Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian RADIO: KBLU broadcasts at 240 watts Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and located at Mission, Turning the dial to 90.5 FM will KCUW broadcasts at 100 watts, or reveal an eclectic playlist that runs the about as much as bright light bulb. gamut from classical to classic rock KCUW has gone through great and world music. lengths to expand their audience While a pre-launch survey revealed despite the low wattage. many potential listeners wanted to a In addition to moving its radio station dedicated to country western tower from Cayuse to the top of or classic rock, management decided Wildhorse Casino and Resort, to aim for a different audience. KCUW recently started streaming “Geezers tend to want genre their broadcast online thanks to some music,” said Gary Betts, who underwriting from Cayuse Technolo- co-founded KBLU with his wife, gies. Virginia Blakelock. “Millennials and KCUW operations manager Jiselle adults want the mix.” Halfmoon said the online broadcast Betts’ resume may be the only gives the station a better idea of how thing more varied than KBLU’s many people are listening and what selection. His lifelong interest in they’re listening to. electronics began as a boy assem- The KCUW listening audience bling radios in his spare time in numbers may have hit their peak Zillah, Wash. Betts eventually moved during the recent season of Nixyaawii to Seattle to attend the University boys basketball games. This was the of Washington, where he initially ¿UVW\HDU.&8:EURDGFDVWDOORIWKH decided to major in physics before team’s games, which coincided with switching to comparative literature. the Golden Eagles’ run to the state After graduating with a master’s title game appearance. degree Betts moved to a cabin west “Everybody was listening,” of Wilsonville in 1969, a place he’d KCUW assistant Anson Crane said. call home for the next 24 years. In addition to broadcasting During his time in the cabin, he basketball games, KCUW also plays worked stints as a Portland Commu- a combination of prerecorded and nity College professor, the owner of live material hosted by a small but a concrete company and a software dedicated group of volunteer disc designer for IBM. jockeys. Halfmoon plans to continue Betts married Blakelock, a expanding their programs. renowned beadwork artist who’s had Halfmoon wants to recruit more her work shown in the Smithsonian volunteers with the message that the Institution, in 1980. station is open to all programming, Betts and Blakelock moved to not just those focused on the tribal Eastern Oregon in 2005 after Betts community. inherited his grandfather’s Athena She wants to use new volunteers wheat farm. to grow the station’s burgeoning local Betts and Blakelock got together news coverage, which recently added a group in 2007 and spent seven DQHZVVHJPHQWWKDWDLUV¿YHGD\VD years raising the funds to buy a radio week. license and collect the equipment :LWK D VLJQL¿FDQW SRUWLRQ RI needed to start a community station. KBLU’s budget coming from member KBLU started broadcasting in donations, volunteer personnel is also October, using a radio tower powered RQHRIQRQSUR¿W¶VWRSSULRULWLHV by solar panels to cut energy costs. Currently, the station plays The early goings weren’t easy — commercial-free music from premade high winds blew off KBLU’s solar playlists mostly curated by Blakelock. SDQHOV ZLWKLQ WKH ¿UVW IHZ ZHHNV In addition to prerecorded spots cutting off its broadcast. that share track information, Betts Replacements were sent free of also wants a variety of prerecorded charge and reinforced to keep them programming, including a bedtime anchored. With the recent instal- story time for children, a call-in lation of a wind turbine to provide show for city council members and additional power to the tower, high a farm show that would be a mix of winds are now an asset instead of a country western music, wheat prices threat. and updates from the Oregon State Betts said KBLU’s broadcast is University Experiment Station. now stable, although Pendleton’s Betts eventually wants to add live uneven topography and prepon- material to the mix, but is wary of derance of brick buildings means profanity without having the equip- not every area of town receives the ment to edit it out. signal clearly. KBLU can be heard on the radio at KBLU broadcasts at 240 watts, 90.5 while KCUW is on 104.3. Both which is more than twice as powerful are on the FM dial. as the signal emitted by KCUW, ——— another community radio station in Contact Antonio Sierra at the area. asierra@eastoregonian.com or Owned by the Confederated 541-966-0836. Continued from 1A Cancer study will take new tack CHICAGO — The federal government is launching a very different kind of cancer study that will assign patients drugs based on what genes drive their tumors rather than the type. The National Cancer Insti- tute’s NCI-MATCH trial will be a massive precision medicine experiment at more than 2,400 sites around the country. Starting in July, about 3,000 patients will have their tumor genes sequenced to see what mutations or pathways fuel their disease. About 1,000 patients whose tumor characteristics most closely match one of the 20 or so gene-targeting drugs offered in the study will be put into groups of about 30 patients to get that drug. “The goal is really to try to get the information faster, so when we see responses we can expand rapidly” and offer the drug more widely, said Dr. Douglas Lowy, the Cancer Institute’s acting director. 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So a drug that WDUJHWVRQHRIWKHVHIRUDVSHFL¿F cancer, such as breast, may work against other types, such as lung. “We’re getting to the lowest common denominator” of a cancer, said Dr. Otis Brawley, FKLHI PHGLFDO RI¿FHU RI WKH American Cancer Society, which has no role in the study but praised the effort. “You might end up with 30 people, all with different kinds of cancer, getting the same drug.” Those eligible for the study will be adults with tumors or lymphomas worsened or spread despite at least one standard treatment. Fresh biopsies will be taken and sent to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for quality checks, then sent to one of four labs around the country that will sequence the DNA. All the labs will use tests IURP 7KHUPR )LVKHU 6FLHQWL¿F of Waltham, Massachusetts, to check for 143 cancer genes and more than 4,000 mutations. The whole process should take less than two weeks. 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