University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 14, 1953
Page 9
Wired Wireless Operation Not As Confusing As Name
A wired wireless radio station is one in which programs are sent by direct wire to a limitet area of reception. In the KDGU setup a telephone wire from the studios to the transmitter in Corbin and North College halls has been leased.
Unless there is a perceptible radio wave beyond 300 feet from the radiating medium, the Federal Communications commission has no control over the station, thus giving it more freedom, for experimentation.
Corbin and North College were chosen as reception areas because more students could be reached there from a single transmitter than any other group. Later it is hoped that service can be extended by placing transmitters near the proposed men's dormitory, so that hall and fraternity and sorority houses on West Hills live may be able to get reception.
Eventually perhaps each organized house may have a transmitter, and most of the student body may be able to listen.
When the William Allen White School of Journalism was moved to its present location, two rooms on the second floor were set aside for the hoped-for studio and were accouttually treated. During the past summer Don Dixon, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the radio curriculum, and Hal Carlson, chief engineer of Lawrence station KLWN, wired and tested the station as new equipment arrived.
Headquarters for KDGU are two studios-a large Studio A, a small Studio B, a large control room and announcers booth, and the general office room, which includes news, continuity traffic control, sales and management departments.
One of the microphones is supended from a movable boom. With the exception of one wooden desk, all desks in the office, control room, and studios are gray metal with matching green leather chairs, and gray folding chairs with red leather seats.
Prof. Dixon's new office is Room 222, which opens into the hall and connects with the studios. Studio walls and ceilings are of acoustical tile, and floors are gray-carpeted. The equipment includes two turn-tables, four RCA microphones for specific jobs, two professional tape recorders, a sound truck, an all-wave radio receiver, many amplifiers, and a console or master control mechanism.
Two large electric clocks, three file cabinets, two typewriters and two script stands complete the list of major equipment. The Lang-Worth transcription library of music and sound effects has been purchased and will provide more than 5,000 records. Studio phone is KU 483.
YOU MIGHT LIKE THIS RECORD -Eileen Foley, journalism senior, and news and special events editor, takes out a record from the Lang-Worth Transcription library as she helps out the production department. Until the station personnel is completely organized staff members jobs will overlap.
. AND OVER THERE IS—Dave Hicks, college senior and KDGU business manager, points out his idea of desk arrangements in the station office to Lynn Osborn, station manager, and Mary Kinnane, program manager, both assistant instructors in speech and graduate students.
KDGU Schedule
Program for Monday, Sept. 14
4:00—Station Opening
4:15—Popular Music
4:45—News Roundup
4:50—Popular Music
5:15—Campus News
5:30—Dinner Music
5:55—News
6:00—Music
6:30—Popular Music
7:15—Classical Music
7:45—News
8:00—Simoff
(A similar schedule will be fol-
lowed during the first week o
operation).
The expected increased enrollment this semester will put a pressing need on classrooms and laboratories forcing students to return to Saturday morning classes in the Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday sequence. Classes will not run past 5 p.m. on weekdays and noon hour classes will voided as much as possible.
Saturday Classes Return
Kansan Gets New Adviser
Calder M. Pickett, assistant professor of journalism, has been named news adviser for the University Daily Kansan starting with fall publication.
Mr. Pickett was news adviser for the Summer Session Kansan and was editorial adviser last year. He will continue in that position also.
Mr. Pickett succeeds Victor J. Danilov, Kansan news adviser for two years, who is now supervisor of the public information service of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
Mr. Pickett was formerly on the faculties of Utah State Agricultural college and the University of Denver. He has worked on the Salt Lake Tribune, Desert News (Salt Lake City), radio station KLZ in Denver, and the Topeka Daily Capital.
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