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the The Weber Signpost State would University like The Signpost a community to go beyond the daily grind of school, work and home with a FriBeyond The the Weekend Upbeat. This week-long edition and the community. day edition geared togive updates on what's ward entertainment and going on around campus comes out each Friday to rind January 12-18, 2001 Vol. 4, Issue 14 MUSIC TO KWCR has a new morning geared toward college By Lisa Roskelley editor in chief The Signpost Kleenex Girl Wonder, Brassy and Self are in and Robbie Williams, LL Cool and Ricky Martin are out for Weber State University's student-run radio station, KWCR 88.1 "The Edge." Manifesting its new format for the new year, the station management has decided that rap is out and progressive independent rock is in. "If you break out to the independent labels you get a fresher sound.

Our goal is to play 80 percent indy music." said AnDrew Tyler, station general manager. "We're looking for a more collegebased audience." The new show As part of the new sound, the station has added a daily morning show Monday through Friday, the Cory, Mari, Jimmy Show. WSU students Cory Duclos, 19, Mari Robertson, 20, and Jimmy Francks, 21, make up the trio for the 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. morning show.

The show is in- OPEN show, featuring students commuting tended to help the new format and develop personalities that are consistently on every morning for listeners to look for. "We're the show that defines the station," Francks said. Filled with witty banter among the three co-hosts, daily doses of the quote of the day by Corey and the word of the day by Jimmy, news, weather, and sports, the three-hour show is directed at college students getting ready for and commuting to WSU. "Morning shows are the staples of radio stations," Tyler said. "Ours has been lacking or missing for quite a few years." Launching Jan.

1, along with the new format, the show is now two-weeks strong and preparing for a booked third week. The CMJ Show, which is sometimes referred to on air as the College Mumbo Jumbos, has a full lineup for Tuesday, bringing the band Honeyspot from California into the studio before they play at the Jackson St. Junction that night. The trio will also be giving away a remote control car starter Friday. Also on Wednesdays, they play all requests for their three-hour blocks and will have guest hosts on to liven things up in the middle of the week.

Different stints like waking someone up at 6:10 a.m. after a listener has suggested him or her give the show more interaction with the listeners. They'll call that person, wake them up and give THE CMJ SHOW The CMJ Show airs Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. 'til 9 a.m on WSU's student run radio station KWCR 88.7 YOUR the new sound, to campus them a chance to answer random trivia for a prize. However, while most morning shows are known for lots of talk and less music, the CMJ Show plays music on the five, giving listeners more of the new format every ten minutes.

Duclos and Francks began talking in the middle of last semester and slowly developed ideas. Then they asked Robertson to join the group and she got the idea rolling through the appropriate path and up to Tyler. "We wanted a girl to mix things up, so we asked Mari," Francks said. "And Mari dominated, it took her one day to put a proposal together of stuff I'd been talking about for months." And the proposal was successful. "I was really impressed with Mari and how she's pulled off the local show," Tyler said.

"I knew that Mari would work really hard to pull the morning show off." All three being experienced disc jockeys with KWCR, they had each developed their own on-air personalities to bring to the show. "By golly, we're three great personalities and three great personalities makes one great show," Francks said. Duclos hosts several shows a week, Tyler named him as one of his most dedicated DJs. Robertson hosts a local bands show on Wednesday nights, The Local Landing. Francks, in addition to being a programmer for KLO radio, does various shows and programming, including sports for KWCR.

In addition to those personalities they also have "the dick, the doll and the dork" theory that the trio also fits into. "Cory's the goof, the funny one," Mari said. This translates into being the dork. Mari fits the doll role and Jimmy takes the dick roll at least most of the time, unless Tyler guest-hosts the show. "When I get there I get to be the dick and Jimmy is the dork," Tyler said.

The new sound "The morning is the best time for Robertson said. Once listeners get into a groove and find out how much our students work at what they do, they'll appreciate the station and the music." The new sound the station is promoting has come after much research and effort from the students at the station, much like what happened in the see MUSIC page 2 MIND STATE CORY MAR JIMMY Cory Duclos, Mari Robertson and Jimmy Francks make up the CMJ Show..