Earlier this week we were pleased to announce the 2010 Directorate. Our next scheduled Dartmouth Broadcasting Overseer's meeting is set for February 5th and will mark the transition of power between the current and future Directorates. At this time we would like to thank our senior members for all of their contributions and aid in the selection of the 2010 Directorate.

2010 Directorate

General Manager - Madison Rezaei '12
Assistant General Manager - Shirine Sajjadi '11
WFRD Program Director - David Lumbert '12
WebDCR Program Director - Pierre Guo '12
Tech Director - Tony Quincy '11
News Director - Catherine Treyz '13
Finance Director - Mayuki Shimizu '12
Marketing Director - Ahra Cho '11
Recruitment Director - Richard Sunderland '11
Internet Director - Ricky Melgares '11
Sports Director - David Jiang '12
Promotions Director - Rosina Mummolo '12

Graduating Directorate Members:
Training Director - Shinian Ye
Social Director - Phil Aubart
Finance Director - Karli Beitel
Recruitment Director - Julia Cheng
General Manager - Schuyler Evans

By Schuyler Evans
General Manager
Dartmouth Broadcasting

With the end of 2009 comes great change at Dartmouth Broadcasting. Most notably, the current News Director Madison Rezaei '12 has been named the next General Manager of Dartmouth Broadcasting. The selection process for the rest of the new Directorate is currently under way. Also, 99Rock personality 'Sketch,' has decided to step down after a 2.5 year stint as the voice in the afternoon in order to let emerging talent grow under the tutelage of Operations Manager Heath Cole. Hopefully this new year and new decade will begin a new and even brighter chapter of history for Dartmouth Broadcasting.


Dartmouth Broadcasting celebrated the New Year with the 'Top 99 of 2009 Countdown' on the Modern Rock Station, 99Rock. The countdown began on News Years Eve at 4pm and Continued throughout New Years Day.


By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager
Dartmouth Broadcasting

Dartmouth Broadcasting had an active fall term contributing to three worthy causes; The Friends of Veterans of Vermont and New Hampshire, the Upper Valley Haven and Toys for Tots.

Through WFRD's connection with a local public access television show, 'Walking Through Life with Linda Carbino,' the station became involved with a benefit talent show that had all proceeds going towards the Friends of Veterans of Vermont and New Hampshire. The promotion of the talent show including six weeks of donated advertisements created by the staff of 99Rock and also three pro bono public appearances by WFRD Program Director David Lumbert '12 and General Manager Schuyler 'Sketch' Evans '10. Both Lumbert and Evans served as two of the three judges for the talent show.

By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager
Dartmouth Broadcasting

We are extremely proud to announce that WFRD was honored this year at the New Hampshire Association of Broadcaster's Golden Mic Award Ceremony this year. Dartmouth Broadcasting took home a Golden Mic Merit Award for 'Public Service Campaign of the Year' for our promotion of the Relay for Life at Dartmouth this past spring. It was an exciting night and station leaders including Operations Manager Heath Cole, WFRD Program Director David Lumbert '12, News Director Madison Rezaei '12 and General Manager Schuyler 'Sketch' Evans '10 all traveled to Concord together for the ceremonies. The handsome is currently resting on the fireplace mantle in the business office of the Dartmouth Broadcasting studios.

Dartmouth Broadcasting spent the 2009 Halloween afternoon on the front lawn of Tri-Kap for the 3rd Annual Halloween Community Festival. It was a good time and we gave away a huge bowl full of candy to Upper Valley youth.


Shirine with her official 99Rock Tattoo

When you walk into the Dartmouth Broadcasting lobby, you will notice (hopefully) some of our archival photos on the wall. One of my favorites has to be the a picture of WDCR at the construction of the Bonfire in the late 1950's. It is reassuring to know that we are still being asked by the Bonfire Committee to come out to the Green during the construction of the bonfire and play music. Of course the safety standards standards have been raised quite a bit over the years; the Dartmouth Emergency Medical Services tent is sitting directly to the right of our tent.


By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager, Dartmouth Broadcasting

Dartmouth Broadcasting focused a great deal of attention and energy towards recruitment this fall. The first two weeks of the fall came as the fulfillment and expression of months of planning. The majority of our biggest recruitment events fell between Monday September 14th and September 25th. On September 14th we were on the Dartmouth Green playing music and giving away promotional vitamin water for Capture the Mellon which was essentially a gigantic game of capture the flag. Between 1-4 we gave away nearly 200 hand sized bottles of Vitamin water and countless CD's. This event, along with the Dartmouth College Athletic Department Open House BBQ on Friday September 19th and the Friday Night Out remote later that night served as our main auxiliary events leading to our Open House on September 20th. Our Open House was really successful and we had a great turnout of people who wanted to get involved with the station. Along with the vast majority of the Dartmouth Broadcasting leadership attending the Open House, we had a past GM, George Whitehead '61, Th '62 at our Open House. It was obvious by '13's reactions to George that they were impressed that someone was still passionate about DB over 50 years since their freshman orientation.

