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KTRU agreement wtih KPFT to keep KTRU on air on KPFT's digital signal

I'm really at a loss to understand the attitude of these spoiled trust-fund baby brats who won't stop banging their rattles on the table demanding their KTRU.

The KTRU signal does good to reach the city limits, and KPFT's HD2 channel will barely get them outside the Loop 610. Rice is doing them an incredible favor by allowing them to continue in existence on the Internet, which will make them accessible by a worldwide audience.

Can't they see how much better off they will be? Apparently not.
 
stan said:
The fight for KTRU will evidently continue, regardless of this HD2 diversion.
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It will continue until the FCC approves the sale; a day that is coming soon. The arguments of the "Save KTRU" crowd are, ultimately, irrelevant. Rice University owns the station, not the students. Willing seller. Willing buyer. The Rice students are not "entitled" to KTRU on FM, despite what the spoiled brats say.

The adults at the FCC will easily see through all this nonsense.
 
FWIW... Rice Radio began programming on KPFT HD-2, as of Monday AM. Wonder if the two people with HD radios have picked up on it yet?
 
mrbeasley said:
FWIW... Rice Radio began programming on KPFT HD-2, as of Monday AM. Wonder if the two people with HD radios have picked up on it yet?
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They would go along with the two people who listen to it in analog on 91.7. ;D :D
 
I find it funny people keep repeating this assertion they can't prove. While college stations won't be pulling Kiss FM ratings, I doubt the listenership is as small as you would think for Rice Radio.
 
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-11-695A1.pdf

"We find that neither the Petitioners nor the Objectors have raised a substantial
and material question of fact warranting further inquiry. We further find that grant of the Applications is
consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, that the
Petition to Deny filed by Friends of KTRU IS DENIED, the Informal Objections submitted by Janet
Greenberg, Karen Bush, and William McGuinness, IV ARE DENIED, and that the applications for approval
to assign the license for NCE Station KTRU(FM), Houston, Texas (BALED-20101029ACX) and FM
Translator Station K218DA, Houston, Texas (File No. BALFT-20101029ACY) from William Marsh Rice
University to University of Houston System ARE GRANTED."
 
TheBigA said:
That takes care of the legalities. How much you want to bet the petitioners will continue?
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It's done. Any further action by the "Save KTRU" crowd is pointless. I'm sure their pro bono lawyers, if they are being honest, will tell them that.

I'm going to post a new thread since this is major news.
 
I hope they will channel their energies in putting on a great online station. I'd vent that anger and frustration toward something where I could affect the outcome.
 
JimmyJames said:
I find it funny people keep repeating this assertion they can't prove. While college stations won't be pulling Kiss FM ratings, I doubt the listenership is as small as you would think for Rice Radio.
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Almost every college station being run as a true college/freeform/community station is doing terrible under PPM. Even in cases where a college station will have a full-market signal, ratings seem to top out at 0.2.

Obviously, these stations aren't in the ratings business. But when a college has to cut something, and there's easily accessible statistics that say a station is one of the least-listened-to in the market, it doesn't reflect well.
 
I doubt most of the people who would listen to a station like KTRU are PPM panelists. Have you read the behind the scenes stories of some of the PPM panelists? Why they agree to be on it and what they listen to?

You're not going to find the audiences of college and to a lesser degree some AAAs and Rock outlets inclined to even carry the meter.
 
JimmyJames said:
I doubt most of the people who would listen to a station like KTRU are PPM panelists. Have you read the behind the scenes stories of some of the PPM panelists? Why they agree to be on it and what they listen to?

You're not going to find the audiences of college and to a lesser degree some AAAs and Rock outlets inclined to even carry the meter.
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The day that the sale was announced, this one comment on Twitter really stuck with me:

"I like the idea of KTRU, I just don't like to listen to it."

When was the last time that you listened to the station longer than 15 minutes? Just when you think you can leave it on all day, they put on a recording of tree frogs or static. I'm sure that the volunteer in the studio and his or her friends are having a great time, but the downside of a freeform station is that without any rules the music never flows. The only time I can listen without turning it off is when they automate because those sets are fairly balanced.

A station that truly plays everything is a nice idea, but it's really hard to listen to.
 
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