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Texas Tech keepts KTXT radio alive, but format to change

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EggsOverEasy87

For those that have been following the KTXT shut-down, here is an article that is in the AJ today. I thought this was worth sharing on here.

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/012409/loc_380938924.shtml

I'm glad Derrick is willing to try to accommodate students to give them the same opportunity I had with KTXT. If we don't get the format back, at least Derrick is trying to work with the administration so students can still have the opportunity to learn more about broadcasting.
 
Best wishes to Derrick Ginter for preserving what KTXT shoud be: A broadcast training ground. Classical Jazz might be too adult a format, but if that is what it takes, that's fine with me.

To put in perspective, SUNY in Albany broadcasts a Top 40 format on their station...
 
It would be nice if they could turn it into a community station like 89.3 KNON here in the DFW:
www.knon.org
 
Thanks Eggs and Garrett!

Jazz is about our only option right now- we have a sizeable library of it on hand and there's lots of potential for partnering with the school of music on Jazz matters.

Our goal is to appeal to the community of Lubbock, not necessarily the Texas Tech student body, which means we'll try many different things for the format in the months ahead. We must connect with potential donors if we're to make it work.

We won't receive any student services funding for it, so there's no incentive to program specifically for students, but again, we're shooting for much broader appeal than the Alternative format and readily have Jazz available to do that. Whether Jazz can create that appeal is debatable, but we're rather limited on what we can do with it right now.

I joked that if I had to, I'd take a CD player over to the transmitter site and put Polka music on 88.1 if that met the FCC criteria for getting KTXT back up and running. On a more serious note, we're under more stringent financial constraints than Student Media was with KTXT, so programming it is a much more difficult prospect than most realize.

Our main problem now is the studio-transmitter link. It's currently pointed at student media and will require a few thousand bucks to re-link to our studio location. One of the many tasks I have to accomplish is removing all of the coax from the old KTXT studios running down to the basement of Mass Comm. We'll then have to hire a tower crew to realign the STL antennae- work that's not cheap by the way. I hope to have all of that done by the end of March, but my current budget and work schedule is way too crazy right now to even think about it.

We have 8 Mass Comm interns at KOHM this term. It's crazy cramped right now. I hope to utilize KTXT in that regard once we can develop the resources and obtain more space for it.

Nothing new about KTXT is going to happen right away.
 
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