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Carrier Current Radio

Steel Nerves said:
But while it lasted, KACK (and KCOU) could boast of being probably the only student station in the world to have an actual correspondent at the state capital (Richard Schlessinger, later of CBS News, who as part of his internship in Jefferson City, would file stories of interest to the Mizzou and Boone County community) and its own professional weathercaster (Al Mitleider, who also did weekend weather at KOMU as an undergraduate, and went on to run his own meteorological company.)
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We continued the meteorological tradition at KCOU. Mike Placke, who later went to KMBC-TV in Kansas City, is one name I remember. There were other folks, too.

We took news (and possibly ourselves) very seriously at KCOU.

I don’t know if you’ve seen their present space, in the basement of the student center (which absorbed Brady Commons). It’s a much smaller space than the Pershing Hall space and I don’t think they have the square footage for a newsroom there. The Maneater is down there, too.

I’ll be in Columbia next month; whenever there, I try to give KCOU a listen. I now find it hard to fathom sometimes, but I have to remember that I’m half a century older than the target audience.
 
@Steel Nerves - a friend in Columbia did some research and found that carrier-current KACK was discontinued in September 1974, with the residence halls association choosing to concentrate on KCOU(FM).
 
Mark Roberts said:
@Steel Nerves - a friend in Columbia did some research and found that carrier-current KACK was discontinued in September 1974, with the residence halls association choosing to concentrate on KCOU(FM).
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It outlasted me, then. Although I'm a little surprised they kept it in operation over the summer. Most of the dorms were closed as the on-campus population dropped significantly.
 


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