The opposite happened where I went to school. My tiny alma mater in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Lutheran University, somehow houses one of the largest NPR stations in the country (KPLU). They recently opened a state-of-the-art broadcast center. I never worked there, but I worked at the on-campus alt/indie rock station (then called KCCR, which stood for closed circuit radio). A few years after I graduated, the alt station began broadcasting to the local community.
I actually preferred the freedom of being closed circuit. Like satellite radio, we were free to say and play anything, but more than that -- I gained experience in learning the engineering of the station, helping to rewire the studio at least twice while I was there (which involved lengthy periods of taking the station offline, which the FCC frowns upon). The radio station was across the hall from the school's closed circuit TV station, which I was in charge of during my senior year (I learned how to completely wire an analog TV station, a skill rendered obsolete about a year later when digital became the standard). When it came time for my radio show, I'd drag cameras across the hall and televise the radio show like Don Imus did on (at the time) C-Span, or when it was snowing I'd point the camera out the window and watch the drunks and stoners venture outside to put on a live freakshow. Couldn't have done that if we had to adhere to FCC standards. Now, what used to be the closed circuit TV and radio stations broadcast to the public off campus, and that means there is no place to experiment with the technology of either medium. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > As a Rice alum, I have to say that my facebook newsfeed is full of very angry > KTRU supporters... > > > On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:23 PM, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yesterday, the University of Houston bought from Rice University >> student-run, volunteer DJ indie rocking "free form" KTRU in Houston, >> with the intention of changing the calls to KUHC and moving classical >> music programming from its NPR station KUHF to that frequency (KUHF >> would become full-time news-talk). Although KTRU would continue as an >> Internet stream, let us just say that despite all that talk about the >> kids not listening to the radio and stuck on Pandora and iPods (and >> the fact that KTRU only gets a hash mark in the newest Arbitron PPMs, >> although that could be because the station isn't encoded because they >> don't subscribe), the KTRU staffers are not happy: >> >> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7157667.html >> >> The alt-weekly Houston Press has been posting a multitude of posts on >> its blogs about the story since rumors broke on Monday, mostly pro- >> KTRU and against the U of H--although one would write off the protests >> of the staffers as a quixotic struggle that they won't win, especially >> because they're a bunch of college student smartasses playing punk >> rock and avant-garde music instead of Beethoven, I have the feeling >> this story is nowhere near done. >> >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
