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KUSF - The ongoing struggle to return the Real KUSF to the left side of the dial
Part Three: DJ Carolyn, DJ Jonny G, and Prof. Dorothy Kidd go into aspects of the ongoing struggle to return the real KUSF to the left side of the dial.
Entercom headquarters.
San Francisco.
January 18, 2012.
[O]n January 18, 2011, something exceptional was taken from our city.... KUSF had been an essential part of the cultural life of San Francisco from 1977 until January 18, 2011. On that day, without the prior knowledge of student and community volunteers, KUSF stopped broadcasting. Later it was revealed that 90.3 FM had been sold in a complex back-room deal involving the University of Southern California and Entercom Communications, the fifth-largest broadcasting company in the United States. In mere minutes, a venerable independent radio institution, valued for its one-of-a-kind new music programming as well as by the tapestry of San Francisco communities that it served – including Armenian, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish – was no more. --Friends of KUSF
Eleven-minute QT movie. 49MB.
Entercom headquarters.
San Francisco.
January 18, 2012.
[O]n January 18, 2011, something exceptional was taken from our city.... KUSF had been an essential part of the cultural life of San Francisco from 1977 until January 18, 2011. On that day, without the prior knowledge of student and community volunteers, KUSF stopped broadcasting. Later it was revealed that 90.3 FM had been sold in a complex back-room deal involving the University of Southern California and Entercom Communications, the fifth-largest broadcasting company in the United States. In mere minutes, a venerable independent radio institution, valued for its one-of-a-kind new music programming as well as by the tapestry of San Francisco communities that it served – including Armenian, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish – was no more. --Friends of KUSF
Eleven-minute QT movie. 49MB.
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos has asked the City Attorney to draft an ordinance to create a voluntary fund to support non-commercial community radio in San Francisco. The proposed ordinance, modeled on an existing city law that supports arts programs, would direct the City Treasurer to set up and administer a “Community Radio Fund” to solicit and accept voluntary contributions on city property tax and other bills.
Under the proposed ordinance, information about how and why to contribute to the new “Community Radio Fund” will be distributed in conjunction with property tax and other tax and fee bills. The proposed ordinance is modeled on an existing city law that funds non-profit arts organizations, which has raised more than a million dollars in voluntary donations since it was created by a city ordinance in 1984. --DJ Jonny G
For the complete story on KUSF and full audio from the January 18, 2012, demonstration go to DJ Rubble's account.
Save KUSF:
Part 1: DJ Fari
Part 2: Tracy Rosenberg
Part 3: This is Pt. 3
Under the proposed ordinance, information about how and why to contribute to the new “Community Radio Fund” will be distributed in conjunction with property tax and other tax and fee bills. The proposed ordinance is modeled on an existing city law that funds non-profit arts organizations, which has raised more than a million dollars in voluntary donations since it was created by a city ordinance in 1984. --DJ Jonny G
For the complete story on KUSF and full audio from the January 18, 2012, demonstration go to DJ Rubble's account.
Save KUSF:
Part 1: DJ Fari
Part 2: Tracy Rosenberg
Part 3: This is Pt. 3
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2 audiences were victimized by capitalism: The KDFC classical music audience and the KUSF audience. KDFC was a commercial station which owners told the staff they had 48 hours to disappear. Someone who liked classical music made the deal to take over the KUSF station and convert it to KDFC, which is now a listener-sponsored classical music station, with a weaker signal than we had before. We, the classical music audience, did not ask for this, just as the KDFC audience did not ask for this. This is the stench of the capitalist profit motive where garbage is profitable. KDFC does not get any government grants and survives on donations from its listeners. Perhaps Mr. Avalos is willing to let ALL community radio stations, including KDFC, benefit from this fund, if it ever materializes and ever has sufficient funds to pay for anything. Just who is going to give voluntary contributions, unless they are tax deductible, which means we, the taxpayers, will pay for it in the end. It would be better if we had a citywide or statewide ballot measure to tax the rich, those making over $200,000 a year from all sources, to support public radio. In addition to KDFC, this writer supports KPFA which could use a statewide ballot measure for support of public radio.
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