Sign our petition
“I am against the sale of KTRU’s transmitter and FCC license. I support KTRU’s right to broadcast on 91.7 FM.”
Save KTRU petition at thepetitionsite.com
Sign the petition to the University of Houston administration
“I am against the sale of KTRU’s transmitter and FCC license. I support KTRU’s right to broadcast on 91.7 FM.”
Save KTRU petition at thepetitionsite.com
Sign the petition to the University of Houston administration
The secrecy of this sale and the indifference of the Rice and UH presidents to student and community involvement demands community activism. No monies should be contributed to either institution based on the fact that ONLY money is apparently valued without that troubling little thing called “your opinion”. Keep both to yourself until both are of equal value.
I love NPR but most NPR stations do not have anywhere near the diversity of programming that KTRU has now. Mostly what you’ll hear is news. The administration does not only their student body but the whole community a disservice by selling KTRU.
KTRU isn’t just an invaluable audio experience – it’s also been training students for generations in public relations, operations management, and broadcasting/broadcast journalism. This is a liquidation sale to make Leebron’s budget look prettier, pure and simple – students and community be damned.
I will not be in Houston to get the petition to you.
If there’s anyway to put me on the list, go right ahead.
My boyfriend and me love KTRU and would be so depressed if UofH got a hold of it.
It’s the ONLY decent Houston radio station.
KTRU IS GIVING ME OPPORTUNITIES PLEASE DONT LET ME LOOSE MY DREAM.
This is the only last real radio station in the houston area. Please dont sell it!
Is there a mailing address coming shortly? As an MD at the radio station of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, I want to make sure all of our staff signs a petition.
I came from Texas and moved to Minnesota because radio was thriving up here. We cannot lose any more stations in the Lone Star State- it’s getting ridiculous!
You need an on line petition – would be easier an better. they are easy to set up and are saved in a database.
Insist that a right for digital channel 2 or 3 be leased back to Rice in perpetuity. Or the Student Body. Then jam on my music loving friends.
The digital channels behind the main TV channels are leased out to third parties today. There is a retail value there that is a whole lot less than $10.8 million.
Then push out the signal onto the internet. Music lovers can get a digital radio, or tap the tunes via the internet.
Good luck to you guys!
Regards, An Aggie that pushed out the “Tuesday Blues Fix” on ‘cable-only’ KANM in the late 80’s.
Do you have an address for out of towners to use yet?
I am a New Orleans resident who visits Houston frequently. As a college student, I was on staff at Tulane’s radio station, WTUL for years. I highly value college radio for what it does for the campus AND the community. Please Rice administration, don’t doom this valuable asset to oblivion!
online petition is up now, sign it!
Save KTRU. It is a precious one of a kind institution and asset. And it is an important part of what makes Rice great singular and cool. I hope Rice doesn’t need the money that desperately, but if it does, find another way to get the money. KTRU is one of Houston’s very
very best things. Ed Carr
Has anyone else had problems signing the online petition? I’ve tried dozens of times & every time, I’m told that they can’t process my signature & I should try again later. Grrr…
At any rate, there’s a stack of signatures making its way in the mail to y’all right now from DJs at the University of Massachusetts radio station. Everyone was really sympathetic to what’s going on down in Houston.
The football team is loosing 10 millions a year, Leeborn is selling an asset that was built by students and a transmitter that donated to Rice.
I can’t live without this station. It is amazing.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHO THIS PETITION IS GOING TO?
i just want to get my facts straight. is it addressed to Leebron? The FCC? the Rice administration at large?
long time listener
Sometimes, the tradition of the university should supersede the wallet.
i really hope they dont get rid of ktru!
its my favorite station to listen to while im at work driving delivering pizza!!
i have found so much new music thanks to this station, that i would have never found any where else!
thank you!
KTRU!!! my only hope for a.m/f.m radio. anything clear channel is over played and tired. KTRU has always been the station to be on my dial. don’t do it!!!!!
