ENCO’s DADPro 32 automated broadcast system is installed in WBFH on-air and production studios, replacing Arrakis DigiLink and Trak-Star systems.

WBFH broadcasts from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland!

Anyone who has attended high school would know, field trips are among the most-welcomed diversions of the school year. It’s the chance to leave the books and lectures behind to experience the world first-hand. Some students go to museums, some to science centers; others to concerts and the like. When WBFH goes on a field trip, things go differently. Not being content to take the staffers out of state for just any field trip, Pete Bowers and Randy Carr took this year’s group to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. The purpose? To see the sites and do a little broadcasting.

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Spring Celebration 2002

The 26th edition of Spring Celebration saw the unique presentation of local rock band REV in cooperation with the Lahser chapter of Students Against Smoking and SADD. Two local bands opened for that one, including Nate Bender’s and Kevin Baird’s band, Absent Without Leave.

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Dream Cruise 2002

It’s the official start of the new broadcast year. WBFH sets up on the corner of Square Lake and Woodward Avenue to bring its listeners a high-school-point-of-view on what has become the largest gathering of classic automobiles in the midwest.

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WBFH Gains A New Studio!

After 26 years of patiently waiting for much-needed space, WBFH Management welcomed its brand-new Studio A on Thursday, January 23, 2003.

The new studio layout offers much more space for interviews, as well as a giant picture window to accompany a studio audience outdoors.

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Open House for Studio A...

Wednesday, March 12th, 2003

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The new Studio A was a breath of fresh air as the staff had more room from which to work. Click here for the article.

Streaming WBFH Audio

Pete Bowers attends a session at the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System’s national convention in New York City on March 15 and decides to return to streaming The Biff to the world. WBFH chooses Live365.com as its web stream provider.

Spring Celebration 2003

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The Biff Buzz
(or news about the Radio Station)

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All ten WBFH sStaff students and the three WBFH managers recently attended the annual conference of the Michigan Association of Educational Broadcasters called the Share-a-thon. The conference was held November 12 at the Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn. The M.A.E.B. is made up of high school and college radio stations in Michigan. Other member stations attending this year included Plymouth, Novi, Southfield, Avondale, Warren, and Kalamazoo.

The conference started with a tour of the WHFR radio studios. After lunch, each school gave a short presentation about their radio station. WBFH Operations Manager Robyn Berkowitz and AOM/Music Director Marissa Boyajian gave the Biff presentation highlighted by a video about the station done by Daniel Muskovitz. After several small group sessions, the students moved to the auditorium to hear a panel of speakers including Detroit Tigers Announcer Dan Dickerson, Metro Traffic Reporter Rhonda Hart, Air Personality Gerald McBride, and WWJ Assistant News Director Rob Davidek.

Before going to the conference, the staff went to the Fisher Building to tour two radio stations, WDRQ 93.1 and WDVD 96.3. The students were able to see where Jay Towers does his morning show and got to do a live shout-out over the air. They also got a close-up look at WDRQ’s state-of-the-art production studio.

Other WBFH students attending the conference where Stephanie Krawiec, Marcellus Long, Brad Lutz, Ben Raphelson, Alex Rusciano, Kristin Sparschu, and Roy Wibel. Biff managers attending were Pete Bowers, Randy Carr and Ron Wittebols.

Eleven WBFH Students Win 21 State Broadcasting Awards
from the Michigan Association of Educational Broadcasters

Bloomfield Hills—Eleven radio broadcasting students from WBFH won 21 individual state broadcasting awards from the Michigan Association of Educational Broadcasters (M.A.E.B.) at their annual Honors Ceremony held April 7, 2004 at Canton High School in Canton, Michigan. WBFH, also known as "the Biff", is licensed to the Bloomfield Hills School District and is operated by students from Andover and Lahser High Schools.

