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many station* worn using it to transmit. and
KWVA the now kid on the hint k was the
first to lose a spot. Lovelady said
According to campus radio records, the station
applied for the first permit in Novumlxir 1990 and
was granted it in February 1992 The I t'.d said it
received the newest construction permit applica
tion April 24. 11*92
While the campus radio station wails for its fi
nal permit, so does the University student body
for KWVAs first broadcast In a campus election
nearly three years ago. students voted to fund a
campus radio station with student fees At that
time, organizers said they ox pec ted to begin trans
mitting within a few months
Sinc e that spring 1990 elec lion, however,
KWVA then called KRMA has had little
luck and no air time
KWVA may not have received Us final go
ahead. but the Incidental Fee Committee has allo
cated campus radio three years' worth of student
funds amounting to $UMi,809 to get the station
started
Most of (ho monoy covers ono-tlmo costs such
ms lug equip men! expenditures, ms equipment
makes up $5 i,4fi‘i of what campus radio has (aten
budgeted for during the three yours
Another 523,008 was allocated for stipend ex
penses fur KWVA'.s paid employees These in
clude the station's department direr tors and man
agers, hoveledv said, but l))s will hr' volunteers
lit' chairman Strive Masat said when the IFC
reviews KVVVA's budget this year, the allocated
money will he significantly reduced" to less
than what was given m the past three years
"It appears now that the groundwork hits been
laid,” he said We expect the budge! to go down
20 to :i0 percent.
In the or .current e that another year passes with
out KVWA going on the air. Masat said the sla
lion's situation would definitely he re-evaluated
"if they don't get on the air this year," he said,
"their funding is in jeopardy "
ASUO President Bobby Lee said that though
the station has not gone on the air. campus radio
organizers deserve stipends ix-cause they are do
ing the work oi an "up ami-running" station
Lee, though, is going after the money that one
former employee received for working lour
months this year Thu student was written a letter
earlier this month asking for the return of SIM)
because the student was not lured through proper
procedures, Lee said
When l-ee look office last summer, one of his
main goals was to have KWV'A go on the air lac
fore the end of his term as president, he said Let
said a neutral, third-party group of people did an
evaluation and audit of the campus radio station
during the summer, and some former KWVA or
ganizers who were asked to leave did resign
Lee said the only major offense the evaluation
found with the station was S43‘l 21! In. pelly cash
missing from its fund-raising money He said it
may not be illegal, however, la-cause the money
was never put into a state account as it normally
would have been
*If they don't get on the air this
year, their funding is in
jeopardy
Steve Masat.
IFC chairman
Ma-.ii!. who represents the IFC' on the KVVVA
Board of Dim tors, salt) hr hits born advising the
station on finance) 1 mutters during the past throe
months
The Ixi.ird consists of several student positions
including a representative from the IFC'. ASIJO
and Student Senate - and community at-large
positions Masat said the IFC position is included
to "keep an eye on them and see what’s going
on "
One thing that’s not "on” is the radio station,
and most often the PCX is blamed.
i.ovelady said non-profit or educational sta
tions seeking accreditation are often ignored a
while because they lack the money to fund a law
yer to lobby the FtXI for the necessary paperwork.
"It can’t he afforded," Lovelady said, "especial
ly with the way current financial things are today.
We re going to be important to the University, but
we have to work within the (financial) con
str.unts
Love lady said former station directors probably
made the prediction of soon biting on the air after
the loot) election because they may have been
basing their views of receiving permits on how
long it would take a commercial station - with
lawyers and more money.
Paul Bjornstad, general manager of the Univer
sity-backed KVVAX classical radio station, said
the I'CU is known to take a long time. He said his
station applied to increase its power and move to
a different radio lower, and the PCC took 18
months to approve it
Porter said tile FCX) should not be blamed lor
long waits She said stations but not necessari
ly KWVA or KWAX .ire prone to make errors
in the paperwork that eventually require more
time from the PCX,'
" The reason whv it takes so long is il you fill
out an applii ation wrong.” she said "And then a
letter takes (>0 days to lie processed.”
Bjornstad said he believed the HOC was in the
final stages ol looking at KWVA's latest applica
tion and simply needed further documentation
He said last week he believed the student-run sta
tion's application was "probably 30 to 60 days
away from getting approved
After KWVA gets Us permit, it will lie one to
two weeks iiefore the station is ready to transmit.
Loveladv said He said assembling the PLC anten
na and transmitter is just a matter of nuts and
boils and will not take long
There seems to be little doubt the University
will have a student station, hut Loveladv refuses
to get too hopeful with his predictions of exactly
when KWVA will be allowed to go on the air.
"To say anything is for sure is impossible to
do," he said. "What the 1’CC will do is what
they’ll do ”
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