Radio on Video Recordings

Technology in the broadcasting world has been slowly improving every year. This year, UMD’s own radio station, WMUC, will be working with video broadcasts as well as the traditional audio broadcasts. Founder of WMUC’s KpopU, now known as KpopWeek, Daniel Kwon, has seen the use of YouTube videos used in social media and is starting a new trend of radio stations interviewing and raising awareness of music through videos, all while keeping the traditions of being a radio station a DJ.

He has been testing different software starting with the simple cell phone camera to the more complex and more expensive video cameras. With low funding, he has tried different ways to record interviews, such as an iPad. Kwon is on a mission to find the most efficient and financially sufficient camera for interviews (well, at least for the school radio station).

The following interviews are from Daniel Kwon, a radio DJ for WMUC and founder and representative for KpopWeek, a new company branching off of WMUC’s KpopU.