Recruitment and retention of students within the organization of course can present themselves as cumulative causation situations that feedback into themselves... either towards the positive or negative. Thankfully for Dartmouth Broadcasting, I think that we have positive momentum. This momentum that eventually translated into an explosion of recruitment this fall. We have recruited roughly 60 people over the course of the past six weeks. Of course all of these new people have to be trained and brought into the fold which has been a great deal of work as well.


The Directorate eating dinner before the rush of Freshman at the DCAD BBQ


By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager, Dartmouth Broadcasting

99Rock spent two days DJing at Fieldstock over the weekend of August 8th and 9th. Friday night DJ Chris Bp entertained a crowd of students competed in Coolaid Boat Races and balloon tosses. Then on Saturday, Chris BP and the rest of the Street Team spent their day on the Green between 1 and 6pm. Click on the video below to see BP dj.

99Rock's preeminent Homebrew Host, Social Director Phil Aubart '10 is off this term at Officer Candidate School. In his stead, Maia Pfeffer '11 along with her weekly show on WebDCR titled 'Truffle Shuffle' with Micky Teng '11 which has its own blog, truffleshuffleradio.blogspot.com, has taken over Homebrew each Sunday night on 99Rock between 8 and 10pm. She has been doing a great job this term ensuring that each Homebrew show has a half an hour interview with local artist. The thirty minutes is a mixture of dialogue and music from the various artists.



Maia with WazWarpt

99Rock spent two afternoons at the North Haverhill Fair on July 23rd and July 24th. On Thursday, Chris Garrett and General Manager Schuyler Evans '10 hosted aGuitar Hero Championship from 5 to about 10pm. The following day, there was a larger Street Team consisting of Zack Mason '10, WebDCR PD Shirine Sajjadi '11, Homebrew Host Maia Pfeffer '11, Chris Garrett and Sketch. Chris was set up at the remote by 5pm and the students came in a second car. The remote concluded when the Street Team introduced John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band at 8:30pm.



Maia hanging out at the Homebrew soda fountain. She hosts 99Rock's Homebrew every Sunday night from 8pm to 10pm.

We recently fired up the station camera and found some really interesting photos from the past few months...


Technical Director Tony Quincy '11 and General Manager Schuyler 'Sketch' Evans '10 saw Kevin James at a World Championship Fighting event we were attending... James' body guard did not want James to take the picture with Tony and Sketch but James allowed them to take the shot. So go see Mall Cop!



Tony posing with Rich Gannon, the Bostonian police officer who defeated Kimbo Slice in a bare knuckle fight. Mr. Gannon is currently one of the fighters in the new hit video game on X-Box 360, UFC UNDISPUTED.

Since DCR's transition from a terrestrial AM signal to a purely web based platform, we have been working a new logo for DCR that reflects that transition. All of our old logos showcased 1340 which has become irrelevant. Part of our update of DCR has been a transition away from WDCR, to either calling the station DCR or WebDCR. Our Internet Director Ricky Melgares '11 created this logo with the intent of it being stylish, modern, expanding our new WebDCR brand and also reinforcing that DCR is still Dartmouth College's Official college radio station. Differentiating between DCR and FRD has been a part of our larger goal; branding Dartmouth Broadcasting as a multi-faceted student run business that has educational components.
By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager, Dartmouth Broadcasting

The last few weeks have been a very exciting time for DCR from a technical standpoint. We have actually begun addressing problems with the WebDCR studio that have been present since at least the fall of '06. There have been several key factors that have lead to movement on the technical front. The first namely being two substantial equipment donations, the first being a Broadcast Audio console coming from Cox Radio (as secured by past GM Eric McDonald '04). Operations Heath Cole and General Manager Schuyler 'Sketch' Evans '10 drove down to Connecticut to pick up the board from Eric's stations and took a tour of his facilities. It was a very exciting and long day. On the way home Heath and Sketch were hit with perhaps the worst downpour coming up 91 that either of them had ever seen (One car did not make it and the front was all smashed in). The second being a very well maintained Auditronics board, in fact, the same model as the boards sitting in WebDCR and the FM Studio. George Whitehead Dartmouth '61, Thayer '62 was able to get us the Auditronics board from NHPR due to his close connections with that station. George has come up to the stations multiple times from his home across the state in order to trouble shoot and give WebDCR the tender loving care that it really needs. Not only has he been working on the studios, he has also been working with students and imparting valuable knowledge to such interested students as Technical Director Tony Quincy '11 and WebDCR Program Director Shirine Sajjadi '11.



George Whitehead showing Tony Quincy and Shirine Sajjadi a few things concerning repairing and maintaining consoles.


By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager, Dartmouth Broadcasting.

Dartmouth Broadcasting was fortunate enough to book President Wright for 30 minutes for a tour of the stations and an interview on our weekly public affairs show, The Weekly Debriefing. He came to the studios June 4th, before the transition to now President Kim. News Director Madison Rezaei '12 conducted the interview.


Here is General Manager Schuyler Evans '10 presenting President Wright with a commermorative WDCR 50th Anniversary Oxford.














President Wright checking out the 'jock lounge














President Wright interviewing with Madison for a portion of WFRD's weekly public affairs show, The Weekly Debriefing.




By Schuyler Evans '10
General Manager, Dartmouth Broadcasting