20
Aug
2010
Houston Press: KTRU Meeting Confronts Long Odds Of Blocking Frequency’s Sale
An organized protest has been planned for 2 p.m. this Sunday at Willy’s statue – aka Rice founder William Marsh Rice – on the Rice campus. A street team was formed to distribute flyers as well as circulate copies of the petition found on the savektru.org website.
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Maybe this is obvious, maybe this has been pointed out by someone else before. But — the only way anyone is going to save ktru is by coming up with $10 million+ dollars to outbid UH, buy ktru yourselves, and set up a nonprofit to own the frequency and transmitter.
Has anyone gone down a list of former ktru dj’s to see whether any of them have the chops to make a sizable donation? Has anyone talked to Mike Stude, the original donor of the transmitter and a member of the Brown family? Look around, Rice has at least four buildings or halls named after the Browns, and the family has an abiding interest in the arts.
Perhaps my time in the professional fundraising world has made me biased, but a large infusion of cash seems like the only way to fight this situation. Otherwise, I have to agree with Tag Borland: “Your frequency is gone.”
Alice Pavlak
Will Rice ’01