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Page 3A • Friday, April 25, 2003
istening to the beat of a different station
Students take a break from mainstream music by tuning into campus radio station KANM
By Lauren Romero
THE BATTALION
When Paige Jobe gets tired of mainstream radio, she simply tunes
[n to KANM, Texas A&M’s student radio station.
“KANM provides a fresh perspective to music,” said Jobe, a sen-
dt education major. “I like it because you hear a lot of bands that
|rou can’t hear any other place.”
Scott Towle, KANM’s public relations director and a graduate
jtudent in Mays Business School, describes KANM as the “college
tation of College Station” and the “alternative to alternative. Towle
laid often students are disappointed by the conventional choices
found on the radio.
“Students get a chance to be exposed to music (on KANM) they
ran’t hear anywhere else,” he said.
I KANM is a recognized student organization that plays unsigned
pands. Many artists, such as Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, Dashboard
Confessional and Bowling for Soup were played on KANM before
pitting more prominent radio stations.
Matthew Crawford, the KANM station manager and a senior
pmputer engineering major, said KANM is very different from
bther stations in the area.
“We aren’t focused on ratings or cash flow,” he said. “We are
ocused solely on providing unique and interesting content to A&M
ind the Bryan-College Station community.”
I Crawford said having a student radio station is important to the
\&M community, because it is a resource for unique music. It
Iso provides an opportunity for people interested in becoming
lisc jockeys to get experience without the pressure of commercial
Interests, he said.
Contrary to other radio stations around College Station, the DJs at
kANM are not professionals in the field; they are learning the trade
and are not paid.
I While A&M supports KANM, it is not enough to pay the
bjs. For this reason, funding for the station is one of its main
problems, he said.
“We’ve tried many different things to get funding, from visiting
k&M clubs to writing letters to fonner students,” he said. “We use a
rial-and-error process, but so far have not succeeded. A lot of it is
ust finding the proper channels. “KANM has approximately 75 DJs
each semester.”
Crawford said DJs are selected based upon a combination of the
proposed music selections, availability and experience. Although
[here are 81 time slots available each semester, he said it’s rare that
[he late night and early morning slots get filled.
Because the DJs aren’t being paid and still must find time to
study, they often choose time slots that will work around their school
Schedule, Crawford said.
“If they have a test or project the next day and must miss their
show, they can contact the Programming Office to be excused and
we will arrange for alternate content,” he said.
Mustafa Ahmad, a DJ liaison at KANM, said he picked a time
slot that worked best for him. For Mustafa Ahmad, a DJ liaison at
KANM, said being a DJ is a welcome break from classes.
“I don’t see being a DJ as a responsibility or a burden of some
sort,” he said. “If you’re passionate about something — music in this
case — then playing the music that you love is never something you
dread. Instead, it’s a way to relax.”
Crawford said most of the time he spends at the station is between
classes and after class.
“I’ve leaned how to balance the time I give to the station and the
time I spend on my classes,” he said. “My grades did suffer a little
bit when I first became station manager, but now I know the limits I
need to put on my involvement.”
Towle also said he’s learned to budget his time spent at the station.
“I have to hold office hours for four hours a week,” he said.
“If I don’t have any stuff to do for the radio station, I normally
do homework.”
Because the DJs are still learning, the main qualification for the
DJs is that they have a strong music knowledge, Crawford said.
“Our main concern with the DJs is that they have a good under
standing of the music they are playing and expose our listeners to
new and lesser known artists,” he said.
In addition to the DJs, the officers help keep the station running
by managing finance, promotion, programming, music, equipment
maintenance and other administrative functions.
Towle said the officers all have common goals of increasing
awareness at KANM and ensuring that the listeners are getting quali
ty shows. However, this is hard to do without much funding.
Towle said the DJs have to pay dues each semester, which is the
main source of funding, and it is used to pay bills and other expenses.
“The lack of funding we receive increases our time and effort put
into the station,” he said.
“Even though KANM does not yet have a EM license, it broad
casts through EM cable.”
The station has recently been making improvements in the studio
and making Internet streaming available. Most of KANM’s listeners
now listen on the Internet, Towle said.
DJs sign on to AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger as
KANMDJ so students can make instant requests.
The station gets a lot of positive feedback, even from non-Aggies.
Once, a listener from New Zealand called to say he really liked the
show and listened every week, Towle said.
KANM has also had callers from New Orleans, New York
and Illinois.
Crawford said that in the immediate future KANM would like to
repair the AM signal and upgrade and replace some equipment.
Currently, KANM is running screensavers in the Open Access
ADAM A. KRAZER • THE BATTALION
Travis Ziebro, left, a senior mechanical engineering major, and Matt
Brown,right, a senior anthropology major, host “Dynamic Viscosity,”
a techno music show that airs Thursdays at midnight on KANM.
Labs on campus and putting up posters and flyers for different DJs’
shows. There are also broadcasts outside the MSC, where those
involved with the station give away CDs, shirts and stickers.
The biggest strength of the station, Towle said, is KANM’s officers.
Crawford said that since he has been the station manager, the offi
cers have done many things to improve the station.
“We have moved from the comer of Koldus to the MSC base
ment, improved officer communication and moved most of our
record keeping and administration online,” he said. “Moving our
records online has allowed our listeners to see what our DJs are
playing in near real time and look through our archives to make
instant requests.”
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