And El Olio Wolof is from Merced.

It’s a tricky situation over at KFSR. The station has suffered from poor visibility among students for a long time, and you can’t blame them for wanting to cater to their fanbase and what people respond to. But at the same time, it’s supposed (at least it seems like it’s supposed) to be a college station for college students.

To me, it sounds much more like NPR than college radio.

I’m not sure there is a solution because I’m not sure college students today really listen to the radio at all. And why would we? We can get whatever we want whenever we want and we don’t need any radio station playing music we don’t like.

The older crowd is probably much better suited for radio. KFSR is a potentially powerful tool to create a cool student community but I’m not sure it’s worth it or possible.

It would take a lot of work and niche programming AND marketing to reach many students. Maybe they should team up with the Craig School of Business or something. Of course, at the same time the station needs to not alienate its donors, so it’s very tricky. Funding is most likely a problem there.

I think it might be more successful if it had more niche programming instead of the eclectic sets. I think with the popularity of podcasts, there’s at least the possibility that a group of metal fans would listen for three hours at a time. And a group of sappy emo fans, hipster indie art students, etc etc. Please make an obscure hard rock program!

I think this would be more effective (if made visible and public) than mixing it up tremendously. I think it’s annoying to hear a song I might enjoy but then some reggae or world music comes on and I want nothing to do with it.

And El Olio Wolof is from Merced.

It’s a tricky situation over at KFSR. The station has suffered from poor visibility among students for a long time, and you can’t blame them for wanting to cater to their fanbase and what people respond to. But at the same time, it’s supposed (at least it seems like it’s supposed) to be a college station for college students.

To me, it sounds much more like NPR than college radio.

I’m not sure there is a solution because I’m not sure college students today really listen to the radio at all. And why would we? We can get whatever we want whenever we want and we don’t need any radio station playing music we don’t like.

The older crowd is probably much better suited for radio. KFSR is a potentially powerful tool to create a cool student community but I’m not sure it’s worth it or possible.

It would take a lot of work and niche programming AND marketing to reach many students. Maybe they should team up with the Craig School of Business or something. Of course, at the same time the station needs to not alienate its donors, so it’s very tricky. Funding is most likely a problem there.

I think it might be more successful if it had more niche programming instead of the eclectic sets. I think with the popularity of podcasts, there’s at least the possibility that a group of metal fans would listen for three hours at a time. And a group of sappy emo fans, hipster indie art students, etc etc. Please make an obscure hard rock program!

I think this would be more effective (if made visible and public) than mixing it up tremendously. I think it’s annoying to hear a song I might enjoy but then some reggae or world music comes on and I want nothing to do with it.

And El Olio Wolof is from Merced.

It’s a tricky situation over at KFSR. The station has suffered from poor visibility among students for a long time, and you can’t blame them for wanting to cater to their fanbase and what people respond to. But at the same time, it’s supposed (at least it seems like it’s supposed) to be a college station for college students.

To me, it sounds much more like NPR than college radio.

I’m not sure there is a solution because I’m not sure college students today really listen to the radio at all. And why would we? We can get whatever we want whenever we want and we don’t need any radio station playing music we don’t like.

The older crowd is probably much better suited for radio. KFSR is a potentially powerful tool to create a cool student community but I’m not sure it’s worth it or possible.

It would take a lot of work and niche programming AND marketing to reach many students. Maybe they should team up with the Craig School of Business or something. Of course, at the same time the station needs to not alienate its donors, so it’s very tricky. Funding is most likely a problem there.

I think it might be more successful if it had more niche programming instead of the eclectic sets. I think with the popularity of podcasts, there’s at least the possibility that a group of metal fans would listen for three hours at a time. And a group of sappy emo fans, hipster indie art students, etc etc. Please make an obscure hard rock program!

I think this would be more effective (if made visible and public) than mixing it up tremendously. I think it’s annoying to hear a song I might enjoy but then some reggae or world music comes on and I want nothing to do with it.