‘It’s a damn shame’
State cuts cripple KWAX
By DAVE BANKS
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KWAX will lose about $25,000
annually in state funding for the
next four years, says Denny
Guehler, promotion and
development director for the
on-campus radio station
“This year we had our budget
cut about 25 percent (from
$130,000 to $100,000), and
we re looking at a similar
25-percent cut for fiscal
1982-83,“ he says
The station's $180,000 oper
ating budget includes not only
the state funding, but also about
$45,000 from the federal
government through the Cor
poration for Public Broadcast
ing and additional funding from
listener contributions
“Currently we do 10-day fun
draisers during both the fall and
the spring, where our goals are
to raise $20,000 each time,”
Guehler says "Next year, since
the maximum amount of state
funding we can expect is
$75,000, our fundraising efforts
will have to be more extensive
Prior to the 1981-82 fiscal
year, the Legislature had
planned to cut KWAX entirely
from the state's 1981 -82 budget,
he says
Due to intensive lobbying
efforts on the part of our lis
teners, in the form of phone
calling and letter-writing, we
were able to reduce a $130,000
cut to only $30,000," Guehler
says
The KWAX budget pays the
salaries of six full-time and two
part-time staff members, $5,000
yearly affiliate dues to National
Public Radio and costs for
equipment, repair, expansion,
and other incidentals
KWAX began broadcasting
April 4, 1951, primarily as a
student extracurricular activity
In the 1960s, the station began
serving the community-at-large
and during the 1970s, when
KWAX became one of the first
members of NPR, the station
became more community
oriented
The station operates at
20,000 watts with an antenna
and transmitter located atop
Blanton Heights KWAX serves
the ar^t from just south of Port
land to Roseburg and from the
coast to the Cascades with
over-the-air and cable broad
casts
"It's a damn shame,” Guehler
says of the cuts “The station is
on its way up If we can make it
through the next couple of
years, and if the economy looks
better, we should be in good
shape "
The station will have to work
harder and harder to stay even,
he says
“It’s going to be a battle just
to keep it (the budget) where it is
now.”
Guehler fears that community
programs — besides KWAX —
such as the athletic program,
the theater, the Art Museum,
and the Labor Education and
Research Center, will be among
the first to lose state funding
“KWAX reaches a lot of peo
ple," Guehler says. "We have a
strong, very unique audience."
"The University is going to
have to look at some more fund
raising," he says "We re going
to have to look to community
and alumni donations as a more
permanent part of the budget
rather than just icing on the
cake ”
KWAX is running a
26-week-long radio drama of
The Lord of the Rings, the
J R R. Tolkien trilogy. It airs
Saturday at 7 p.m.
"America hasn’t done much
in radio drama in a long time,"
Guehler says. "But it's coming
back in this country now TV has
killed much of radio drama in
this country. Radio drama never
died in England Instead of radio
drama in America, the U S went
whole-hog for TV ”
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last year, according to Registrar
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The 1 5-percent decline in
cludes a 10 2-percent drop in
community education enroll
ment Regular University enroll
ment is down 1 1 percent, com
pared to a nearly 3-percent de
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