Here at the beginning of a new year it’s a bit of a tradition for both individuals and groups to look back on the past year and look forward to the year ahead. Here at Keeping the Public in Public Radio, the contributors and editors don’t want to be left out, so we’re going to [...]
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Writing on the site Radio Survivor, Jennifer Waits heaped kudos on the stalwarts at Rice University fighting for their student radio station. The bean counters at Rice and UH had countered the petition students had filed with the FCC, and now the students have fired back: On December 13, both University of Houston and Rice [...]
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Two attorneys reviewed the Texas AG’s decision and provided Austin Airwaves with this response. We thank them for their efforts on behalf the the greater SAVE KTRU Radio community. AG only exempted from disclosure a limited set of documents, and that the rest should be released. 1) Things that UH didn’t want to release b/c [...]
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Jim Radio of Austin Airwaves filed a request with the University of Houston under the Texas Open Records Act seeking information about the sale of the Rice University student radio station. The U of H responded by appealing to the attorney general’s office, crying foul. The attorney general’s subsequent response is couched in lawyer jargon, [...]
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News of the upheaval in college radio has even reached the pages of the New York Times, which reported here on action at Rice and Vanderbilt universities: Like many college radio stations across the country, Rice University’s KTRU and Vanderbilt University’s WRVU play a broad swath of music — from undiscovered indie bands and obscure [...]
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December 3, 2010 Federal Communications Commission Honorable Commissioners: I hereby file a Formal Objection to the proposed license transfer of NCE station KTRU 91.7 FM, Houston, TX, and its 91.5 FM translator from Rice University (“Rice”) to the University of Houston System (“UHS”). File No. BALED-20101029ACX and BALFT-20101029ACY. The manner in which the administration of [...]
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It’s time to act if you want to speak out for independent/college/free-form radio — namely, that at Rice University, where the students’ 50,000-watt radio station is in the process of being sold out from under them by a callous administration. As this post notes, on the Daily Cougar.com site of the University of Houston — [...]
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Students at the University of Houston have also expressed their dismay at the surreptitious sale of the Rice University 50,000-watt radio station, KTRU, to UH, a school that already owned and operated an NPR station. According to this post on the Houston student website, Daily Cougar.com, a number of students spoke up at a recent [...]
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Such, then, is the final word of the ham-fisted bureaucrats at Rice University in the ongoing public relations disaster that has been the impending sale of KTRU, the student-run 50,000-watt radio station in Houston. Bumbling from one mealy-mouthed rationale to the next — a requisite of the job apparently at our nation’s universities of late [...]
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On the website for the movement to save the Rice student radio station, KTRU, there are a number of things you can do to help. The time for action is now. The struggle for free-form radio goes badly everywhere, but you might be able to make a difference here. If you live outside of the [...]
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