[BC] BC] FCC shuts UW-Parkside radio station for rocking without license

[Mark Humphrey]

Yes, this is another problem faced by many educational institutions,
particularly those that are publicly-funded.  Between the high rate of
faculty turnover, multiple layers of bureaucracy, and budgetary
policies, it's often difficult for anything to get approved quickly,
so many good opportunities are missed.

When I worked for WRTI at Temple University, a public institution, it
helped that our VP for Administration (who was responsible for
oversight of the station, rather than the School of Communications)
was a good friend and next-door neighbor of Ragan Henry, successful
former owner of several radio and TV stations; therefore, he
understood the value of a broadcast license.   So over 20 years ago,
when I proposed filing for a power increase and extending our service
area with translators,  I didn't encounter any resistance.  If Temple
had waited 10 or 15 more years, I doubt the station would have had
another chance.

Mark

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Tom Taggart <tpt at literock93r.com> wrote:
>
> Back during the low power window did an app. for a liberal arts college.
> A year or so later, a second filing was needed, but the fellow who ran
> that department had left, and the new department head was a 60's/70's
> era radical who remembered HIS college radio days & was now scared to
> death the students would go of the deep end like he did. So he nixed
> the whole project.