Re: Fwd: Herald: Is WWZN dragging down SNR?

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 11:41 PM 6/13/2003, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>The few LPFMs that were allowed was an exception, of course.  A Part 15 
>station probably
>wouldn't cover the average-sized university campus.
>

Yes, it can.  However it's not easy to do and it must be properly designed 
and executed.  Because it is frequently cheaper to do it wrong, it is often 
done wrong at many colleges.


> > Also, BU does not make any money off WBUR.  It's a common misconception,
> > but the two have essentially separate budgets.  WBUR has to pay BU for a
> > lot of the services it receives (internet, utilities, phones, janitorial
> > stuff), although all employees there are BU employees (BU signs da checks)
> > but WBUR doesn't get money from the school, and the school doesn't get
> > "protection money" from the station.
>
>WBUR used to be staffed by Public Communications students as part of their 
>curriculum, as
>I believe is still done today with WERS.  I don't understand why Boston 
>University changed it
>to this big behemoth that it is today if it didn't make money for the 
>University.
>

It didn't.  It became the behemoth after BU cut off the funding to 
WBUR.   Actually it became the behemoth BECAUSE the funding was cut 
off.  It was grow-or-die.


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Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
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