Tuesday, September 30, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A-Page 5
KJHK plans to extend range
By Jeremy M. Doherty Special to the Kansan
KJHJ, the 20-year-old student-operated radio station of the University of Kansas, wants to shake its college radio image by targeting listeners along the Kansas/Missouri state line.
Pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission, the station's current 100-watt status will increase to 3,500 watts in late October, Gary Hawke, KJHK general manager, said.
The station's enhanced signal will cover a radius of approximately 60 miles, reaching listeners in Topeka, Johnson County, and Kansas City. Kan, he said.
The move coincides with the Sept. 19 switch by Kansas City-based KYYS to an alternative format, joining a crowded field of modern rock stations.
Although KJHK does play its share of alternative music, it has no plans to alter its current format, Kelly Corcoran, music director, said.
"What with KY-102 going alternative now, there'd be no reason for us to play only that type of music," Corcoran said. "We'll need to shoot for a wider audience because we just can't compete with something like that."
The upgrade will cost $50,000 for the installation of a new antenna and transmitter. Hawke said.
The station will continue to offer an assortment of jazz, electronic and folk music as well as continued coverage of campus news and sports.
KJHK receives funding as a student organization and does not sell airtime.
Staff members are optimistic that the new, improved KJHK could reach a potential of 1,000,000 listeners as compared with its current audience of 100,000.
Cocoran said that high ratings were not as important as getting people to view the station as a media outlet.
Move over tradition,pop rock is in
By Rachelle Detweiler
rdtewiler@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
If you search the air waves for bands like the Wallflowers and Green Day, the search just got one station easier. And for the next two weeks, you won't even have to listen to disc jockes.
The staff of KYYS-FM 102 (KY102) was dropped on Sept. 18 in a programming switch from traditional rock to alternative pop rock by the new station owner American Radio Systems.
The change was in response to KY102's ratings consistently lagging behind KQRC-FM(The Rock) and KCFX-FM (The Fox), said Herdon Hasty, vice president and general manger of the new station: The Zone.
He doesn't expect competition with other alternative stations to
be a problem.
Hasty said that while listeners had responded positively to the change in music, they were disappointed with the loss of long-time radio personalities.
Last Tuesday, KQRC and KCFX offered an hour-long tribute to the former KY102 personalities.
"The music will be the star of the new format," Hasty said. "The guys we had weren't right for the format. There's a very specific mentality that we want of our personalities."
With the proposed format, the voices of the new DJs will fade into the background, making music the station's main focus. Hasty said.
The station is currently operating without DJs, and until the company hires jockeys, computers control the CDs. Hasty said he expected a final decision concerning employment in the next two weeks.
Alt-rock radio
Other stations currently crowding the alternative airwaves.
KMXV-FM (93.3)
KCCX-FM (107.3)
KCHZ-FM (95.7)
KLZR-FM (105.9)
Lawrence radio station KLZRFM officials have noted The Zone's entry into alternative rock.
"It's a bigger part of my job now to sort through what's truly important to the audience," said Rodger "The Dodger," program director for KLZ-RF (The Lazer).
But within the next year, he said he expected some alternative stations to switch formats or no longer be broadcasting.
Reconstruction of Diana's fatal accident helps investigators search for answers
The Associated Press
Police closed off traffic and forced dozens of journalists and camera people away from the mouth of the tunnel along the Seine River, where the Mercedes crashed into a cement pillar in the early-morning hours of Aug. 31.
PARIS — Investigators hauled Princess Diana's wrecked Mercedes back to the tunnel where she was killed in an apparent attempt to reconstruct the fatal accident yesterday.
About an hour later, a flatbed truck arrived with the wrecked vehicle on top, wrapped in dark green plastic, and slowly backed into the tunnel.
Diana: French police reconstructing fatal crash
Cars also were sent into the tunnel from the opposite direction, apparently to see what witnesses could have made out from that vantage point.
Before that, three cars were driven at several-minute intervals into the tunnel as investigators from the elite Criminal Brigade police unit watched carefully.
Police set up a tripod near the entrance with an engineering tool that measures distance and trajectory. They also examined marks on the tunnel's wall.
Judge Herve Stephan, one of two judges heading the probe, was reportedly at the scene, along with a top prosecutor in the case, Maud Coujard. Stephan already
has made one fact-finding trip to the tunnel.
Reconstructions are typically used by French authorities to resolve inconsistencies in testimony and test various theories.
Police are looking into the possibility a second car was involved in the crash. They are searching for the owner of a small car, probably a Fiat Uno, that may have sidewiped the Mercedes, causing it to veer out of control.
In an effort to keep onlookers and journalists away, police closed off sidewalks near the tunnel yesterday evening, parked large trucks to block the view and even searched nearby bushes to make sure no one was watching.
The approach to the tunnel was blocked off all the way back to the Place de la Concorde — not far from the Ritz Hotel, where the Mercedes began its fateful journey. Traffic was backed up on an adjoining road, and some cars slowed down to watch the operation — causing at least one minor collision. No one was hurt.
Investigators have been focusing on excessive speed and the blood-alcohol level of the driver, Henri Paul, as likely causes of the crash. Paul, who was legally drunk at the time, was killed along with Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Faved.
But they also have been looking at the roles of nine photographers and one press motorcyclist who were tailing the Mercedes that night. All ten are under formal investigation for manslaughter and failure to assist people in danger, but they have not been formally charged.
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