“The last hope for radio,” is and will always be the association I will have with KTRU. Sometimes, when coming home from a shitty ass place with some shitty ass people, all that has saved me from killing myself is KTRU. I am not sure how much I am kidding… If any administrator allows this sale to happen, just know that you can NEVER judge ANY person in power for being greedy, barbaric, or negligent. This goes to any administrator who support this repulsive decision… FUCK YOU.
I just recently returned to Houston, and the first thing I did was tune into 91.7 KTRU. Needless to say, I was angry to find out that it was being taken off the airwaves. It’s a shame that such an epic alternative, ecliptic mix of music such as KTRU has to be taken down by some white collar up-tight administrator who hasn’t had his ear to the street since they were paved. Honestly, I don’t even listen to other radio stations due to the horrific music and pretentious commercials. But if listening to pretentious commercials means KTRU can stay on, so be it. Just please don’t take away my music man.
I heard about the planned changes to the structure of the station and wanted to humbly register my opinion that if rice radio was to undergo such a huge turn around it would be noticeably missed here in the UK.
The value that is assigned to stations such as this that actively takes part in the promotion and education of music should be noted, that for many around the world who suffer the daily onslaught of a polluted medium when it comes to music in the mainstream, there are still groups out there who represent what would otherwise be the collective mainstream style or broadcast if it weren’t for the generalized misunderstanding of what people want, this being the driving force behind music in the media today. But then it’s not what people want is it, it’s what can be sold to people who don’t care to listen to music.
Here in the UK I’ve spent my life growing up with music being delivered without asking for it, shoehorned into a headless stereotype I can only attribute some of my regrets in life to what I missed in music, as a late bloomer I strive to appreciate worthwhile music and in finding rice radio in it’s current form I have found something very special which by chance or good fortune I see as a gift.
Don’t touch that dial!
Please do not sell ktru. I love this station and it will break my heart if you sell it
A great source of creative programing that serves local artists cant be thrown away just like that!
The Vinyl Frontier underground hip hop show is the best hip hop show on houston radio. In fact they should be given their own day on ktru. The jazz, funk , reggea, ska, and blues are what we hope to hear when i tune in to ktru.
My comment would include a reasonable question to the administration. The president of Rice claims that the future of over the air broadcasting is on the decline. Therefore it would seem like he is willing to sell and the U o H is willing to buy a 9 + million dollars vanishing act. So we then have to address the question, how long before over the air broadcasting vanishes? Well either way its a weak case because if it is a long time it is disingenuine to the students and listeners to make this statement and if its not going to be here for long it would seem like a bad decision for the U o H. Either way it is unfortunate that there couldn’t be one little radio station in the world that could be left alone and could signal a principle seldom seem in this world, that money doesn’t always have to win. Then we could retain this unusual and delightful Contemporary Museum of Music.
ktru is the only good station!!!!!
Please keep KTRU on the air. Ive been listening for many years and love it.
Keep KTRU on the air. We need academic broadcasting to give us truly un-biased reporting and free forms of expression without the encumbrance of corporate manipulation.
Phil Frigo
love ktru–been listening for years-rely on it for eclectic music & general survival in montgomrey county! don’t go–hate mainstream radio….$$ rules in this land of the lost…
Please keep ktru the same! I have been listening to this fantastic station my whole life, and cannot think of any station with such unique and inspiring programming anywhere in the U.S.
Radio stations like KTRU need to be here! They are inspiring and rare and eclectic and entertaining in a way that those other normal radio stations are not. They can’t be! We need KTRU to be there for us. For now, and for the future. I can’t stress this enough!
The indirect contribution to the overall economy that the operation of a radio station like KTRU makes is incalculable. Airplay of material by musicians that are not even considered bt the mainstream media leads to exposure that furthers sales of their music, with the attendant benefit to many sectors of the economy. I cannot even count the number of CDs and downloads that I have purchased because I heard it on KTRU. In my estimation, these purchases have benefited the musicians, the people who package the items, the shipping materials industry, the USPS, and perhaps many more. Keeping KTRU alive is a win-win for all.