CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDIA ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Slope Radio launches live call-in show “Around the Slope” Monday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.

  • WHAT: Live program: “Around the Slope” launch on Slope Radio
  • WHEN: Monday Feb. 4, 7-8 p.m.
  • WHERE: Slope Radio, online at http://SlopeRadio.com
  • NOTE: Media running items about the program are asked to include the Slope Radio’s IP address (above) and the number for call-in guests: (607) 821-2522. For more information, contact the Cornell Press Relations Office at (607) 254-6236 or (607) 255-6074.

ITHACA, N.Y. — Slope Radio, a student online radio station for the Cornell University community, will launch a new live call-in show “Around the Slope,” Monday, Feb. 4, from 7 to 8 p.m. The premiere show will feature a discussion among in-studio and call-in guests about issues in higher education and their relationship to the current primary elections and candidates. Guests will include Cornell Vice President for University Communications Tommy Bruce and representatives from the Cornell Democrats, Cornell Republicans, the Cornell Daily Sun and Slope Media. The dialog will follow an introduction to the show itself and topics planned for the upcoming semester, as well as an overview of news headlines.

“Around the Slope” is co-produced with the Cornell Daily Sun and co-hosted by Slope Media’s outgoing president and founder, Yaw Este, and the Cornell Daily Sun’s Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Lieberman.

About Slope Radio:
Slope Radio launched Sept. 4, 2007. The service, which is open to anyone in the Cornell community, broadcasts online at http://SlopeRadio.com 24 hours a day, with a variety of live shows offered between 4 p.m. and 2 a.m. from a studio in Willard Straight Hall. Live programming includes music, news, comedy, interviews with performers coming to Ithaca and talk shows on topics from sports to sex. The rest of the day, an automated computer program plays music, including hip-hop, reggae and indie rock.

Contact: Nicola Pytell
Phone: (607) 254-6236
Cell: (607) 351-3548
nwp2@cornell.edu

Source: http://pressoffice.cornell.edu/Feb08/around.slope.adv.shtml

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