Music Committee Report for Annual General Meeting 13 Feb 00
Lauren Hughes, Music Committee Chair

As Chair of the Music Committee and assistant to Music Director, Jean 
Reno for the year of 1999, I checked a lot of email.  Most of it was 
promotional junkmail, some of it was junkmail of other varieties (some 
of which looked conspicuously like links to porn sites) and Jean got a 
lot of offers for free illegal cable hookups etc)  and a sizeable 
chunk of it concerned tracking and charts and the like, which Jean 
does not do, and his automated response explains this so I would say 
about 90% of all the emails were readily deletable.  The other 10% 
involved explaining to artists that there was no real procedure 
involved in sending CDs to Trent Radio, just mail them to the station 
and check the archives on the webpage in a month or so to make sure 
that we did indeed receive them. 

Over the summer, Chris Tonelli (Summer Co-ordinator) assisted in 
checking the email.  He save a lot of the form letters in the MAIL 
folder for contacts he used in getting promotional material for Trent 
Radio fundraisers.  Sometime in late fall the MAIL folder 
spontaneously ceased to exist (not sure why this happened) along with 
everything in it, but a new one was created . 

I had some ideas that I presented to the Board of Directors which I 
was not able to actualised.  One of these was a list of artists who 
had written saying they could make themselves available for and 
interview.  This list could be posted on the bulletin board outside 
Studio A so that programmers could peruse at their leisure.  The other 
was an addition to the Trent Radio website that contained links to 
various independent and smaller label music sites where programmers 
(or anyone  for that matter) could download MP3s and sample music the 
might not know existed otherwise. 

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