College Broadcasters Inc. has announced on its website a minute of silence for those stations that have fallen to the non-com consolidators: On April 28, 2011 at 6:00a, Rice University’s KTRU’s signal will transfer to the University of Houston. KTRU has a long history of providing alternative programming to the Houston metro. The new owner [...]
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This post on the Save KTRU site speaks to the anger those involved in Rice Radio hold for the FCC and its ruling selling the student station to the University of Houston: FCC reneges on its commitment to localism Decision to allow transfer of KTRU license contrary to the public interest HOUSTON, April 17, 2011— [...]
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One year ago today we started this site with the hope of shining a light on what we saw happening to public radio stations across the country. Whether it was the sudden canceling of popular shows, the fallacy of HD radio, or the creeping influence of national groups such as NPR, we wanted to point [...]
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On July 2nd, 2009, the faithful fans of KUT-FM’s long-time DJ Larry Monroe tuned in to hear his world-renowned free-form music program The Phil Music Show (Phil Music being a fictitious DJ who never showed up, leaving Larry to “stand in”). But instead of Larry there was a new DJ and a new program, filled [...]
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The folks fighting for station WRVU at Vanderbilt have kept up the pressure, sending out this release yesterday: Fellow college radio stations KTRU and KUSF are in more advanced stages of a fight for survival — both found themselves in the predicament of having no warning before having their transmitter silenced and locks to their [...]
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Reading this post, “The Road Goes on Forever” — about how galled classical-music fans in Tampa were over the botched switch of their main-squeeze station to talk-talk (with their music supposedly “repurposed” elsewhere) — got Jim Radio to thinking about the similarities to the situation in Houston, where UH desperately needed another public-radio station and [...]
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An interesting post from a former DJ at Rice University’s KTRU on the Vibes d’Afrique discussion board, delineating, among other things, the extent of the attrition among college and community radio stations. The Owl students are far from finished: I host “The Africana Show” on Rice University Radio, KTRU- 91.7 FM Houston, Saturdays 1-3. Tuesday [...]
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Yesterday a correspondent sent this along via the message box in the left column: Re: a recent op-ed in the Washington Post by the CEO of New York Public Radio, ending with what is obviously a cut-and-paste from the “170 Million for public media” people. “At its core, public broadcasting belongs to the American people; [...]
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The Texas Watchdog turned up some interesting facts about the sale of KTRU, Rice University’s student station, to the University of Houston in a post entitled “KTRU broker cost University of Houston $200K; deal inked within months of U of H furloughs, other cuts.” The following just points out the discrepancy between the motives of [...]
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FCC Response to Austin Airwaves’s Request to Deny transfer of NCE License KTRU-FM, Houston, TX Dear Consumer, During the license renewal process, listeners of the stations whose licenses are up for renewal may participate in the process either by filing a petition to deny or informal objection against a renewal or by filing positive comments [...]
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