Actually, WCBU has had a new website for a little while now, but I’m just getting around to blogging about it. WCBU is, of course, the public radio station in Peoria (89.9 FM) with studios at Bradley University. If you haven’t checked it out their new site, take a look: http://www.wcbufm.org/.

The local news is posted in a blog-like form. Shorter stories are text-only. Longer stories are posted as an audio clip. Each story has a permatag, so if I want to refer to a specific WCBU story, I can link directly to the post on it. For instance, if I want to talk about the big District 150 meeting yesterday, here’s what WCBU had to say about it. There’s also a section devoted to their Outside the Horseshoe program, which airs just before the Peoria City Council meetings.

The old site was largely static and hard to navigate. The new site is much improved, with lots of dynamic content and an improved menu system.