04
Sep
2010
Sign the petition to the UH administration
A group of UH alumni is organizing a petition addressed to the UH administration. UH students, alumni, faculty and staff are especially encouraged to sign, but signatures are welcome from everyone who cares about KTRU and wants to share their opinion with the UH administration. Sign the petition.
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I believe anyone can sign this, not just those affiliated with UH.
Everyone who wants to share their opinion with the UH administration is encouraged to sign this petition.
We’re certainly hoping to get a lot of signatures from UH students and alumni. But since UH is a public university (also, we’re talking about the public airwaves), we felt it was important that the petition be open to everyone.
So if you care about KTRU – regardless of whether or not you have a UH affiliation, and even if you’ve already signed the Rice petition – please considering signing this petition to the UH administration.
I am a long time supporter of KUHF. I have an HD radio and listen to all 3 stations. I am a professional musician and an educator. I have performed on the Front Row and discussed the possibility of creating a childrens’ music program at KUHF with KUHF staff. I am upset and repulsed by the move by KUHF to expand its broadcast, and to takeover KTRU. Next time there is a fundraiser at KUHF I will be sure to call in and say I AM NOT CONTRIBUTING. KUHF now offers Houston 24 hour news and 24 hour classical music. We do not need more of this. We need KTRU, independent, commercial free, politically neutral, student run radio. The move by KUHF is another step in national media conglomeration. In this, NPR is no different than other media mogels.
I would like to see UH say to Rice – “Keep KTRU on the air. It is the ONLY station of its kind in this, the 4th largest city in the U.S. Houston says it wants to be a cutting edge city. Without a station like KTRU, Houston cannot be a cutting edge city. This is bad for U of H. It is bad for Rice, and most of all it is bad for Houston.”
My wife and I are long time supporters of KUHF. I am a writer and a professional educator. Both my wife and are deeply dismayed with the mismanagement of KUHF. We simply do not need 24 hours of digital snipetts of classical music to work by, or Dead Dalton flogging yet another trip to Europe for retirees…certainly not at the expense of KTRU. Clearly if you can afford to purchase competitors, KUHF is neither community based, nor non profit and cearly no longer in need of my family’s support.
KTRU has been a source of entertainment and happiness for my friends and I for years. It’s “Play what we want” attitude has made hours of traffic seem like minutes, and long road trips pleasurable.
I have enjoyed ktru since I moved to Houston back in 1995. Its introduced me to an array of artists that I would likely have never been exposed to. It also, gives me the impression (and I would imagine other potential students as well) that the university that sponsors it has an interesting culture that I would want to be a part of. I think students look at many aspects of a university and certainly the culture is a big factor.
I grew up in H-town, elementary thru high school. KTRU was always the soundtrack to my youth.
I now am a 12 year resident of Venice Beach, Ca known as DJ BusRider & find myself constantly logging in to KTRU thru I-tunes to still hear the Houston indie sound.
This station is amazing!
Killer DJ’s!!! Raise up & Respect!
It would be a shame to let this station go off air!!
An nderhanded, corruption-tainted backroom deal by President Leebron and his ilk. Now we find, that the tower site has issues, there will be formal objections filed, and that the whole, sneaky deal is in question.
Fire Leebron!
I hope this all posts:
The whole operation sounds like a raw deal,
even for both sides. Look, the classical music,
which until this, has enjoyed the high fidelity
of the powerful 88.7 station will get demoted, the
eclectic format of KTRU gets whacked, and the
real winner here is the news-blather of NPR, which
will use the mega-power of 88.7 to bore us to tears.
I was buying power steering fluid at autozone
the last time I listened to anything on internet
radio. Let’s be clear here; internet radio is not
any kind of radio, that’s a misnomer. What it is,
IS a landline connection through a pay service!
It definitely is not free, over the air radio!
One can’t listen to that whilst driving in one’s car.
Calling an internet audio stream radio, is like calling
a series of illustrated web pages a comic book.
The content may be the same, but the requirements
of the two different processes, for interacting with
that content are completely different.
I have been a KTRU fan since about third grade,
some time in the mid-80’s, and it’s not always my
cup of tea, but I always thought it would be there.
I expected it to be there when I produced some
eclectic stuff, I hoped they would play it on the
local show. If KTRU gets crammed into an internet
only format, it will have gone out of existence for
me, unless you are offering to buy me a newer
computer.
Are both sides reeeealy sure that there isn’t a little
sports-talk AM radio station that would be high
enough fidelity to carry the human voice, which is
currently just a repeater for another station
somewhere else on the dial? How many of the
same ESPN network stations, in the
same area, playing the same audio feed
simultaneously do we really need?
You might not realize that KTRU may be
advertising that a research university with such
an open-minded and innovative student body,
that could produce this unique format, might also
be innovative and open-minded to new methods
of production of carbon nanotubules, and their
application.
OH, dang, I failed to mention that KUHF (classical)
and KTRU (eclectic)should stay where they are,
with NPR becoming YET ANOTHER news-talk station
on the AM band.
Please don’t take away the only radio station I listen to, I don’t want to have to get on my computer to hear all the creative music I love and can only hear on this station. So PLEASE DO NOT SELL KTRU!