by mtvU.<\/b><\/p>\n
WESS beat out more than 100 other college radio stations, including Boston University, University of South Carolina, University of California-Berkeley, Ball State University and Indiana University.In late February, the news broke that WESS had been ranked in the Top 10 for the 2014 mtvU College Radio Woodie awards. MtvU is a subsidiary of MTV and Viacom, broadcasting at 750 universities and reaching almost nine million college students nationwide. Top 10 qualifiers were judged on three segments of data: Reporting playlists to the College Music Journal (CMJ) and the ranking by Princeton Review; its appearance in social media and the frequency of which they are mentioned; and its presence on www.ratemyprofesor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n After mtvU compiled its list of the Top 10 college radio stations in the country, a nationwide vote was held to determine the overall winner. Votes were accepted online 24 hours a day and at predetermined booths on ESU\u2019s campus for three days. In addition, to mark the last three hours of voting on March 6, there was a vote-a-thon in Stroud Hall, where nearly 150 students from McKenzie\u2019s Introduction to Mass Media class stopped by and voted for WESS for three hours in 30-minute intervals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU\u2019s Council of Trustees Honors WESS 90.3 for Having Won the College Radio Woodie Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9506,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}