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Purdue...WBAA am and fm, licenses cancelled!!!

Fcc.gov reports the license for WBAA-FM expired in 2004. Seems overdue to me.
 
My source for this news comes directly from the FCC in the FCC Daily Digest foryesterday. So, is this an error based on Purdue bureaucracy, or like Butler University, are theyjust ready to dump radio?
 
So Who's job is it to make sure that the license posted in the control room is valid?1. The GM2. The Chief Engineer.3. The operaters who are on the air.4 The university officials responsible for the license.5. The law firm paid to watch over the license.6. All the above.The answer is 6. They really dropped the ball! Even if Purdue did try to file their license, they should have been checking on it's status. They should have been calling the FCC before it expired. Someone at WBAA should have caught this before the FCC did 2 years later. "2 years of unlicensed operation" says the FCC. Wow!Purdue actually has a history of missing FCC deadlines. When they got their FM CP and failed to request their call letters from the FCC on time, the FCC gave them WFUC. Check the call sign database No joke! But the FCC was laughing..
 
As a Purdue alum, I am not happy with the way they run things at WBAA. They have two stations. One should be student run, giving the students a chance to work in real radio before graduating.Maybe this will be a wake up call to change things there.Yeah, right!
 
Great idea, but it might not be practical.I'm a casual observer, but wasn't the FM a class gift so it has to stay classical?Also, if they mess with Morning Edition, ATC, Rehm and others on the AM the profs at the university would likely riot. (as they would in any university town with an NPR talk affiliate)Didn't the stations make a huge equipment contribution to Purdue Student Radio in the hopes of sparking radio interest among students outside the residence halls? Beyond some inital publicity through the Associated Press during the Daniels-Kernan campaign has anybody heard a thing about PSR? Does it still exist? (I seem to recall something about an equipment donation in that AP article a few years ago, but I could be wrong.)And maybe it's me, but my impression from the newspaper article is that it's all a misunderstanding and will likely be resolved soon. Heck, even the FCC guy is quoted as saying they don't have enough resources to keep up with all this stuff....I guess the feds are like the majority of people at radio stations..overworked and understaffed and possibly a little arrogant ;)So it is possilbe WBAA filed on time and it fell through the cracks of the great electronic abyss on its way to DC.
radio2100 said:
As a Purdue alum, I am not happy with the way they run things at WBAA. They have two stations. One should be student run, giving the students a chance to work in real radio before graduating.Maybe this will be a wake up call to change things there.Yeah, right!
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renlaff said:
Didn't the stations make a huge equipment contribution to Purdue Student Radio in the hopes of sparking radio interest among students outside the residence halls? Beyond some inital publicity through the Associated Press during the Daniels-Kernan campaign has anybody heard a thing about PSR? Does it still exist? (I seem to recall something about an equipment donation in that AP article a few years ago, but I could be wrong.)
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The WBAA stations donated an old console and, I think, some other equipment for Purdue Student Radio. Speaking of PSR, I'd like to know some more information about it, myself. Everytime I'm near Krannert (where their transmitter is supposed to be), I flip on 1610AM to see if the station is on the air, but it's nothing but static. I haven't checked for months so it could be on. Then again, with a coverage area of about a mile and the fact that it's on the AM dial, it's not really going to spark the attention of many around campus let alone throughout the Lafayette-West Lafayette area.

Like radio2100 said, I would also love to see greater student involvement with the full-power Purdue stations, whether it's on 101.3, 920, or if Purdue purchases another FM (or AM) frequency. The University of Illinois has WPGU, a student-operated commercial FM, and I would think that such a station at Purdue would better prepare telecommunications students for real world experience in radio as opposed to doing the public radio thing (like PSR) or reading the news and board-oping on the WBAAs. Then again, Purdue doesn't really have much to offer on the radio side of their telecommunications program so the probability of the trustees or station management to approve such a measure is null.

As for WBAA's license problems, the stations are still on the air and will probably remain so until the FCC forces them to shut down. I'm sure 920 and 101.3 will be okay, but it's still a sad situation. Both stations are by far the best sounding stations in the Lafayette market and have made remarkable commitments to the community. I'd be a shame to see them have to shut down if it comes down to it.
 
this is really old news folks this happened back in the summer some time and has all been cleared up now WBAA and there workers are innocent as can be it was the fcc that errored. And imagine that maybe their not so god like as every one always says they are!
 
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