Today, supporters of University of Evansville’s college radio station WUEV (see our recent coverage, as well as the story of how WUEV fought off a possible sale many years ago) congregated on the Evansville, Indiana campus for a “Fight for WUEV” rally. “This gathering, organized by students, matters given new unconfirmed updates from multiple sources […]
Today Centenary College announced that it plans to sell the license for its community/public radio station WNTI-FM in Hackettstown, New Jersey to another, yet to be identified, public radio station. Up until this point WNTI has been an Adult Album Alternative-focused station airing a mix of local, community-produced programming, NPR news, and syndicated shows like […]
As the end of the year approaches, I’m already starting to think about what the overarching themes of 2014 were for college radio. Like many recent years, it’s been a mix of good and bad news this year. The situation at Georgia State University’s WRAS-FM is a high profile example of public radio’s ongoing interest […]
Friends of KUSF and KUSF listener Ted Hudacko have both filed Applications for Review with the FCC, asking for further scrutiny of the transfer of the license for KUSF 90.3 FM from University of San Francisco (USF) to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN). After the shut-down of college radio station KUSF 90.3 FM in January, […]
It’s encouraging to see that a number of upcoming events and conferences will be addressing the future of college radio. I will be speaking on a panel at the National Student Media Convention in October and am also hoping to moderate a panel “College Radio’s Crisis: Activism or Apathy” during the SXSW music festival next […]
At a lunch-time protest outside Entercom’s San Francisco offices yesterday, KUSF supporters reminded their foes that the fight regarding the future of college radio station KUSF is far from over. Around 50 protesters gathered outside Entercom’s Third Street studios, voicing concerns about the corporate radio conglomerate’s role in the complicated deal that led to the […]
The legal back and forth with the FCC over the proposed sale of University of San Francisco (USF)’s college radio station KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN) has featured arguments from several people and entities who have filed Petitions to Deny the station transfer. KUSF listener Ted Hudacko, who previously filed a Petition to […]
Over the past 10 days, the lawyers for Friends of KUSF have been delving into the hundreds of pages of documents that were submitted in response to the FCC’s recent letter of inquiry into the pending sale of college radio station KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN). As I recounted in my story yesterday, […]
It’s been nearly seven months since the plug was pulled on the University of San Francisco (USF) terrestrial college radio station KUSF, and the FCC is still scrutinizing the pending sale of the 90.3 FM license to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN). On August 1, USF and CPRN submitted their joint response to the FCC’s […]
It’s nice to hear some good news amid all the battles over the future of college radio. After a very public protest over a rumored sell-off, the University of Otago student radio station Radio One 91FM in Dunedin, New Zealand announced today that the station will not be sold. Back in July, the student association […]
