#save kusf

[pressuredroptv2]

Paisano live stream. Turn on, Tune in, Drop out!

[pressuredroptv2]

The Ben Miller Band playing "Twinkle Toes" live from the @SaveKusf studios on the @DJWebbles show #The Hangover Sessions on1/18/15. 

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[honeyandshade]

On Air ~ School project, cool story of local radio DJ in San Francisco

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A KUSF Manifesto proposal

The bottom is cold under the endless depths of the Internet.  How can this sunken, ravished flag-ship, once heralded as KUSF, sail full mast once again?  Here is a a proposed manifesto in the reconstruction of KUSF, as an online format.

I have began volunteering djing at the zombie online version of KUSF. It's a miserable sight walking in and seeing the previous DJ being an IPod on shuffle, a souless mix of the library's new music circulation. The battle on the legistration front continues as the past members of KUSF and the SF community continues to regain solidarity and independence from USF. However, I feel, at this point, because of the looming impossibility of buying the station rights back from the University, that the ex-KUSF members and the community should not be raising money for an FCC lawyer ($10,000) but try to organize a new radio station and hopefully raise money to obtain a radio frequency. Or, maybe those same ex-KUSF DJs and Cultural programmers, collaborate with another radio station like KQED and make a station branch. Obtaining their previous music collection to use in their new frontier, instead of dusting away under the Phelan Hall, is a different debate (Should the school really own all those records? Should they make that music available to public access? What is the net worth of all those records and CDs?)

As of right now the online version of KUSF is here to stay...although it's shady how long her mortality rate will be. The equipment is still in Phelan Hall but will be "moved" to the Kalmanovitz Building by next school semester. Here is what I would like to see for the resurrection of the KUSF online version, a collaboration by both the student body and the University:

1. The University should incorporate KUSF within the curriculum of Graphics Design majors to reinvent the KUSF website. This will provide students necessary skills in website coding, construction, and challenge them to create an innovative image. The new KUSF online format should include archiving of shows, as well as, a forum for not only students but community members to comment the quality of the online programs. The University should hire new professors that are proficient in website design.

2. The University should incorporate KUSF within the curriculum of the Media Studies majors to help run the production of shows, PSA, and community relations. The curriculum should also include how to promote KUSF through social networking. Extra credit to those students that volunteer to be "dead hour" DJs, but also required to have one scheduled slot (between 30 minutes and an hour) once a week. KUSF should not only invite previous volunteers to work for the online station, but the University should hire some of those senior volunteers to teach the students how to become a DJ personality, how to write creative PSAs, and how to make contacts within the community.

3. The University should have student volunteers help reorganize the music library. There is a lot of music. Whatever space the music is being accessed from, the genres, and artists need to be broken down even more.

4. All money that was earned from the radio frequency should go into the betterment of the online station.

5. KUSF must uphold it's previous integrity. Diverse music taste of old and new music and cultural programming. This must be enforced especially onto the Media Studies majors that will work for the station but also seep into the general student body. That is why I want to suggest also including programs by student clubs, political organizations, the library staff, public safety, or other classes to utilize the station. This will invite more of the student body to listen but also invite outside community listeners to share the ideals happening within the University. However this should not mean everything on the station is specifically centered around the student body. Quality programs like Chinese Star Radio or NPR type programs need to be included. Diverse music DJs should entice both student musicians and local musicians either.

6. the online KUSF must maintain it's presence within the SF community as well. It was pleasing and proud to see a KUSF logo in a tavern, restaurant, a laundromat, or on a t-shirt. Though fans previously thought of a small collective radio station, and not a University, the point is to maintain the fact a University radio station should have larger significance than it's student body.

The last point of this manifesto almost contradicts all the other points. The previous points suggested that KUSF be more student centered. This is true. But I am trying to express a merger of the old aesthetics KUSF with the future of the new one. I am not a media studies student to serve the community of the University, the University should serve to me as a media studies student. My goal as a media studies student is informing the community.

[allofthemwitches-blog]

you CAN fight city hall

... except that City Hall is kind of already on our (KUSF's) side, which RULES! We were down there for the Board of Supervisors meeting where Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi resolved that the city act on supporting a future for community radio in SF. Their transcribing machine (at least I HOPE its a machine) is pretty bogus though. According to the transcriber, here's what Ashley "said" today: I don't know a lot about the technicalities and the politics. I did not grow up in san francisco but I moved here because this is a place that i felt like I could call home. This city offers lots of cultural opportunities. This was a representation. I know a lot of people who are involved. many people know that the princess would not have been known. This is really important. it would be a shame to finance resources that we have had here. if the cannot have this utilize, it would not be a give-and-take. En I think this city needs these young people and I think that this generation expense n needs kusf.