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| founded = 22 September 1941
| hq_location = [[Ithaca, New York]]
| areas_served = [[Tompkins County]]<br>[[Central New York]]
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The '''Cornell Media Guild, Inc.''', also known as CMG, is a [[Cornell University]] student-run 501(c)3 [[non-profit corporation]] based out of [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref name="nonprofit">{{Cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/156025112|title=Cornell Media Guild – Nonprofit Explorer|first=Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu, Brandon|last=Roberts|date=May 9, 2013|website=ProPublica}}</ref> It is fully independent from the University and receives no funding from it.<ref name="cornell">{{Cite web|url=https://volunteer.alumni.cornell.edu/communities/cornell-media-guild-test|title=Cornell University Alumni Volunteering|website=volunteer.alumni.cornell.edu}}</ref> It is the parent company of 93.5 [[WVBR-FM]], CornellRadio.com, and Electric Buffalo Records.<ref name="giving"/><ref name="keith">{{Cite web|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/02/keith-olbermann-79-helps-wvbr-move-new-digs|title=Keith Olbermann '79 helps WVBR move to new digs &#124; Cornell Chronicle|website=news.cornell.edu|access-date=2023-11-04|archive-date=2021-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227003644/https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/02/keith-olbermann-79-helps-wvbr-move-new-digs|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name ="burst">{{Cite web|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/11/crowdfunding-burst-features-twenty-seven-student-groups|title=Crowdfunding burst features twenty-seven student groups &#124; Cornell Chronicle|website=news.cornell.edu|access-date=2023-11-04|archive-date=2022-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105072336/https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/11/crowdfunding-burst-features-twenty-seven-student-groups|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cornellsun.com/2017/12/15/cornells-newest-trappers-mare-and-j-hall/,%20https://cornellsun.com/2017/12/15/cornells-newest-trappers-mare-and-j-hall/|title=Cornell's Newest Trappers: Maré and J Hall – The Cornell Daily Sun|date=December 15, 2017|website=cornellsun.com}}</ref><ref name="recent">{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/wvbr-facts/|title=Tune Your Radio Dial To … Fascinating Facts About WVBR!|first=Joe|last=Wilensky|date=June 20, 2023|access-date=November 4, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629223309/https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/wvbr-facts/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== History ==
Then-named the Cornell Radio Guild, the organization was formed in 1935 and later became a non-profit membership corporation on September 22, 1941.<ref name="about"/><ref name="registry"/> CMG initially was focused around its radio station, WVBR-FM, but later expanded in the 2000s as it opened an online [[free-form radio]] station called CornellRadio.com and a record label called Electric Buffalo Records.<ref name="ebr">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ithaca.com/entertainment/music/the-shape-of-things-to-come-electric-buffalo-records/article_214d29de-9d0f-11e5-82d2-afc79ccbd63a.html|title=The Shape of Things to Come: Electric Buffalo Records|first=Christopher J.|last=Harrington|date=December 7, 2015|website=Ithaca Times|access-date=November 4, 2023|archive-date=May 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511024444/http://www.ithaca.com/entertainment/music/the-shape-of-things-to-come-electric-buffalo-records/article_214d29de-9d0f-11e5-82d2-afc79ccbd63a.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Organization ==
The Cornell Media Guild, and all its divisions, is run managed by students.<ref name="about"/><ref name="burst"/><ref name="recent"/>

Local volunteers, although not inducted members of the Guild, help run CMG as weekend DJs, traffic managers, and in providing support to students.<ref name="cornell"/><ref name="recent"/>

=== Executive Board ===

The student Executive Board is elected every March by inducted student members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wvbr.com/executive-board|title=Executive Board &#124; WVBR 93.5 FM &#124; Ithaca's Alternative &#124; United States|website=WVBR 93.5 FM|access-date=2023-11-04|archive-date=2023-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528211418/https://www.wvbr.com/executive-board|url-status=live}}</ref> Terms last one year and the transition of power typically occurs during the yearly reunion weekend between current CMG members and alumni, known as ''Symposium''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/March14/EU.WVBR.new.home.html|title=Ezra Update: Alumni help WVBR return to Collegetown|website=ezramagazine.cornell.edu|access-date=2023-11-04|archive-date=2023-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314023558/https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/March14/EU.WVBR.new.home.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The board is responsible for electing the members of the Board of Directors.<ref name="giving"/><ref name="bod">{{Cite web|url=https://www.wvbr.com/bod|title=Board of Directors &#124; WVBR 93.5 FM &#124; Ithaca's Alternative|website=WVBR 93.5 FM|access-date=2023-11-04|archive-date=2023-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528073628/https://www.wvbr.com/bod|url-status=live}}</ref> These alumni serve as guidance and a resource to the student Exec.

== References ==
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[[Category:Non-profit corporations]]
[[Category:Mass media companies]]
[[Category:Companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Radio broadcasting companies of the United States]]

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