[grc] KUSP (Santa Cruz) moves towards selling station to the group that bought KUSF

[Jennifer Waits]

I covered the KUSF shutdown and sale very extensively on Radio Survivor. CPRN ended up buying a few licenses in the SF Bay Area and is airing KDFC programming on all of them.
Here's a piece from when the KUSF license sale went through:
FCC Fines USF and CPRN $50K, Grants KUSF License to CPRN

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| FCC Fines USF and CPRN $50K, Grants KUSF License to...Nearly 15 months after University of San Francisco college radio station KUSF was shut down, the FCC has granted the license to Classical Public Radio Network. |
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Here's more on classical radio station deals in particular:
Classical Radio Deals Hint at Public Radio Consolidation
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| Classical Radio Deals Hint at Public Radio ConsolidationAn article on The Deal Pipeline outlines public radio transactions involving classical music radio stations, giving an overview of public radio consolidation. |
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      From: Tracy Rosenberg <tracy at media-alliance.org>
 To: juice at whidbey.com 
Cc: GRC <GRC at maillist.peak.org>; mike at brownbroadcast.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 9:35 PM
 Subject: Re: [grc] KUSP (Santa Cruz) moves towards selling station to the group that bought KUSF
   
I wrote a bit about it a few years ago. KUSF and KTRU are two examples.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-rosenberg/college-radio-you-will-be_b_823146.html

and

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-rosenberg/post_3116_b_1337904.html

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:32 PM, <juice at whidbey.com> wrote:

> If I recall correctly, KDFC and the classical public radio network
> along with public radio capitol (PRC) were involved in sucking up
> several other college stations.
>
> So what is known about this trend and those that benefit and ware does
> the money come from?
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maria Gilardin" <tuc at tucradio.org>
> To:<mike at brownbroadcast.com>, "GRC" <GRC at maillist.peak.org>
> Cc:
> Sent:Wed, 06 May 2015 18:13:07 -0700
> Subject:Re: [grc] KUSP (Santa Cruz) moves towards selling station to
> the group that bought KUSF
>
>  How sad and angry making! I knew that station -
>  KUSP is $700,000 in debt which includes NPR!
>  Whatever part is owed to NPR - it has always upset me that NPR pays
>  exorbitant salaries, collects affiliation fees and then sells the
>  listeners of its affiliates to their ever more disgusting
> advertisers,
>  including the fracking industry and used car sales men.
>  Think about it! - as they say in the frack-biz ..
>  Maria
>
>  Maria Gilardin/TUC Radio
>  PO Box 44/Calpella, CA, 95418
>  (707) 463-2654
>  http://www.tucradio.org
>
>  On 5/6/2015 5:53 PM, Michael D. Brown wrote:
>  >
>
> http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2015/05/05/santa-cruzs-kusp-votes-to-sell-licen
>  > se/
>  >
>  >
>  > Michael D. Brown
>  > Brown Broadcast Services, Inc.
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