Where ALL Voices Are Welcome..or at Least They Should Be
By Jim Bolt (Founder KEDG/KSSU.com, Sacramento State) Do not glance at this article and decide TL;DR. Read it. Read all of it. It’s good for you. I promise. Besides, you…
A Cold War Kid Who Watched (and Listened) As Music Ended the Cold War
By Jim Bolt (Founder KEDG/KSSU.com Sacramento State) I am a cold war kid (no, not from the band). I mean, I grew up during the Cold War. I was a…
College radio is an “opportunity” for those who do it
By Dave SarkiesButler Community College is a small school in El Dorado, Kansas, about 30 miles northeast of Wichita. It's not necessarily somewhere you'd expect to find a cutting-edge college…
Five Things I’ve Learned Doing a College Radio Show
By Dave Sarkies I was recently offered the chance to host a show on a local college radio station. As an avid music listener and college radio fan, I was…
Leadership Lessons from Starting a College Radio Station
By Jim Bolt KSSU (originally KEDG, https://kedg.weebly.com/) was founded at Sacramento State in the spring of 1991. I should know because I am one of the original founders. It just…
College Radio Focus: Sac State Students Refuse to Be Sacked: A Story of Student Radio Startup and Survival in Sacramento
By Dave Sarkies As anyone who's ever been associated with a college radio station can tell you, student-run radio stations typically operate on a shoestring budget and struggle for attention…
College Radio Focus: YOUR MOVE at WMLU
By Dave Sarkies One of the great things about college radio is the variety of programming. Particularly when it comes to music. Tune in for more than a few hours…
Don’t Be Chicken, Punk . . . Scary Ellen Delivers Your Punk Rock Fix
You know how when a chicken’s head is cut off it still runs around for a little while before succumbing to its ultimate demise? Elicits some gory imagery, doesn’t it?…
One morning in college radio : March 6, 1990
(Above: The square in downtown Macomb. I vaguely remember a restaurant there called "Eat," which I am sure is long gone by now.) By Len O'Kelly March 6, 1990 was…