Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM

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  • Location: Austin, Texas

Hey, we're Youth Spin. Youth Spin is a group of high school students who all love to produce good youth radio! Our show is crewed by teens, high-school age and under, and we broadcast in Austin, Texas on 91.7 FM KOOP (and we stream online through koop.org), on Fridays from 6-7pm every week. Youth Spin is a nationally recognized youth radio program run under the auspices of KOOP radio and the Griffin School. High School students from all over Austin and the surrounding area have taken part in this unique, radio program. Our pieces are varied: they range from collages of several short pieces to long features to commentaries, series, and interviews. We enjoy all types of writing for radio, though we also enjoy playing some of our favorite songs in between pieces. We hope you like our pieces and we hope you all enjoy hearing the news from a teen perspective. :)

Series

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4 Pieces

Join Makalah in her quests in her mini Summer series for Youth Spin! She announces various informational topics from music, health, fashion, social media, "Boredom Prevention" and MUCH more.

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12 Pieces

A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves together fun, drama, entertainment all in one short package of personal, teen story-telling.

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6 Pieces

The Bookmark is a new series by our new Spinner, Makalah. The Bookmark focuses on the literary world, from author interviews to book reviews.

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3 Pieces

A story of intrigue, deception, and murder most foul. Welcome, dear listener... to the Sanguine Script!

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Female athletes who are changing the views of the women's wrestling

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3 Pieces

Each week, spinner Perry finds the strangest happenings to report to listeners.

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As part of the Youth Spin Summer Workshop series the teens of Youth Spin looked deep into the inner workings of four youth related organizations in Austin. Talking with members, board participants, directors, and youth involved, the Youth Spin discovered what each organization had to offer.


Pieces

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In the third installment of Connor's series reviewing The Cure's discography, he talks about 1981's Faith.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:27
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In the second installment of Connor's series reviewing The Cure's discography, he talks about 1980's Seventeen Seconds.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:49
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In the first installment of Connor's series reviewing The Cure's discography, he talks about their first album, 1979's Three Imaginary Boys.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
Caption: Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar at the White House, Credit: Top Dawg Entertainment
The second in a two-part series on how Obama interacted with popular music and how popular music responded to the Obama years. This part talks abou...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 07:20
Caption: Barack Obama and Ludacris, meeting in 2006 in Chicago, Credit: Charles Rex Arbogast, AP
The first in a two-part series on how Obama interacted with popular music and how popular music responded to the Obama years. This part goes throug...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 12:07
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In this piece, Connor counts down his 20 favorite albums released in 2016, with his three favorite songs on each.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 05:10
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Joey talks with Eric Dingus, a 19-year-old producer from Austin, TX, for artists including Dowrong and Drake.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:28
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Roald Dahl is a famous children's author with such a deep and interesting story. Aubry takes you on a short journey through his life with this grea...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:57
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The "Battle of the Sexes" was one of the biggest sporting events in history. Billie Jean King went up against a man in a tennis match for the ages....

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:19
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Makalah talks about her experience at ACL last year. She spoke with Tim from Tim and The Space Cadets with Mother Falcon, Shake from veteran busine...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 04:35