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Radio Pubcaster WLIU Receives Stay of Execution
WLIU 88.3 FM Earlier this month Long Island University announced it would sell off its public radio outlet WLIU, tired of sinking $1.3 million a year into the station. Now, according to the...
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Paperwork for KTRU Sale Submitted to FCC
Despite ongoing protests from KTRU fans, Rice University students and alumni, Rice University has gone through with their plan to submit an application to the FCC in order to transfer ownership of...
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Letter Writing Campaign to Protest Sale of KTRU Begins while New Details...
KTRU Letter Writing Campaign Begins As we reported earlier this month, paperwork has been submitted to the FCC in reference to the sale of Rice University radio station KTRU to University of Houston....
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Last Chance to Send Comments to FCC Regarding KTRU Sale
FCC Comment Period Ends this Week for KTRU Sale Supporters of Rice University’s student-run radio station KTRU are rallying fans of independent, local college radio as they continue to fight the sale...
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KTRU Supporters Petition FCC to Halt Sale of Rice University Station
KTRU is still fighting to save their station It’s been a long fight for supporters of student radio station KTRU at Rice University, who don’t want to see their station sold off to University of...
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University of San Francisco Takes KUSF off FM and Plans to Sell License to...
Entrance to KUSF I just heard the news that University of San Francisco is going to be transferring control of their FM license for college radio station KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network....
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KUSF License Reportedly Being Sold for $3.75 million
KUSF DJ before they all got locked out... There’s a chilling account on the Bay Citizen blog which reports what happened this morning at 10am when college radio station KUSF was taken off the air at...
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KUSF DJs and Fans Gear Up to Fight Proposed College Radio Station Sale, While...
KUSF Music Director Irwin Swirnoff in Record Library in Jan. 2009 (Photo by J. Waits) KUSF fans are still reeling after the sudden shut-down of University of San Francisco (USF)’s college radio...
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KUSF Supporters Head to San Francisco City Hall Today for Peaceful Rally
Save KUSF 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...
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USF’s 2nd Request to Move KUSF Transmitter Met with Opposition by KZSU
KZSU Fan Letters. Photo by J. Waits As they await word on the proposed sale of University of San Francisco’s college radio station KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN), the folks at USF and...
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FCC Approves Sale of KTRU to University of Houston
There was sad news today for fans of Rice University’s college radio station KTRU. In the battle for the future of their station that’s been raging since August 2010, it appears the KTRU may have lost...
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WRVU Still Fighting to Save College Radio at Vanderbilt
Save WRVU Campaign Continues at Vanderbilt University Back in September 2010, students at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee were informed that the group that owns the student radio...
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WRVU’s Call Letters Changed to WFCL Sparking College Radio Station Sale Rumors
WRVU's Future Looks Grim It can’t be a good sign when a college radio station that’s rumored to be for sale secretly changes its call letters during summer break. Well, that’s what happened on June 1...
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Nashville Public Radio to Buy Vanderbilt College Radio Station WRVU for Use...
WRVU Sold to Public Radio Network For Use as Classical Station Today is the day that supporters of college radio at Vanderbilt University have been dreading. After yesterday’s news leak that the call...
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KUSF Studio Dismantled Prematurely While Sale of College Radio Station Awaits...
Sad Sign on Door at KUSF on May 17, 2011 (Photo: J. Waits) Just four months after University of San Francisco (USF) pulled the plug on KUSF’s terrestrial broadcast, the former KUSF studio in Phelan...
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Sad Final Moments of WRVU’s Terrestrial Broadcast Recounted as Supporters...
Save WRVU Campaign Heats Up As I read through the accounts of WRVU’s final terrestrial moments last week, I get a horrible feeling of deja vu as I recall how I felt when learning about the sudden...
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FCC Issues Letter of Inquiry into Proposed KUSF Sale
Bike outside Phelan Hall shortly before KUSF studio was dismantled (Photo: J. Waits) The fight over the future of University of San Francisco’s college radio station KUSF took an interesting turn...
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USF Granted Request to Limit Scope of FCC Inquiry into Pending KUSF Sale
Signage at KUSF in Exile (Photo: J. Waits) University of San Francisco (USF) and Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN) are probably in the midst of scrambling to pull together documents for the FCC...
