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KAMU-FM offers variety
By Jay Blinderman
Staff Writer
“Listener-supported radio,” is
the KAMU-FM slogan, promoting
the fact that the station is non-com
mercial. It also means the station is
for listeners and not necessarily for
advertisers buying commercial
time.
KAMU-FM is a National Public
Radio station carrying NPR and
American Public Radio programs
in addition to its own program
ming, says station manager Rick
Howard.
In terms of music, Howard says
the station plays classical, jazz,
blue grass, new age and reggae.
Non-musical programs include
news, a dramatic series and infor
mation-based cbmmunity service
broadcasts.
One of the shows listed under the
community and special interest
category is the Parent Talk pro
gram, where two hostesses speak
about the problems encountered
with child rearing.
Other non-musical programs in
clude a poetry reading and an audi-
phile show, which is broadcast live
from satellite for the best possible
sound, Howard says.
But most programs are not
aired live, they are taped so that
they may be played during a spe
cific time slot.
The taping of programs is where
announcers come in. KAMU-FM
does not use disc jockeys, rather the
station uses announcers, both stu
dents and full-time employees, who
tape and load programs in addition
to monitoring the broadcast facili
ties.
The station employs five part-
time students as announcers. How
ard says they are selected on the ba
sis of their knowledge of music and
their ability to work with the sta
tions’ equipment.
“There’s a lot more to being in
the radio business than spinning re
cords,” Howard says.
The students work up a schedule
so that everyone has time to study
for their tests. The schedules also
work so that no one who works un
til 2 a. m. will have to open the next
dav with a 6 a.m. time slot, Rubin
says.
Rhonda Rubin, one of the student
announcers, says her main duties
are mostly mechanical. An
nouncers get to announce on a lim
ited basis, going live to give station
identification and the local weather
reports a couple of times per shift.
Rubin savs her main duties in
clude putting tapes in their proper
place, keeping the equipment clean
and making sure programs get
aired on time. On occasion an an
nouncer has to take network feeds
from satellites, Rubin says.
“Sometimes something goes
wrong and announcers have to take
a make good feed,” Rubin says. A
make up feed is a transmission sent
to replace an earlier transmission
that for some reason was not prop
erly sent or received.
KAMU-FM broadcasts Monday
through Thursday from 6 a.m. to
midnight and on weekends from 6
a.m. until 2 a.m.
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