Tag: KTRU
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College Radio Cuts: More Women’s Programming at KTRU Rice University, 1970s
Listeners noticed the lack of women on-air, such as at Rice in the 1970s, when women at Jones College, an all-women’s dormitory at the university, complained. “Why aren’t there any girls doing shows in the evenings or nights,” a group asked. “Girls” were relegated to afternoons, “when nobody listens.” “We want to hear a girl…
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College Radio Cuts: Complaints about “Women’s Programming” at KTRU, Rice University, 1980s
I am making a lot of painful cuts in the book manuscript right now, so I’m archiving them here. “Dear KTRU,” the letter read. “Your station is Houston’s finest and I enjoy it. That said, I must register one complaint. There is far too much time devoted to ‘Women’s Music.’ Why not let DJs play…
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Reconstructing the Archives in Sound
Early this January I was writing up a section of my book project on college radio about Rice University’s KTRU in the 1980s. KTRU-FM’s records include both paper and sound: their online collection of on-air programming is one of the more extensive in college radio history. I visited the physical archives in June 2019, in…
Katherine Rye Jewell 