Student Media in the News

Community Broadcaster: College Radio Shows the Way

College students running university-based radio are the literal future of community radio. Let’s do more to ensure our present welcomes them in the best way we can.

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How it all started: Debunking KCPR myths

Their efforts fell short — no department would let them conduct a radio station in their storage rooms. After searching all over and with few options left, their professor-turned-adviser Glenn Smith suggested getting a school bus and parking it by a building to use as their station.

That request went to then-University President Dr. Robert E. Kennedy, who said, “No way is that gonna happen,” according to Holmes.

Read more from Mustang News.

Sequoia Union High School District board to discuss KCEA at upcoming meeting

Officials are tuning their focus to the Sequoia Union High School District’s radio station in the effort to determine the school system’s future in the broadcast business.

The district Board of Trustees will discuss Wednesday, Oct. 24, the fate of 89.1 KCEA-FM, the low-watt station owned and operated by the school system since 1979.

Read more from The Daily Journal.