The M.A.E.B. is an organization made up of high school and college radio stations from around the state and one vocational broadcasting school. They presented 81 individual awards to student broadcasters from member schools. The guest speaker was Mike Stern, the program director for Q101 in Chicago. Stern started his broadcasting career in high school at WOVI, Novi High School. He went on to work at Michigan State University's WDBM. Stern is known for pioneering the hard rock format and has programmed stations in Milwaukee, Denver, Detroit, and Las Vegas.

WBFH students won more awards than any other M.A.E.B. member school. The following is a list of WBFH students who won individual awards at the Honors Ceremony. The awards are given to the student's level of performance: Gold Microphone, Silver Microphone, and Bronze Microphone.

The Biff Buzz
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Bloomfield Hills’community radio station, The Biff, started the school year off with another live broadcast from the Woodward Dream Cruise on August 21st. This year the station was broadcasting in front of Bennigan’s at the corner of Square Lake Road and Woodward Avenue, the former site of the famed Ted’s restaurant. Nine WBFH staff students took turns interviewing “cruisers” in their cars as they burned rubber in front of the Biff broadcast booth. Those participating in the broadcast this year were Valenta Bedford, Stephen Curtis, Matt Dlugokinski, Ryan Fishman, Erin Kashawlic, Marco Myerson, Jake Neher, Kristin Sparschu and George Tunis. Playing the oldies and engineering the remote broadcast were the WBFH management team of Pete Bowers, Randy Carr and Ron Wittebols.

WBFH tied for the High School Station of the Year from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation last March. This fall there are 14 WBFH staff students and 35 Fundamentals of Radio Broadcasting students. Other staff students not previously mentioned include Nick Gallick, Brent Hatchett, Miles Roquemore, Antoine Terrell and Roy Wibel.

You can hear Oakland County’s best music variety twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week at 88.1 on your FM dial. You can also hear The Biff online through its website, www.wbfh.fm. Click on the radio icon on the website homepage and listeners will be immediately directed to their live broadcast. Song requests can be made by calling the station (248) 341-WBFH or through Instant Messenger (screen name WBFH881).

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Alex Rusciano (Andover ’03) in Birmingham Eccentric

OBSERVER & ECCENTRIC Thursday, February 3 2005 (B) A5

‘Somewhere in Time’ goes metro-wide

Detroit News item from Wednesday, May 18, 2005:

Schools & Education
BLOOMFIELD HILLS

“Lahser and Andover high Schools raised $2,875 during last month’s 29th annual Bifstock 24-hour fund-raiser. The money will help underwrite radio station operating costs for the Bloomfield Hills School District radio station, WBFH. The station is run by students at Lahser and Andover.”

WBFH broadcasts from the Woodward Dream Cruise.

WBFH students win nine John Drury High School Radio Awards at the 4th annual event held on the campus of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. WBFH wins 1st Place, Best High School Radio Station in this national competition. Bowers takes home Best Radio Station Advisor. Bowers, Ryan Fishman and Eric Bowers travel to Naperville, Illinois to collect the awards.

The awards, named in honor of legendary award-winning ABC-Chicago News Anchor John Drury, were created to recognize excellence in high school radio broadcasting. The awards were presented by North Central College and their student radio station WONC-FM.

WBFH students were nominated for fourteen awards, the most of any high school entering this national competition. WBFH students won three 1st Place awards, two 2nd Place awards and four 3rd Place awards:

Station Manager Pete Bowers was nominated for Best Radio Station Advisor and won 1st Place. The award was based on a 500-word essay and three supporting letters.

The Best High School Radio Station award was based on the number of awards won by students from high school radio stations in the United States. WBFH won 1st Place this year after taking 3rd Place last year. WGBK of Glenview, Illinois took 2nd Place.

"This was the second year we sent entries to the John Drury Awards," said Bowers. "I'm very proud of the students who won and for WBFH finishing first for Best High School Radio Station."

