University Daily Kansan, August 18, 1983
Page 6
KU has two radio alternatives to offer listeners
By ANNE AMOURY Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas adds a lot
of variety and color to the air area.
Two KU radio stations, KANU
9.1-FM and JKHK 9.7-FM, provide
flexible formats with alternative music
and news coverage without commercial
interruptions for the Lawrence,
Missouri and Kansas City listening
areas.
Although both stations are considered "alternatives" to commercial radio stations, they are quite different in their intentions.
KANU, AN AFFILIATE of National
Affiliation, appeals to wide variety
of interests.
But radio stations must be careful about how seriously they take the idea of appealing to diverse interests, accorded to Brogden, KANU program director.
"This idea can be carried out to extremes such as something like the 'Latvian Hour' or the 'Bulgarian Folk Music Hour.'" he said.
KANU tries to stay away from such extremely narrow programs, Brogdon said, while maintaining an innovative approach to radio programming.
Meanwhile, KJHK seems to welcome the obscure in programming. KJHK, known as "The Sound Alternative," devotes most of its airtime to "progres-
Some groups that fall into this category are Violent Femmes from Milwaukee, REM from Athens, Ga., and Aztec Camera from Scotland.
THE PROGRESSIVE STATION also plays music from some hard-core punk groups such as Black Flag, synthesized dance music groups such as Move and Yaz, and funk groups such as Prince and Grand Master Flash, according to KJHK promotions director Ray Velasouez.
Unlike KANU, which is a professional operation, KJHK serves as a laboratory for broadcast majors and other students.
Students are in charge of programming, management, production, underwriting and all other aspects of the radio station's business.
Faculty adviser Dale Gadd, associate professor of radio-TV-film, helps the students, but he does not give the orders.
Neither of the University stations is run commercially.
from underwriters and listeners.
As a public radio station, KANU depends on federal and state government money and private contributions
According to Al Berman, KANU development director, the government money pays mostly for salaries, equipment and utilities while the private money pays for expenses that allow KANU to produce exceptional radio programs.
ACCORDING TO GADD, about 80 percent of KJHK is funded by the Student Senate and the rest of the money comes from the KJHK underwriting staff. KJHK receives a fixed percentage from the student activity fee and must request any additional money in budget hearings, he said.
Brian Copelah, KJHK's fall program director and Lawrence senior, said the station's mission was to play music that cannot be heard elsewhere.
"If we were here to make money we'd be playing Styx or Loverboy," he said. "Good or bad, it's already being done.
"We can compete with the big rock stations in KC, Lawrence and northeast Kansas. We don't want to. So there's a machine that is not grinded out of some machine."
STEVE BACKER, head of college promotions for CBS Records in New York, said that KJHK was one of the top 10 college stations in the country.
"JKHK is definitely one of the most important college stations in terms of exposing new music," he said. "It has a very positive feeling and is a very, very good alternative."
He said he gauged a station's success by boosted sales of records played only on CDs.
"This consistently does happen at KJK," he said.
KJHK prides itself on introducing good music other stations will not play. Copeland said, KJHK considers itself to heard of its time in its selection of music.
FOR EXAMPLE, COFELAND said, KJHIK was playing Dexys Midnight Runners at least two years before they played a game of catching the balls with the song "Come on Eileen."
KANU, in addition to offering a wide variety of music, presents extensive collections.
Along with in-depth syndicated news programs such as "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," KANU offers locally produced news shows such as "KANU Almanac" and "In Other Words."
In April "In Other Words" won an award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of the most prestigious awards in public radio, Brogdon said.
KJHK will begin broadcasting international, national, state, local and campus news from 7 to 9 a.m., at noon, and from 5 to 6 p.m. weekdays. Newscasters will be end of August. Newscasters will be students in Broadcast News classes.
ASIDE FROM NEWS shows, both KANU and KJHK offer other diverse programs.
KANU is one of the few public radio stations with long-running programs.
"Opera Is My Hobby," with James Seaver, professor of history, has been on the air for more than 30 years and the "Jazz Scene," with Dick Wright, jazz coannounser and associate profes- tor of history, has been on the air for more than 20 years.
Also "The American Past," with by Calder Pickett, professor of journalism, has been on the air for more than a decade. The American Past" won the Peabody Award in 1973.
KANU also offers "The KU Concert Series," which broadcasts a variety of KU concerts and recitals, and "Live at the Jazzhaus," which broadcasts live big-name shows from the Jazzhaus, 926 N. Massachusetts St.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR BROGDON is working on the second radio drama he has helped produce for a new series,
"The Imagination Workshop."
KJHK also offers a variety of programs of which we are scheduled at our location.
"Soul Voyage," an alternative soul music program; "Dread at the Controls," an informative and entertaining reggae show; "The Modern Jazz Show, an avant garde jazz show, and "The Debraining Machine," an industry-busting show; and KJHIK's weekend offerings. Capeland said that people would "just have to tune in Sundays at 10 p.m. to understand it."
KANU and KJHK seem to com- plement each other well
A third station, KPFR, is the only AM station affiliated with the University, but over the years that affiliation has grown. The station is operated Dick KANU director of operations
THE STATION NOW is "sharing time" with a Topeka commercial station, WREN. Dick said, and for about the past year, KFKU has only been on the air about thirty minutes a day.
For Lawrence radio listeners dissatisfied with the programming of commercial stations, the richness in University stations KANU and KJHK is only as far away as the nearest radio dial.
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