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Lehigh Carbon Community College Files Paperwork to Sell WXLV FM License to...
Back in 2011, we reported that Lehigh Carbon Community College station WXLV 90.3 FM in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania was rumored to be up for sale. Fans of the college radio station held rallies,...
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FCC Approves WXLV-FM License Assignment to Religious Broadcaster
FM broadcasts for Lehigh Carbon Community College radio station WXLV will cease by early April, following the consummation of the sale of the FM license to Four Rivers Community Broadcasting. On...
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WPTC Leaves Penn College after Sale to New Local Non-Profit
Last year we wrote about the uncertainly surrounding the future of Penn College radio station WPTC. Following the discontinuation of its mass media major, the station’s fate was in limbo. Well, as of...
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College Radio Survivor: College Radio News Round-Up
As the FCC works its way through the recent batch of LPFM applications, we’re continuing to see some reports from college radio stations who are anxiously awaiting news. One such applicant, Middlesex...
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FCC Approves Assignment of Former WRVU License to Nashville Public Radio
In a letter dated today (PDF), the FCC approved the renewal application and assigned the license for WFCL to Nashville Public Radio. The non-commercial FM station was formerly Vanderbilt University’s...
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College Radio Survivor: Faculty Ask to Halt WDBK Sale, KRFH Launches LPFM,...
I spent last week traveling and happily immersed in the world of college radio and so this week’s College Radio Survivor will be a super-sized edition (apologies for the lack of a column last week). I...
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University of Washington to Assign KEXP License to Non-Profit Group that...
The University of Washington Regents have filed paperwork (PDF) with the FCC to assign the license for music-oriented public radio station KEXP-FM to the non-profit Friends of KEXP in exchange for...
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College Radio Watch: WSCS Sale Details and Film of Yale’s WYBC in 1950s
Last week I reported on the impending sale of the Colby-Sawyer College radio station WSCS-FM to the Vinikoor Foundation. After corresponding with representatives from the college and from Vinikoor, I...
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Jones College Sells WKTZ-FM and WJAX-AM Licenses to Religious Broadcaster EMF
The FCC has granted the assignment of two radio licenses held by Jones College to religious broadcaster Educational Media Foundation (EMF). Licenses for WKTZ-FM and WJAX-AM in Jacksonville, Florida...
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College Radio Watch: University of Houston to Sell Former KTRU Frequency +...
Houston Public Media announced yesterday that it plans to sell off its KUHA 91.7 FM license (aka Classical 91.7) and will move its classical music programming to HD radio (via 88.7 FM HD2). Radio...
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FCC Denies Applications for Review Related to Sale of College Radio Station...
It’s been a long, contentious battle over the one-time FM college radio station KUSF-FM at University of San Francisco (USF), whose license was sold to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN) after the...
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UMass Dartmouth Plans to Sell License for College Radio Station WUMD to Rhode...
Today, it was announced that University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth intends to sell the 89.3 FM license for its college radio station, WUMD-FM, to Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) for $1.5 million....
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UMass Dartmouth Files FCC Paperwork for Proposed WUMD College Radio Station...
Yesterday, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announced plans to sell the license for music-focused college radio station WUMD-FM to Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) for use as a talk-oriented...
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College Radio Watch: FCC Grants Consent for WUMD License Assignment, WKDU...
Earlier this week, on May 1, the FCC granted consent for the license assignment for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth college radio station WUMD to Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR). As readers...
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College Radio Watch: WETN Sale Finalized and More News
I just learned that the sale of college radio station WETN has been finalized. You may recall that last fall I reported that Wheaton College was contemplating a sale of its FM license for college...
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WBRU License Expected to be Sold to Christian Radio Group EMF
Rumors have been circulating for awhile that the 95.5 FM license for commercial radio station WBRU at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island was up for sale and just last month there was...
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WBRU Programming Leaves FM in Advance of $5.63 Million License Sale to EMF
At 11:59pm last night, Brown University’s student-run commercial college radio station WBRU brought its broadcasts over 95.5 FM in Providence, Rhode Island to a close, making way for syndicated...
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