Andover senior and WBFH Operations Manager Ryan Fishman won a total of five Drury awards and made the trip to Naperville to accept his awards. "It was definitely worth the trip", said Fishman.

WBFH is featured in an article in the Detroit News: "Andover Rises to Top On The Air". "The Bloomfield Hills high school station is No. 1 in the nation, with the staff and students netting awards".

Students and staff host an open house to show visitors the new Logitek digital board and the new Optimod 8500 broadcast audio processor. This gave WBFH a nice, fat sound.

2006 North-American
International Auto Show

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Scoring admittance to a prestigious event such as the North American International Auto Show is quite the accomplishment. Sure, members of the working media usually make the invite list, but a high school radio station? Forget about it. They’re just kids, right? Well, no. Not, Ryan Fishman and Wade Fink; they’re the most aggressive members on staff and when they want to cover an event for their listeners, they get motivated.

Fishman and Fink made the appropriate phone calls to the NAIAS media department hoping to gain permission to cover the event from the floor of Cobo Hall; and they did! It was the first time The Biff had ever received media passes for a Detroit tradition.

Fishman and Fink interviewed Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Aretha Franklin and 2005 Miss Michigan Octavia Reese.

More importantly, the boys proudly represented The Biff and gained valuable experience as ambassadors for high school radio.

Have a listen:

Ryan Fishman, Wade Fink, and Pete Bowers represent The Biff at the Legends for Charity luncheon as part of Super Bowl XL festivities at the Marriott Detroit Renaissance Center. They get interviews with broadcasters James Brown, Pat Summerall, Chris Collinsworth and Coach Tony Dungy.

Lansing, Michigan-Bloomfield Hills School District radio broadcasting students won six first place awards, five second place awards and five third place awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB) at their annual conference held Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at the Lansing Center. The MAB received 527 entries from 34 schools for their annual High School and College Broadcast Awards competition. WBFH students won 16 of the 25 awards given out in the high school radio division, including first place in six of the eight categories.

Due to the number of awards won by WBFH students, WBFH was named the 2006 MAB High School Station of the Year and received a gold record award from BMI. This was the fourth year in a row that WBFH won or tied for MAB Station of the Year. Station Manager Pete Bowers and Assistant Manager/Chief Engineer Randy Carr accepted the Station of the Year Award on behalf of their award-winning students. WBFH Operations Manager Ryan Fishman was pleased with the performance of the Biff students this year compared to last year: "We won three more total awards and one more 1st Place this year which is impressive." Motivational speaker Ronald Bachman gave the keynote address at the awards luncheon.

Spring Celebration 2006

Click here for the SCORE! Community Student & Athlete article.

Click here for the Detroit Free Press article.

Click here for the SCORE! Community Student & Athlete article.

Click here for The Oakland Press article.

School Board Recognizes BHSD Radio Students Who Won 27 Total State Broadcasting Awards from Two State Broadcasting Associations

Biff Broadcasters Top All High School Broadcasters in Michigan for the Fifth Year in a Row

Bloomfield Hills School District radio broadcasting students won more state broadcasting awards from two different state broadcasting associations than any other school in Michigan. The students broadcast on the district’s FM radio station WBFH, also known as “The Biff”.

The first competition was sponsored by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB). WBFH students won three first place awards, one second place award and four third place awards at their annual conference held March 14, 2007 at the Lansing Center.

The MAB received 525 entries from 30 schools for their annual High School and College Broadcast Awards competition. WBFH students won nine of the 20 awards given out in the high school radio division, the most by any high school in the state for the fifth year in a row.

The second competition was sponsored by the Michigan Association of Educational Broadcasters (MAEB), a group of high school and college broadcasters from around the state. Fourteen Biff students won a total of 19 awards, again the most by any high school in Michigan. Those awards were presented at MAEB’s Honors Night held at Novi High School April 25, 2007.

