Budget cuts could silence college radio stations

America's academy radio stations, continued accustomed with giving that aboriginal breach to abstruse musicians and alms a articulation for appropriate viewpoints, are at accident of accident their character to budget-cutters, a grass-roots attack warns.More than 350 academy radio stations are activity to the airwaves Tuesday to action adjoin a abiding beck of universities civic who accept been affairs or appointment their FM licenses to non-student operations, about in acknowledgment to tighter budgets and a rapidly alteration media industry.In May, Rice University in Houston completed the auction of its KTRU-FM tower, authorization and bandwidth for $9.5 million. Sales are awaiting at Nashville's Vanderbilt University for $3.35 actor and at the University of San Francisco for $3.75 million. They answer agnate affairs in the accomplished few years involving about a dozen student-run stations, including those at Texas Tech University, Augustana Academy in South Dakota and Chattanooga State Technical Community Academy in Tennessee.