CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1984
Page 9
KANU celebrates return to full broadcast power
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Many area residents who for the past 16 months had been deprived of KANU-FM's regular mixture of opera, jazz and classical music began receiving the station's signal Wednesday when the station returned to its full power of 110,000 watts, the station's director said yesterday.
"We, along with thousands of disenfranchised listeners, have waited 16 long months for this day." Howard Hill, the director, said.
Hill said that station engineers returned the station to full power at 4 p.m. Wednesday and had been testing the equipment since then.
Testing of the antenna and transmitter first began two weeks ago, shortly after workers completed the construction of the station's new tower, which replaced the 605-foot tower on Dec. 11 to avoid vandal's cuts of its wiry cables.
The station has broadcast at reduced power, 8.3 kilowatt, with some brief interruptions since Dec. 18, 1982, on a 100-foot temporary tower.
Broadcasting at low power limited the station's 85-mile broadcast radius to the Douglas County area, leaving counties in other parts of the state in silence.
Hill estimated that the loss of those
listeners and of underwriters in those areas are cost the station $50,000 in annual expenses.
And the station has faced more than $20,000 in expenses involved with low-power broadcasting, Al Berman, KANU director of development, said.
In March 1983, the station received a $154,000 insurance settlement that only covered damages.
KANU officials have planned activities to celebrate the return to full power and to help pay for the cost of broadcasting at low power.
A New Orleans-style diexialian jazz parade will begin at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday at the Chi Omega fountain, Berman said, and will be led by Paul Gray and his Gaslight Gang. KANU staff, listeners and supporters will end at the station's West Campus transmitter site.
KANU will present the Lawrence premiere of the film "Koyaniasisat!" at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St., to help raise funds for the arts and crafts. Berman said. Tickets will cost $2 and will be available at the door.
Berman also said that KANU's "Campaign for Excellence" fundraising drive would be from May 12 to May 19. KANU had delayed its on-air raising awards two years, he said, and resumed broadcasting at full power.
A candidate in this semester's student body elections pleaded guilty Friday to the theft of a KU mail truck from behind Strong Hill Houses. The attorney for the Douglas County district attorney's office said yesterday.
By the Kansan Staff
District Court. Swain ran as the presidential candidate for the Apathy - It Just Doesn't Matter coalition.
Ex-candidate pleads guilty
Robert Swain, 20, Topea sophomore, pleaded guilty to charges of both theft and burglary and will be sentenced May 5 in Douglas County
The truck was stolen April 13. A KU police officer began following the mail truck after the driver of the truck ran a stop sign at the Nishimachi Street and Naismith Drive, KU Police Lt. Jeanne Longaker said.
The officer chased the mail truck to a parking lot behind McColum Hall, where Swain abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
City managers' meeting at KU will focus on academic aspect
City managers from the Midwest will be at the Kansas Union tomorrow for a conference sponsored by the Center for Public Affairs and the Edwin O. Stene Graduate Program in Public Administration.
conference coordinator.
The conference, which began in 1947, is titled "Up Close and Personal: The Challenges of City Management in the '80s" and is expected to attract about 500 students from eight Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska and Colorado, said Wendy A. Murray, the
Murray said this year's conference would emphasize the academic aspect of problems that city managers face. In previous years, she said, the conference would focus on practical aspect, and city managers spoke on current problems in the field.
This year, professors from political science departments at Western Michigan University, University of Massachusetts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute will speak.
Lawrence City Manager Buford Watson said last week that he and Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, planned to attend.
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
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