Wednesday. April 23.1980
University Daily Kansan
Off the air, "Voice of Jayhawks"builds KU network
By STEVE YOUNG
Staff Reporter
When the Legislature is in session, the chancellor probably acts as the "Vice of the Kansas Jayhawks." Once football player Bucky Harper took the role undisgusted goes to Tom Hendrick.
Hedrick, director of the KU Sports Network, is responsible for Kansas radio affiliates that broadcast KU football and men's basketball games. Hedrick recruits stations to subscribe to the network, helps students engaging and is the broadcaster for the games.
"YOU CAN'T DRIVE 50 miles anywhere in the state on a Saturday afternoon and not hear our play-by-play," Hedrick said of the team. "We've got a cohesive descriptor to the network during football season."
Combined with the 14 stations that subscribe during the basketball season, the network is the largest in the Big Eight. Combined and one of the largest in the he said he.
Hedrick said that the main advantage for a station was that it could broadcast KU games more cheaply than if it originated its own broadcast.
Convincing radio stations to join the network is a major part of Hedrick's job.
IF THERE IS a secret to success, he said,
it is in meeting people and meeting commitments.
"You just roll up your sleeves and go out."
"And you stay here," the key factor is meeting people. "The key factor is meeting people. You do them for you, you have to do for them. If you say you'll do the commercial, you do it."
"I try to help stations all I can. We have to have the radio stations to get the coverage."
On game days and nights, Heinrich broadcasts the games through KANU, one of the University's two FM stations. The
games are transmitted across phone lines, but pre-game interviews and features are tapped in advance and mailed to network members.
"When it comes right down to it, we're making long distance calls through KANU," he said.
The rate that stations pay to subscribe to the network depends upon the size of the community and the number of additional stations as coaches' shows, that the station wants.
Rates for the play-by-play, pre-game and scouting features, which all stations receive, are divided into four categories for football and three for basketball.
FOR FOOTALL, the largest stations—including Topka, Mexico, and Lawrence pays $85. Smaller stations—including Gainst, Great Bend, and Grunwick pay $45.
For basketball, the largest stations pay $55 per game, medium-sized stations, including Lawrence, pay $40 and the smallest stations pay $30.
"We want to make sure that the smaller team is safer than the games," Hedrick said. "Our game plan is made a profit. Our main game plan is to provide the KU sports fan with football and basketball."
network, which began in 1952, to several factors.
Hedrick said 50 percent of network expenses were paid from the station fees and 50 percent from network-wide advertising sold by Hedrick.
The single most expensive item, the use of phone lines, costs about $18,000 per year. He said. Advertising revenue should pay for phone costs and engineering expenses.
"We have good color people," he said. "A color commentator adds commentary on the plays."
Station fees, ideally, pay for other expenses, including salaries, travel costs and phone installations, he said.
He said one of last year's color men, former KU All-America quarterback David Jaynes, was a good example.
"He did beautifully," Hedrick said. "he can see it and articulate it. He has a very good voice, and he can say it in 15 seconds." Another factor is fan support.
HEDRICK CREDITED the success of the
"In 1952 it began 'because Kansas broadcasters wanted KU sports,' he said.
"The farther away you get from Lawrence, the more intense their feelings are." he said.
Hedrick added that the same was true today.
Others to hold the title of "Voice of the Kansas Jayhawks" include Merle Harden, an NBC-T sportscaster and former host of the ABC college football scoreboard show; and Mike Grigis, associated with Kansas City sportscasting for many years.
director of the network. He headed it from 1960 to 1967 and returned in 1975.
Between 1967 and 1975, Hedrick used for television stations in Lincoln, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., Cincinnati and Dallas. He was the radio voice for the Kansas City Cincinnati Reds and Texas Rangers. He also hosted Cotton Bowl and three Super Bowls.
In addition to directing the KU sports network, Hedrick teaches a sports broadcasting class in the School of Journalism and recruits for the athletic department.
Hedrick said that the number of stations
in the network fluctuated with the success of the seasons, but that the number of stations had remained fairly constant over the last few years.
"The thing that please us is to have all the major markets covered.
"It's like anything else. You go up when you're winning and go down when you're losing," he said. "I'm glad they're not on your side, and ship when we don't have a successful year."
"Our network is solid and has been since 1952. It's an awfully clean way to run a network."
Business dean search suspended
By JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Reporter
The search for the new dean of the School of Business has been suspended and the process will be re-deean after the board declares that it increases the salary of the dean's position.
According to Deanell Tacha, associate vice-chancellor for academic affairs, the selection process has been suspended because of a decision to change the title and increase the salary of the job following a major gift in connection with the deanship.
Tacha said that following the receipt of the gift, it was necessary, according to Affirmative Action guidelines, that the search committee re-advertise the position.
The Chancellor's office, the academic affairs office and Allen Ford, professor of law at Columbia University, committee, refused to elaborate on the contribution, which was mentioned in and that they did not want to
jeopardize the gift by premature publication of the details.
JIM SCALLY, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said he did not know when the chancellor's office was planning to release the information on the contribution
Another reason the dean search has been suspended, according to Tacha, is that one of the faculty members on the search team was assigned and a replacement is being sought.
week to make the replacement and to begin the selection process again, she said.
Because of this delay, a new dean probably will not be chosen until next fall.
"The time schedule probably won't be completed until October." Taeda said.
The resignation of the school's present dean, Joseph Pichler, takes effect July 1. Tacha said that an acting dean would be selected to serve during the interim.
"I would like to see this happen as soon as possible, certainly by June 1," Tacha said. The ACTING action would be selected
from the School of Business faculty and could plan on serving the entire fall semester. Tacha said.
The committee is hoping to meet next
Ralph Christoffersen, vice-chancellor for academic affairs, has asked the faculty to consider a change in the final selection would make the final selection. Christoffersen is in China and was unavailable for the interview.
The position opened when Pichler, who has been dean since 1974, resigned in October to take a job with the Dillon Comfort Group, a private company. The annual salary of $48,560 at KU
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