The following is a list of WBFH students who won state broadcasting awards this year:

Andover senior Kevin Qian won four awards: 3 rd Place, Promotional Announcement (MAB); Gold, Production (with Mike Tully) (MAEB); Silver, DJ Aircheck (with Mike Tully) (MAEB); Bronze, Interview (MAEB).

Andover senior Wade Fink won four awards: 2 nd Place, Talk Show (MAB); 3 rd Place, Sports Play-by-Play (MAB); Gold, Sports Play-by-Play (MAEB); Silver, Newscast (MAEB).

Andover junior Corey Berkowitz won six awards: 1 st Place, DJ Aircheck (MAB); 3 rd Place, Talk Show (with Evan Schuster) (MAB); Gold, DJ Aircheck (MAEB); Gold, Interview (MAEB); Gold, Production (MAEB); Gold, Newscast (MAEB).

Andover junior Andrew Blumberg won four awards: 1 st Place, Public Service Announcement (with Jaclyn Talon) (MAB); 1 st Place, Newscast (MAB); Silver, Production (MAEB); Bronze, Newscast (MAEB).

Lahser junior Mike Tully won three awards: 3 rd Place, Promotional Announcement (with Kevin Qian) (MAB); Gold, Production (with Kevin Qian) (MAEB); Silver, DJ Aircheck (with Kevin Qian) (MAEB).

Andover junior Jaclyn Talon won three awards: 1 st Place, Newscast (MAB); 1 st Place, Public Service Announcement (with Andrew Blumberg) (MAB); Silver, Production (with Keifer Wells) (MAEB).

Andover junior Evan Schuster won three awards: 3 rd Place, Talk Show (with Corey Berkowitz) (MAB); 3 rd Place, MHSAA Sports PSA (MAB); Gold, Interview (MAEB).

Andover junior Henry Edelman won two awards: Silver, Newscast (MAEB); Silver, Production (MAEB).

Andover junior Greg Seraydarian won one award: Silver, Play-by-Play (MAEB).

Andover junior Keifer Wells won one award: Silver, Production (with Jaclyn Talon) (MAEB).

Lahser senior J.D. Gurganus won one award: Bronze, Interview (MAEB).

Lahser junior Eric Bowers won one award: Bronze, Production (with Jon Miller) (MAEB).

Lahser junior Jon Miller won one award: Bronze, Production (with Eric Bowers) (MAEB).

Andover sophomore Billy Whiting won one award: Bronze, Play-by-Play (MAEB).

It’s been a very good year for Biff broadcasters. In March, WBFH students won 17 awards in a national competition and won 1 st Place, Best High School Station in the John Drury High School Radio Awards. Station Manager Pete Bowers, Assistant Manager/Chief Engineer Randy Carr, Remote Supervisor Ronald Wittebols and Corey Berkowitz accepted the top award at the ceremony held March 3, 2007 at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Fink is graduating having won nine national and 11 state awards for a career total of 20 awards, second most in Biff history. His nine national awards are the most ever won by a WBFH radio student. Qian was WBFH’s Operations Manager this year and won a career total of seven state broadcasting awards.

Qian was pleased with the performance of the Biff students this year in national and state competitions: “It

was great to finish off my senior year being number one in the nation and number one in the state”.

Award-winning radio students were recognized by the Board of Education at their regular meeting June 7, 2007.

The Detroit Free Press ran a feature story on the award-winning WBFH staff.

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WBFH Radio Students Win Eight State Broadcasting Awards from Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB)

WBFH Named 2008 MAB High School Station of the Year

Bloomfield Hills School District radio broadcasting students won two first place awards, four second place awards and two third place awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters (MAB) at their annual conference held Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids.

The MAB received 431 entries from 33 schools for their annual High School and College Broadcasting Awards competition. WBFH students won eight of the 22 awards given out in the high school radio division. Due to the number of awards won by WBFH students, WBFH was named the 2008 MAB High School Station of the Year and received a gold record award from BMI. This was the fifth year out of the last six years that WBFH won or tied for MAB Station of the Year.

