Media
The campus houses the KTIS and KTIS-FM radio stations, broadcasting contemporary Christian music and programming to the Twin Cities area. In addition to KTIS, which began broadcasting in 1949, Northwestern College owns and operates media outlets in 6 other cities: KFNW AM and KFNW-FM in Fargo, ND; KDNW and KDNI in Duluth, MN; WNWC-FM and AM in Madison, WI; KNWS-FM and AM in Waterloo, IA; KNWI and KNWM in Des Moines, IA; KNWC (AM), and KNWC-FM in Sioux Falls, SD.
Until July 2010, Northwestern College also owned WSMR in Sarasota, Florida; due to financial troubles, this station would close down and be sold to the University of South Florida, who reformatted the station with a classical music format. Also, in March 2012, Northwestern College sold KFNL in Fargo, North Dakota to Robert Ingstad's Mediactive, LCC, who would reformat the station with an active rock format.
The mission statement for Northwestern's media ministry is: "The purpose of Northwestern Media is to lead people to Christ and to nurture them in their spiritual growth through Christ Centered media!"
In addition to KTIS, Northwestern College operates a Campus radio station, WVOE, and a Student television station, NWC7. WVOE is a station that broadcasts on FM exclusively to the surrounding campus as well as a live Internet stream. In 2011, WVOE won its third straight College Radio Station of the Year award from the National Religious Broadcasters.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognises neither pity nor pitilessness.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)