KNSU Staff
The Station Manager is responsible for the supervision of the daily operations of the station, all legal and policy matters, and the overall direction of KNSU. More specifically, the Station Manager:
- Informs advisor of equipment repairs or replacement, prepares information for purchasing equipment, prepares information for bids if necessary, prepares information for professional services contracts.
- Keep KNSU operating within the legal parameters set forth by the FCC, including maintaining a public file, maintaining equipment, developing policies to ensure the enforcement of FCC rules.
- Assign tasks and supervise all hiring, training, and development of executive staff through training sessions and evaluations. Maintain communication with staff through meetings and correspondences.
- Responsible for directing staff and to follow up with staff when problems occur.
- Represent KNSU on various committees and at various functions.
- Responsible for developing a semester budget, aligning expenses with hiring staff, promotions, equipment repair and replacement, telephone and faxing, special events. Budget reports will be submitted to advisor and SGA.
- Develop goals for executive staff prior to each semester. Develop or review mission statement. Communicate these goals and missions to staff and djs.
- Maintain computer system.
- Verify all invoices and bills as they come in and maintain copies of purchase orders.
- Make all policies to be enforced by the staff.
Performs other duties as needed, within the scope of the position’s responsibilities and in conjunction with the station that the station advisor deems station manager capable of.
Resignations must be submitted in writing at least two weeks in advance to ensure time for paperwork and smooth transition.
David Stoller
Major: History
Interests: Samurais, boobs, explosions, and beer
Musical Influences: Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Son House, Leadbelly, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr, Hank Williams III, Johnny Cash, and Portishead.
Brock Thibodaux
KNSU has a close and vital relation with Nicholls State University. Handling the needs of the university in relation to our capacities as a mass-media outlet are the responsibility of this position.
Duties
- Create/get a list of all the organizations on campus, get them to at least visit the station once a semester.
- Your job is to handle any requests for airtime from people on campus, we have 135 30sec spots/day (8am-5pm) just for them. Keep track of how many are still available vs. how many are in “play” and who those spots are for.
- You are responsible for these spots.
- Anything that is not from a campus org goes to another staffer, it is your responsibility to be sure they get that information.
- People wanting to donate money to the station for promotion or for good will are to be directed to the Underwriter.
- People wanting to donate items are to be passed onto the Promotions Director.
- Organizations can request we play certain music, do a mobile radio show at their events or have their events posted on our website and broadcast for free.
This position requires well-developed organization and networking skills. This person is the direct connection between KNSU and it’s artists, both recorded and live.
Duties
- Load reviewed music from CDs into the DJ computer library.
- keep a record of all the music we receive.
- Create an Excel spreadsheet with the following data:
- Name of provider/producer
- Cd name
- Band name
- Date received
- Accepted/rejected
- Create a process for Djs and students to submit music to the station; ALL music MUST be approved by YOU before being played. The only exceptions are for DJs or Staff who have proven competent at self-editing their own stuff.
- While responsibility for the station rests with the Station Manager, this position is liable for all music currently in the system.
- Contact the companies who send us music, create charts for the ones who want one.
Charts: a list of what songs were played how many times and how much they were requested. Assign duties that you cannot do to your assistant. Begin using that person to help complete the above responsibilities.
Many venues prefer to give items of value to us for the purpose of giving them away as prizes. This helps us keep and grow our listening base and it is great marketing for them. The Promotions Director works directly with the businesses and venues that choose to do this and manages the process from first contact with a potential sponsor of KNSU to handing the prizes into the hands of happy winners.
In addition to this, Promotions is responsible for creating ad campaigns to inform and convince people to attend our own events (ones created and put on by Nicholls State) and the ones that we receive tickets and other items for.
Requirements, listed by importance:
- The ability to work face-to-face with active business owners and their employees.
- Organizational skill to handle multiple events and contests.
- Ability to work effectively with fellow staff.
- Desire to act independently, under flexible guidelines.
- Some artistic ability for the creation of flyers.
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Important and relevant events happen here every day. It is equally important that we relay that information through our radio, giving KNSU a more functional role in student life.
Duties
- All noteworthy events concerning Nicholls Students should be typed up and posted in the News Binder.
- It is your job to get news items broadcast and to make sure DJ’s and the automated system are putting those details on-air at regular intervals.
- Work with our Public Affairs Director, you should help this person get all notices into the system and should also print these to be read.
