CSULB and KKJZ
The following was posted on the "Jazz Radio" section of the AllAboutJazz.com message boards:
For the record, because my "quotes" have been floating around this thread, I thought I'd clarify my position on KKJZ.
I and many other CSULB radio Alumni are working with the Film & Electronic Arts Department (formerly Radio-TV-Film) to bring the "radio" aspect back to the department. The ultimate goal would be to have a full-on department with a full curriculum and a real "radio lab" for students to hone their craft.
We've started with a meeting of the chair of the FEA department who was open to adding a radio class back into the course study. We are in the process of raising funds and establishing further funding to develop the program.
Hopefully, we can have a full plan together before a planned 25th Anniversary Reunion of KSUL (the student station displaced by KLON/KKJZ) sometime in the next few months. Past reunions have been extremely successful and it would be a perfect opportunity to "gather the troops" for the cause of bringing back a radio curriculum to CSULB.
It's been 25 years since KLON (now KKJZ) replaced the student run station and in that time many from KSUL have gone on to very successful broadcast careers, many on the air and behind the scenes right here in Southern California. Our goal (we don't need the teaching gig, we all have jobs in broadcasting) is to "grow" a radio department and give students an opportunity that we had. Nothing else.
It also seems like a good time to have the University reconsider the value of KKJZ. Could it serve the University better to have student involvement, broadcast campus events, have a working "radio lab", promote "the Beach" and bring some NEW resources from Alumni to the station and the University, than to always have the radio station at a long distance, emotionally, from the campus community? Based on numerous factors at KKJZ and PPR, it seems like the best time in 25 years to, at least, ask these questions.Thanks for allowing me to clarify my goals at CSULB.
....and yes, I wrote a book about Black Sabbath, but I also appreciate and love Coltrane.
Mike Stark
For the record, because my "quotes" have been floating around this thread, I thought I'd clarify my position on KKJZ.
I and many other CSULB radio Alumni are working with the Film & Electronic Arts Department (formerly Radio-TV-Film) to bring the "radio" aspect back to the department. The ultimate goal would be to have a full-on department with a full curriculum and a real "radio lab" for students to hone their craft.
We've started with a meeting of the chair of the FEA department who was open to adding a radio class back into the course study. We are in the process of raising funds and establishing further funding to develop the program.
Hopefully, we can have a full plan together before a planned 25th Anniversary Reunion of KSUL (the student station displaced by KLON/KKJZ) sometime in the next few months. Past reunions have been extremely successful and it would be a perfect opportunity to "gather the troops" for the cause of bringing back a radio curriculum to CSULB.
It's been 25 years since KLON (now KKJZ) replaced the student run station and in that time many from KSUL have gone on to very successful broadcast careers, many on the air and behind the scenes right here in Southern California. Our goal (we don't need the teaching gig, we all have jobs in broadcasting) is to "grow" a radio department and give students an opportunity that we had. Nothing else.
It also seems like a good time to have the University reconsider the value of KKJZ. Could it serve the University better to have student involvement, broadcast campus events, have a working "radio lab", promote "the Beach" and bring some NEW resources from Alumni to the station and the University, than to always have the radio station at a long distance, emotionally, from the campus community? Based on numerous factors at KKJZ and PPR, it seems like the best time in 25 years to, at least, ask these questions.Thanks for allowing me to clarify my goals at CSULB.
....and yes, I wrote a book about Black Sabbath, but I also appreciate and love Coltrane.
Mike Stark
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