CSULB and Radio

As many of you know, I've been a continuing advocate for the return to a real radio program for students at CSULB.

The CSULB Associated Students have no interest other than their "jukebox" (KBEACH) for students to "play" radio, without the curriculum to support it. The old "Radio-TV-Film" department is now "The Department of Film and Electronic Arts" with radio not a factor. What was KLON (now KJZZ) flounders along, year after year, perpetually in debt to the University and with little or no student involvement.

I've approached the University, the Associated Students and the department chairs for FEA -- with lukewarm, non existent or even negative results to my suggestions of starting a new student radio program.

Craig Breit has taken the KSUL model and applied it to the Cerritos College radio program, but because it's a community college, apathy is even more rampant than at the University. It is a good program with a great facility, but the lack of support from the college and the low enrollment by students, "still searching" for their career, has failed to create anything close to what we did at KSUL.

The questions: How important is it that a student radio program return to CSULB? Do you feel your degree has lost it's value with the lack of a student radio program at the University? Has the way you look at CSULB as an Alumni been shaped by what happened to KSUL and the subsequent demise of student radio, in any scholarly form, at CSULB? And finally, would you donate more economically if the program was brought back?