BusRadio

We reported in December that Montgomery County Public Schools (MD) had terminated their experiment with BusRadio. It now appears that BusRadio remains in use in that school district. Here is an audio clip from the elementary school version of BusRadio last week.   AUDIO FILE: Driver from Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD Feb....
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  Here’s a disturbing audio clip from today’s BusRadio’s middle school show. In an effort to win herself up to $200 worth of American Express gift cards, the driver of Bus 79 in the Deer Park Independent School District (Texas) called into BusRadio. By calling BusRadio and giving her contact information, she is officially...
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  From Jim Metrock: The Independent School District of Angleton, TX has a driver that loves BusRadio. Then again he just might be "angling" to get some of that BusRadio cash. Below is an audio clip from the beginning of today’s high school version of BusRadio’s show. John from Bus 256 sounds like he...
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AND   The American School Bus Council is a relatively new organization created in 2006. It lobbies on behalf of several trade organizations and school bus manufacturers. The Council’s main members are NAPT (National Association for Pupil Transportation), NASDPTS (National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services), NSTA (National School Transportation Association), Blue...
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We mistakenly wrote yesterday that the Littleton Public School District in Colorado had brought back BusRadio to its buses. That was based on this announcement on yesterday’s middle school BusRadio program. AUDIO FILE BusRadio announced that the transportation director from "Littleton School District in Colorado" wanted give a "Shout Out" to her bus drivers....
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Here is BusRadio’s content for their High School afternoon program on Friday, January 31, 2009: As students get on the bus for the ride home they will hear these songs and advertisements in this order. The last student off the bus may hear all the songs from Akon to the Black Eyed Peas. All...
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This is a video on BusRadio’s web site. We believe Bryant James is the nerdy guy that was known as DJ Chickenwing on BusRadio. He looks like DJ Chickenwing and it is odd that Chickenwing has disappeared but now "Bryant James" is an "exclusive" artist on BusRadio. We have email Mr. James asking him...
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What first grader couldn’t use an extra $500?   BusRadio is currently running a contest aimed at their entire captive audience of bus riders from 18 years of age and younger. Students down to first graders are being asked to enter the Bryant James SUPERLOVE Valentine’s Day Giveaway. We kid you not. Elementary school...
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  DJ Lucia has left BusRadio. The Mat and Lucia Show is no more. Lucia has left the building. We have confirmation of Lucia Nxxxxxx’s departure from BusRadio. We don’t know what happened, but we knew she had not been on BusRadio’s broadcasts for weeks. Children still hear her voice on some old taped...
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1. Count the side windows. 2. Read this: In 2006, Education Week published an article about the BusRadio controversy ("School Bus Radio Venture Raises Safety, Commercialism Concerns"). After quoting BusRadio’s president saying his radio show will "soothe the beast on the bus" the article when on: "But one transportation official said encouraging radios on...
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