FCC Equal Opportunity Reports
WILL-AM-FM-TV
Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication
300 N. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-1070
EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT: A station may accumulate the relevant information for the past year (using previous Internal Job Vacancy Summary Form) and place a completed EEO Public File Report in the public inspection file annually on the anniversary of the deadline for filing its license renewal application.
FCC Equal Opportunity Report 8/1/05 - 7/31/06
EEO INTERNAL JOB VACANCY SUMMARY FORM
A. Full-Time Vacancy Filled
#1
Job Title: Television Broadcast Equipment Operator
Date Filled: June 4, 2006
#2
Job Title: General Manager/Director of Broadcasting, College of Communications
Date Filled: June 15, 2006
#3
Job Title: Broadcast Research Operations Specialist/News & Information Programming Ass’t
Date Filled: June 16, 2006
#4
Job Title: Broadcast Research Operations Specialist/FM Traffic Manager
Date Filled: June 17, 2006
B. Recruitment/Referral Sources
Source Contact Person Address Tel # Hired? Interv’ed?
Internal various WILL-AM-FM-TV 217-333-0850 2 2
300 N. Goodwin
Urbana, IL
Positions 2, 3, & 4 listed above here
(Martha Diehl hired as Broadcast Research Operations Specialist/News & Information Programming Ass’t)
(Dyanna Gregory hired as Broadcast Research Operations Specialist/FM Traffic Manager)
University of L. Denise Hendricks 52 E. Gregory 217-333-3101 1 2
Illinois Champaign, IL
Personnel Services *
Position 1 listed here only
(David Heckman hired as Television Broadcast Equipment Operator)
*Civil Service employees hired through University Personnel Office; must be tested and ranked on a register and names submitted in order from the register for interviewing.
Current Classified Ad 1612 K St. NW 202-463-7055 1 3
(Public broadcasting Suite 704
newspaper) Washington, DC 20006
Position 2 listed above here
(Mark Leonard hired as General Manager/Director of Broadcasting, College of Communications)
U of Illinois online listing
Employment Center
Positions 1 (notice of civil service test to be given listed), 2, 3, & 4 listed here
Broadcasting & Yuju Atsumi 646-746-6949
Cable
(Broadcasting magazine)
Position 2 listed above here
The News-Gazette Classified Ad 15 E. Main 217-351-5288
Champaign, IL 61820
Position 2 listed above here
Chicago Tribune Classified Ad 435 N. Michigan 312-222-2222
(includes Red-Eye Chicago, IL 60611
commuter newspaper,
Hoy Spanish newspaper,
& JobFinder magazine
Position 2 listed above here
Careerbuilder.com Chicago Tribune online posting
Position 2 listed above here
N’digo Chauncey Marshall 19 N. Sangamon 312-264-6265
Chicago, IL 60607 312-822-0288 (fax)
Position 2 listed above here
National Assoc Online listing 202-429-5498
of Broadcasters 202-721-8776 (fax)
Position 2 listed above here
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Jobline (CPB Jobline is a CPB system online service to stations. Announcement was posted there.)
Position 2 listed above here
National Public Radio
Direct Access
Communications System
(NPR DACS is an NPR system online service to stations. Announcement was posted there.)
Position 2 listed above here
PBS Connect
(PBS Connect is a PBS system online service to stations. Announcement was posted there.)
Position 2 listed above here
National Assoc Erinn Joyner 301-270-7100
Black Journalists
Position 2 listed above here
American Women in N/A online
Radio & TV
Position 2 listed above here
WILL Website Denise Perry WILL-AM-FM-TV 217-333-0850
300 N. Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
Position 2 listed above here
Public Radio in
Mid-America listserve
Position 2 listed above here
University of
Illinois Alumni listserve
Position 2 listed above here
Usenet newsgroups online posting
alt.radio.networks.npr (National NPR group)
chi.jobs (Chicago area jobs group)
cmi.jobs (Central Illinois jobs group)
cmi.media.will.announce (WILL-AM-FM-TV group)
cmi.media.announce (Central Illinois media group)
rec.radio.broadcasting (National commercial and non-commercial radio group)
rec.radio.noncomm (National non-commercial radio group)
uiuc.misc.jobs (University of Illinois jobs group)
Position 2 listed above here
C. Attachments
No organizations requested vacancy information.
Description of Supplemental Outreach Intiatives
Sponsorship of Community Event. On an on-going basis, the WILL Stations work with faculty at University High School in Urbana, Illinois to develop an oral history curriculum to train students, including minorities, in the basics of audio production and journalism. Each year, the students produce a documentary that is broadcast on WILL Radio, and a few have chosen to major in journalism at the college level.
Sponsorship of Community Event. The WILL Stations have developed a community outreach initiative, designed specifically to reach young minorities, with assistance from a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois. Dr. Will Patterson is co-director of the project with WILL’s Kimberlie Kranich. The Youth Media Workshop is a collaboration between public radio station, WILL-AM 580, and Innovative Ed. Consulting, Inc., an educational programming, multimedia marketing and action research company. The workshop partners with public schools in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois to teach African-American youth how to make radio and television documentaries that link their generation, the hip-hop generation, to the civil rights and black power generations. Middle school age female minority students put together a radio documentary each year. The students learn about basic audio production and receive instruction in newswriting from WILL’s professional staff. (Audio access to the most recent production is available at: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/FranklinSite05/index.html.
African-American male students from Urbana High School are working with WILL-TV and the Youth Media Workshop on a video production.
Establishment of Training Program. Station WILL-TV hires minority trainees, with little or no experience in television production, and teaches them the rudiments of camera operation and studio production. The young people involved in this program are provided with skills that can qualify them for higher level, full-time, positions in broadcasting.
