eSchool News online - School radio station fights for survival

eSchool News online - School radio station fights for survival

"School radio station fights for survival
From eSchool News staff and wire service reports
November 11, 2005

A high school radio station that has been broadcasting for more than 30 years is in danger of being shut down. Reason: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last month awarded the station's frequency to an upstart religious broadcaster based some 3,000 miles away.
WAVM (FM 91.7), run entirely by students of Maynard High School in Maynard, Mass., says it will fight the FCC's decision to reassign its frequency to California-based Living Proof Broadcasting, a noncommercial broadcaster of Christian music and Bible study.

WAVM-FM went on the air in the early 1970s, said Joseph Magno, the station's faculty adviser. Since then, Maynard students have reported on sports, news, and weather, broadcast Sunday church services, and played music on the air.

"This isn't just a radio station. It's an actual, viable school program. It's the most well-known, important, impressive part of Maynard," said Magno. He said the station has received both local and national recognition and has seen dozens of its alumni go on to broadcasting careers.



73 fer nw,
Bob N5IET/AE

10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
http://www.n5iet.com/
Code may be taking a back seat for now,
but the pioneering spirit that put the code
there in the first place is out front of it all.