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Last fall I kept my eyes peeled for the chance to nominate my favorite college radio stations for the annual mtvU College Radio Woodie Award, but the opportunity never came up. I assumed that mtvU had disbanded the Woodies awards event, especially considering all of the complaints I’d had about the voting process over the […]
Amid all of the changes taking place after the January 18 announcement that University of San Francisco’s college radio station KUSF would be sold to Classical Public Radio Network, was commercial classical radio station KDFC‘s move (on January 24) to KUSF’s frequency of 90.3 FM. KDFC’s owner, Entercom, opted to hand its station’s brand and […]
While I’ve been fixated on the shutdown of college radio station KUSF in my own city of San Francisco, up in Toronto, Canada an equally serious situation is taking place at Ryerson University’s campus-community radio station CKLN. On January 28, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) revoked CKLN’s license and ordered the station […]
Right now supporters of KUSF are heading into City Hall in San Francisco, anticipating today’s 2pm Board of Supervisors’ meeting, in which a resolution opposing the sale of University of San Francisco’s college radio station KUSF is expected to be voted on. For the past two weeks KUSF volunteers and fans have been calling, writing […]
As we have been reporting over the past several months, KTRU, the student radio station at Rice University, has been fighting a proposed sale to University of Houston that was first announced in August. Although University of Houston hopes to eventually use the KTRU frequency for a classical public radio station (similar to what has […]
The battle to save college radio station KUSF has hit a new phase this week, as the group Save KUSF begins its work to fight the University of San Francisco station’s pending sale to Classical Public Radio Network (owned by University of Southern California and Public Radio Capital) through legal channels. In order to hire […]
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Yesterday a large crowd assembled at City Hall in San Francisco for a loud, but peaceful rally in support of saving University of San Francisco’s college radio station KUSF from a proposed sell-off to a public radio group. At the rally San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi spoke out against the sale and later introduced a […]
It’s hard to believe it’s been one week since University of San Francisco (USF) shut down college radio station KUSF as we know it. After turning off the FM transmitter, ushering out the on-air DJs and staff, and changing all the locks on the doors; USF handed over their airwaves to a simulcast of commercial […]
KUSF fans are still reeling after the sudden shut-down of University of San Francisco (USF)’s college radio station on Tuesday, January 18th at 10am. USF announced that it plans to sell KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network. The non-profit Classical Public Radio Network has already begun airing programming from the formerly commercial classical station KDFC […]
