Fredonia Radio to be featured in New York Times as finalist for national award

On the heels of a successful year of awards and other achievements, Fredonia Radio Systems has hit the ground running to start the 2011-12 academic year.

In July, Fredonia Radio was named a finalist for best college radio station internationally in the New York Festivals, a college radio competition. Professor Laura Johnson, Fredonia Radio's advisor, together with 2011 graduate Keith Kropski, attended the awards banquet in New York City on behalf of the station to accept the award.

In addition, the station was notified by College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) that it has been named a finalist for “Best Promo” in the CBI National Competition. The winner will be named in October at the CBI National Conference in Orlando, Fla.

These and other awards accumulated throughout the last year have led Fredonia Radio to be recognized by The New York Times, which will feature the station in an upcoming article on college and internet radio, scheduled  to be published this October. Fredonia will be highlighted alongside such highly regarded institutions as Yale University.

Fredonia Radio General Manager Jud Heussler, '12, has already been interviewed, discussing how Fredonia Radio remains on the cutting edge of the internet and social media age. Fredonia Radio will be visited in-person by a New York Times reporter early this semester as well, to see the station's operations and meet its student personnel firsthand.

Heussler, a TV/Film and Audio/Radio major from Amherst, N.Y., can also be heard regularly on the air with Buffalo's Kiss 98.5 FM -- one of the highest-rated stations in the U.S.