(Fwd) RE:KUOIchanges

["Frederick Cunningham" <cunn9727@novell.uidaho.edu>]

Forwarded message:
From:     Self <cunn9727.67.Students.Moscow.ui>
To: vision20/20@moscow.com
Subject: RE:KUOIchanges
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:49:26 -0800

<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Century Gothic</param>     One thing that Mr. Hoffman left out of his well written 
letter is that KUOI is not only a student station.  Although 
most of KUOI's budget comes from the University, some 
additional and indispensable funding also comes from local 
businesses in the form of underwriting.  In addition, KUOI's 
mission statement says that the station is for students <italic>and</italic> 
community.  KUOI is the only on-air resource for Pacifica 
Network News within 300 miles of our area, and up until last 
week, KUOI offered a very professional local news show 
produced by Leigh Robartes.  

     Many of the DJs at KUOI are not students, but community 
members, and Mr. Robartes is one of them.  As mentioned 
before, Moscow did have a community (NPR) station at 
one time, but the market for both KUOI and KUID didn't 
seem to be sufficient.  Right now KUOI is closer to being our 
community radio station than anything else we have.   It is 
important to me that moscow have as many alternative 
and hopefully independant news sources as we can fit, and 
Leigh Robartes' show is one this community doesn't 
necessarily need to lose.

     And by the way, although most of KUOI's music shows 
sound amatuer (because they are), with over 50,000 titles, 
KUOI has been estimated to own the largest music library in 
the Northwest U.S.  Keep listening, and if you have the time, 
get involved.


Fred Cunningham

KUOI DJ and former Staff member




Frederick R. Cunningham
cunn9727@novell.uidaho.edu