U. of Houston buying Rice U. student radio station

[Mike_Saffran]

Some of you likely have already seen this news:

U. of Houston Board Approves Purchase of Rice U. Student Radio Station

 

[aaronread]

There's a Save KTRU website and Facebook group, too. The latter had 746 fans and rising, not too shabby. On the other hand, there's also a discussion going on the Houston Radio-Info boards that shows little love lost for KTRU, either.

 

[aaronread]

KPFT, the Pacifica station in Houston, is offering a HD2 channel to Rice's soon-to-be-web-only KTRU.

Personally I think that's very nice of them to do that, but while I don't have any specific knowledge of the situation - speaking generally I fear Rice University would freak out about being associated in any way with the "left wing weirdos" of Pacifica. Although perhaps this will spur Rice to demand that KUHF make an HD2 channel available to relay the web-only KTRU?

 

[TomZ]

Houston Public Radio ready to split next Monday
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7557675.html