Andover senior Evan Schuster won three awards: 2 nd Place, MHSAA Sports PSA; 2 nd Place (tie), Promotional Announcement; 3 rd Place, Public Service Announcement.

Andover senior Corey Berkowitz won two first place awards: 1 st Place, Talk Show; 1 st Place, Promotional Announcement.

Andover senior Nick Shlain won two awards: 2 nd Place, MHSAA Sports PSA; 2 nd Place (tie), Promotional Announcement.

Andover senior Andrew Blumberg won one award: 2 nd Place, Station Activities Report.

Andover junior Billy Whiting won one award: 2 nd Place, Sports Play-by-Play.

Lahser senior Jonathan Miller won one award: 3 rd Place, Promotional Announcement.

Andover senior Lloyd Praedel won one award: 2 nd Place (tie), Promotional Announcement.

The WBFH management team of Station Manager Pete Bowers, Assistant Manager/Chief Engineer Randy Carr and Remote Supervisor Ronald Wittebols accepted the Station of the Year Award on behalf of theiraward–winning students.

Berkowitz also won a first and third place award last year: “It’s great to be recognized for our work and I congratulate all the other winners from our station and from other schools in the state.”

BHSD Radio Students Win Eight Awards in Nationwide High School Radio Competition

WBFH Ties for Best High School Radio Station in the Nation for 3rd Year in a Row

Naperville , Illinois— Bloomfield Hills School District radio broadcasting students won a total of eight awards in eight categories at the Sixth Annual John Drury High School Radio Awards ceremony held April 26, 2008 on the campus of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Based on the number of award winners, WBFH tied for 1 st Place, Best High School Station with WLTL located in LaGrange, Illinois. It was the third year in a row that WBFH had won or tied for Best High School Station.

The John Drury High School Radio Awards were created to recognize excellence in high school radio broadcasting. These awards were named in honor of award-winning ABC-Chicago news anchor, John Drury. The awards were presented by North Central College and their student radio station WONC-FM.

Ten WBFH students were nominated for 14 awards, the most of any high school entering this national competition. WBFH students won three 1 st Place awards; one 2 nd Place award and four 3 rd Place awards:

Best Newscast, 1 st Place: Jaclyn Talon, Andover senior

Best Promo, 1 st Place: Corey Berkowitz, Andover senior

Best Public Service Announcement, 1 st Place: Evan Schuster, Andover senior

Best Public Affairs Program, 2 nd Place: Corey Berkowitz, Andover senior

Best News Feature Story, 3 rd Place: Corey Berkowitz, Andover senior

Best Public Service Announcement, 3 rd Place: Andrew Blumberg, Andover senior

Best Sportstalk Program, 3 rd Place: Evan Schuster/Nick Shlain/Lloyd Praedel, Andover seniors

Best Radio Drama- Original, 3 rd Place: Evan Schuster/Nick Shlain/Lloyd Praedel, Andover seniors and Eric Bowers, Lahser senior

Also nominated for a Drury Award were: Amy Muskovitz, Andover senior; Ridwan Alam, Andover junior; and Billy Whiting, Andover junior. The Best High School Radio Station award was presented to the WBFH management team consisting of Station Manager Pete Bowers and Remote Supervisor Ronald Wittebols. WGBK of Glenview, Illinois took 3rd Place in the station competition.

“I congratulate all the winners and nominees,” said Bowers. “I’m very proud of our students who won and for WBFH picking up another Best High School Radio Station award.”

Andover seniors Corey Berkowitz and Evan Schuster each won a total of three awards. Berkowitz had won six awards last year as a junior. Berkowitz, Schuster, Praedel and Shlain made the trip to Naperville to accept their awards. “It was an honor to win these national awards and it was a perfect way to end my high school career”, said Schuster.

First place award winners were also given a $1,000 scholarship to attend North Central College.