The High School Radio Project introduces careers in radio and audio to high school students through real-world application via online streaming radio stations.
See what’s being said about the HSRP:
HSRP Press Release from NE Broadcasters and MA Broadcasters Associations
Two Millard West seniors pilot HSRP through the summer
While school is out for the summer, many students spend their time working, traveling or just staying home. This was the case for a majority of the school except for two seniors who dedicated their time to running Millard West’s one of a kind radio station, The Uproar.
Since January, Millard West was the first school in the nation to pilot the High School Radio Project in partnership with the Nebraska Broadcasters Association. For the first few months, the crew that ran the station was very small in number, but put forth the best product they could until summer came around. Seniors Logan Moseley and Nathan Delaney wanted to keep the station new and refreshed over the summer, so they devised a plan to keep everything up to date.
New Program Nourishes High-School Interest in Radio
(Radio World) - It’s no secret that the percentage of young people who listen to radio has been on the decline for a decade or more. And while surveys repeatedly show that teens listen to music for at least two hours a day, they no longer tend to listen on terrestrial radio unless they’re in the car with their parents.
So in a world ruled by YouTube, iTunes and Spotify, can teens learn to believe that radio is kind of cool after all?
That was the challenge Jim Timm, president and executive director of the Omaha-based Nebraska Broadcasters Association, decided to take on. He and members of NBA’s board of directors wanted to nurture the next generation of broadcasters. But how?
Timm recalled that the association had conducted a media camp for high school students and that radio was one of the options. He remembered that the students resisted — “Radio’s lame; nobody cares about it,” one said — but that once they started broadcasting, they had so much fun that it changed their perception.
Timm believed this experience could be replicated. He envisioned a project in which high schools could offer students the opportunity to learn how to broadcast via online streaming.
The idea was to partner with local schools to create stations on which students would choose and announce the songs, record news and sports features, and be heard by a potential audience all over the country. The stations would use automation but could go live in certain circumstances. The state association would lend the gear and software to a school; after students’ time with the project ended, the school would ship the gear to the next participating school.
In 2021 Timm ran the idea past Jordan Walton, executive director of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, whom he’d met through the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations. “I’ve known him for nine years,” Timm says, “and I respect his opinion.”
Walton liked the idea and wanted to collaborate. “So many students today are not even aware of broadcasting,” Walton says. “We want them to see how much fun doing radio can be. Maybe a few of them will [decide] to be involved with media, where they weren’t before.”
Thus the initiative became a joint project of two state associations. Timm and Walton began meeting weekly via Zoom. Their work developed into the High School Radio Project.
“You’re listening to The High School Radio project, live from Millard West High School.”
The Nebraska Broadcasters Association has provided the equipment needed to host a live radio broadcast, which allows students to get a look into the world on how a real radio station operates ,along with giving students a hands-on experience with the equipment, and puts them in a real radio station environment. Some of the things that include simulating a real radio station environment, is when the students log into MusicMaster with their account, select the types of music and genres to schedule to the queue, and put the voice overs in between songs.
Watertown Cable News story on HSRP - MA at Watertown H.S.
Statewide group helping Westfield Technical Academy start all-day radio station
(MassLive) WESTFIELD — Westfield Technical Academy media students are getting a jump start into future broadcasting careers thanks to the Massachusetts Broadcasting Association, which has selected the school as its High School Radio Project station.
Steven Forni, broadcast media instructor, said WTA will now be only one of two high schools in the country involved in this kind of project. The new station will be called WTA Radio.
