{"id":3226,"date":"2022-04-20T01:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:04:43","slug":"the-edge-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/2022\/04\/20\/the-edge-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Edge is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at Bradley University have brought The Edge<\/a> back from the brink of death.\u00a0 The enduring campus radio station has now been revitalized as a podcast studio for students interested in the digital audio realm.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Edge was founded in 1989<\/a> by students wanting a student-led organization that did not have to go through the official campus station.\u00a0 Over time, the popularity of the club has grown and shrunk.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Lennie, the faculty advisor for The Edge, worked at the station when he was a student at Bradley.\u00a0 He says it has been difficult keeping The Edge alive over the past few years because of a lack of interest in taking over the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever a student has taken it over, especially if it\u2019s a senior, I always tell them at the outset that your number one priority is you have to find a successor,\u201d Lennie said.\u00a0 \u201cA few years ago, I had a student who passed it on to someone who ended up being kind of a flake and she was only a junior, but she ended up doing nothing with it.\u00a0 So, it never started, and then I had a freshman come into my office and say, \u2018I am interested in doing radio stuff\u2019, and I said, \u2018Boy do I have a deal for you\u2019.\u00a0 So, we talked about it, and he basically took it over and he did it for four years with some varying results.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another successor was not named after that student\u2019s tenure.\u00a0 Lennie had no idea what to do with the studio space and was ready to let student activities give it to other organizations potentially interested in audio related ventures.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then in walks Ben,\u201d Lennie said, \u201cand Ben came and wanted to do podcasting<\/a> and I was like, \u2018I have the deal for you.\u2019\u00a0 So, I gave him the whole thing and he\u2019s been doing great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben was interested in starting a podcast about cybersecurity and privacy.\u00a0 Despite having his own equipment, he decided to see what the university had to offer first.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI knew we used to have a campus radio station and I just didn\u2019t know who was running it or if it was active at all,\u201d Ben said.\u00a0 \u201cI found out through the activities office that the club was inactive, which means there weren\u2019t any executives or members maintaining the organization.\u00a0 So that\u2019s when I stepped up and offered to try to revitalize The Edge and maybe do my podcast here in this studio and turn this into a podcasting space for students because I don\u2019t think many students knew about The Edge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben brought on another student, Dennise Collins, as the vice president for the club.\u00a0 She was attracted to the idea of podcasting and doing voice over work and so found this to be a great opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a good way to kind of start practicing and getting used to it and seeing if it is something I want to do in the long term,\u201d Collins said.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s what got me drawn to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s really fun<\/a> helping Ben and Dave get it setup and just learning how podcasts work essentially.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben is focused on rebuilding The Edge and curating new membership for the organization.\u00a0 \u201cOver the years The Edge\u2019s popularity has dwindled,\u201d Ben said.\u00a0 \u201cThat has to do with just how people are consuming media now, it\u2019s more on-demand.\u00a0 This studio is made for live.\u00a0 So, we\u2019re trying to retask ourselves to do more podcasts.\u00a0 So, if a student or organization has an idea, they can come to us, and we will help you get started here in the studio and we will be able to distribute it on our platform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Collins is hopeful for the future of The Edge.\u00a0 \u201cI think it will be long term because we have a lot of people who are interested and a lot of people do listen to podcasts and such, so it\u2019s nice having something your peers create,\u201d Collins said.\u00a0 \u201cIt is going to reach out to them, and it\u2019s a good way for people to have all kinds of involvement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben has generated a lot of interest, making sure to hit up all of the activity fairs<\/a>.\u00a0 Tons of people who want to be involved and have their own shows have signed up to join.\u00a0 For now, it looks like The Edge is back into the swing of things.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students at Bradley University have brought The Edge back from the brink of death.\u00a0 The enduring campus radio station has now been revitalized as a podcast studio for students interested in the digital audio realm. The Edge was founded in 1989 by students wanting a student-led organization that did not have to go through the official campus station.\u00a0 Over time, the popularity of the club has grown and shrunk. David Lennie, the faculty advisor for The Edge, worked at the station when he was a student at Bradley.\u00a0 He says it has been difficult keeping The Edge alive over the past few years because of a lack of interest in taking over the organization. \u201cWhenever a student has taken it over, especially if it\u2019s a senior, I always tell them at the outset that your number one priority is you have to find a successor,\u201d Lennie said.\u00a0 \u201cA few years ago, I had a student who passed it on to someone who ended up being kind of a flake and she was only a junior, but she ended up doing nothing with it.\u00a0 So, it never started, and then I had a freshman come into my office and say, \u2018I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[249,342,341],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-campus","tag-bucom360","tag-podcast","tag-theedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}