Student Media in the News: July 10, 2018

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WLHA alumni take over UW student radio station for the weekend

It’s a 64-hour marathon they’re calling the “WLHA Resurrection Reunion Weekend.”

“I don’t know that it does a lot to improve their listenership, but we have a lot of fun, and we try to recreate the types of shows that we did back in the day,” said Lee Harris, who has worked his whole career in radio. He has been on CBS New York for 25 years.

Read more from Channel3000.com WISC Madison.

How is college radio faring in the streaming era?

College radio can still be heard in the cacophony. Stations are a destination for those seeking new music and, crucially, new perspectives on that music which algorithms cannot provide. College radio may not again witness the heyday it had in the late 1980s and early 90s, but it is still capable of being a tastemaker, curating music journeys and championing local artists.

Read more from The Economist.

KXSF, a new radio station with a familiar attitude, is nearly live

When KUSF was abruptly yanked off the air in 2011, San Francisco lost a critical outlet for locally sourced music and community programming.

But thanks to the hard work of a handful of former DJs and staff members who founded San Francisco Community Radio in its wake, the free-form spirit of the old KUSF will return to the city’s airwaves in a few weeks as a low-power FM radio station with a new frequency and call letters, KXSF 102.5.

Read more from SFGate.com.

Plus, the College Radio Watch column.