UCLAradio.com
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UCLAradio.com is the student-run college radio station affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles
. It is staffed by UCLA students and staff, owned by the ASUCLA Communications Board, and funded by underwriting revenue and fundraising. The station receives no money from student fees.
John Masline is General Manager of the station, taking over for Brittany Webb in September 2011.
on UCLA's campus as KBRU in 1964. ASUCLA quickly took control of the station and moved it to the back of Ackerman Grand Ballroom in Ackerman Union - into a room that had previously been used as a record-listening lounge for students. ASUCLA broadcast the station via carrier current
at 530 AM, though the call letters and band were changed frequently throughout the station's history (including a switch to low-power FM, as well as use of cable FM). For most of its time as a terrestrial radio station, the station broadcast as KLA. Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) agents disconnected the station's 91.9 FM transmitter in 1999 as it was slightly too powerful to be considered a low-power FM signal. For a short time, the station broadcast solely through cable radio, until its website KLAradio.com was launched in 1999 featuring a SHOUTcast
stream. The URL was switched to UCLAradio.com in 2000.
UCLA's student radio station was never officially licensed as an AM or FM station due to lack of support from university administration. Due to the difficulty of purchasing a band in Los Angeles' overcrowded frequency spectrum, the station is not currently considering purchasing one.
The station has produced programmers and staff for practically every radio station based in the Los Angeles
area, including KCRW
, KROQ-FM
, and Fox Sports Radio
.
music, but station programming usually represents countless other genres as well. Some shows offer talk content ranging from sports to current events to comedy. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings, the station features a two hour News program focused on campus events, politics, entertainment, as well as national and global headlines.
The station's live signal streams on the Internet in both Windows Media Player
and QuickTime
formats. 19 hours each day are programmed live, with the exception of some holidays.
The station also offers a daily podcast, which launched on January 8, 2007. The podcast consists of on-air programming highlights and podcast-only programming covering sports, news and music.
Finally, many members of UCLAradio.com's staff regularly contribute to the station's popular blog, which covers a mélange
of pop culture, politics and miscellania.
Since it is not a terrestrial station, UCLAradio.com is not beholden to the FCC's programming guidelines. However, the station does enforce ASUCLA Student Media's decency standards, which concentrate mainly on avoiding discriminatory content.
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
. It is staffed by UCLA students and staff, owned by the ASUCLA Communications Board, and funded by underwriting revenue and fundraising. The station receives no money from student fees.
John Masline is General Manager of the station, taking over for Brittany Webb in September 2011.
History
Student-run radio at UCLA began in the basement of the Dykstra Hall dormitoryDormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
on UCLA's campus as KBRU in 1964. ASUCLA quickly took control of the station and moved it to the back of Ackerman Grand Ballroom in Ackerman Union - into a room that had previously been used as a record-listening lounge for students. ASUCLA broadcast the station via carrier current
Carrier current
Carrier current is a method of low power AM radio transmission that uses the AC electrical system of a building to propagate a medium frequency, AM signal to a relatively small area, such as a building or a group of buildings...
at 530 AM, though the call letters and band were changed frequently throughout the station's history (including a switch to low-power FM, as well as use of cable FM). For most of its time as a terrestrial radio station, the station broadcast as KLA. Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) agents disconnected the station's 91.9 FM transmitter in 1999 as it was slightly too powerful to be considered a low-power FM signal. For a short time, the station broadcast solely through cable radio, until its website KLAradio.com was launched in 1999 featuring a SHOUTcast
SHOUTcast
SHOUTcast is cross-platform proprietary software for streaming media over the Internet. The software, developed by Nullsoft , allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio "stations"...
stream. The URL was switched to UCLAradio.com in 2000.
UCLA's student radio station was never officially licensed as an AM or FM station due to lack of support from university administration. Due to the difficulty of purchasing a band in Los Angeles' overcrowded frequency spectrum, the station is not currently considering purchasing one.
The station has produced programmers and staff for practically every radio station based in the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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area, including KCRW
KCRW
KCRW is a public radio station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, carrying a mix of National Public Radio news, talk radio and freeform music format. The general manager of KCRW is Jennifer Ferro...
, KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM
KROQ-FM — branded 106.7 KROQ — is a commercial modern rock radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles. The call sign is pronounced "kay rock." It is the flagship station of Loveline hosted by Dr...
, and Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio, abbreviated FSR, is an international radio network consisting of sports talk programming. The network is a service of Premiere Networks...
.
Programming
UCLAradio.com features highly eclectic programming, offering programmers the opportunity to do practically anything with their two-hour blocks of air-time. Many shows focus on indie rockIndie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
music, but station programming usually represents countless other genres as well. Some shows offer talk content ranging from sports to current events to comedy. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings, the station features a two hour News program focused on campus events, politics, entertainment, as well as national and global headlines.
The station's live signal streams on the Internet in both Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...
and QuickTime
QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and...
formats. 19 hours each day are programmed live, with the exception of some holidays.
The station also offers a daily podcast, which launched on January 8, 2007. The podcast consists of on-air programming highlights and podcast-only programming covering sports, news and music.
Finally, many members of UCLAradio.com's staff regularly contribute to the station's popular blog, which covers a mélange
Mélange
In geology, a mélange is a large-scale breccia, a mappable body of rock characterized by a lack of continuous bedding and the inclusion of fragments of rock of all sizes, contained in a fine-grained deformed matrix. The mélange typically consists of a jumble of large blocks of varied lithologies...
of pop culture, politics and miscellania.
Since it is not a terrestrial station, UCLAradio.com is not beholden to the FCC's programming guidelines. However, the station does enforce ASUCLA Student Media's decency standards, which concentrate mainly on avoiding discriminatory content.
External links
- UCLAradio.com - UCLA's student-run radio station.
- Friends of KLA - Alumni club for the radio station.
- "KLA Radio" - A brief article on the station's history during the 1960s.
- http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/10/students_need_to_tune_in_to_uclaradiocom - Article that cites the programs low numbers
- http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2010/09/students_found_drinking_in_ucla_radio_station - Cites controversy of its members