4C THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ON THE HILL
MONDAY,AUGUST 16,2004
Experience college radio with student-run KJHK
By John Sheirman
jsheirman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
One hundred fifty KU students work 24/7 to ensure that you can hear music most radio stations won't play.
Student-run KJHK, 90.7 FM, has something for everyone, according to station manager Matt Beat, Augusta senior. The station plays contemporary rock, blues, punk rock, reggae, jazz, classic rock of the '60s and '70s, indie pop and more.
"We pretty much have every genre covered except classical and country." Beat said. "We even have a bluegrass show."
Beat said most of the music the station played would not be heard on any other station in the Lawrence area. It includes underground, local musicians and albums that are not from major labels. He said KJHK's closest com-
pettition would be The Buzz, 96.5.
KRBZ-FM, or 97.3 The Planet.
KJHK's mission statement reads as follows; "KJHK is a diverse, student-run radio station devoted to producing cutting-edge, professional programming for the KU and Lawrence community."
Heat said most of the station's listeners were students, but shows like Jazz in the Morning, 6 to 9 a.m. weekdays, attracted an older crowd as well. The station began operating in 1975, and was the first college radio station to broadcast continuously on the Internet.
Natalie Yeh, Topeka fifth-year senior, has been a DJ at KJHK for "a while." She said DJs were required to play some songs from the station's rotational list, but aside from that, they could play whatever they wanted.
"I play a lot more mellow stuff, more electronically-oriented," she said. "I will play older stuff, but more often my stuff is contemporary."
Yeh said she saw her audience as people in their early to late 20s — "the kind of people who would appreciate a non-commercial radio station."
KJHK also broadcasts news at 7, 8, and 9 a.m. and again at 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. News covers sports, including broadcast all home football games on Saturdays, and carries talk shows on subjects such as culture and politics. It has also hosted guests such as U. S. Representative Dennis Moore (D-Kan.) and U. S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.).
Beat is positive about JKH and its place in the radio market.
no place. "In my opinion, radio isn't what it used to be. KJHK gives hope. We take requests. We give local bands a chance to be heard," he said. "It's just stuff that most people haven't heard."
Courtney Kuhien/KANSAN
Phil Torpey, Iowa City senior, finishes his shift on KJHK's show Breakfast For Beat Lovers. Torpey has worked for the student radio station for one year and said he liked exposing listeners to music that they would not normally hear.
- Edited by Erik Johnson
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