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<\/a>In North Carolina there’s Fayetteville State College’s Board of Trustees, who sold\u00a0WFSS-FM<\/a> back in 2015. Of late somebody wrote into the Fayetteville Observer and asked<\/a>: “The Fayetteville State University public radio station WFSS still comes on, but why did they stop the jazz section of its programming?”<\/p>\nHere’s the newspaper’s answer:<\/p>\n
“WFSS, which broadcast from the campus of Fayetteville State, had featured jazz as the core format since its inception in the late 1970s. But an eclectic mix of formats were blended into the lineup, including bluegrass, gospel, blues, and African and Latin music.<\/p>\n
Problem was, the station was losing money, operating on a deficit of $60,000 to $100,000 a year, according to Jon Young, who was provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Until the sale is approved by the Federal Communications Commission, the\u00a0University of North Carolina\u2019s WUNC is streaming on the signal via a Local Management Agreement.\u00a0 So out went the jazz format and everything else, the deficit of which cost FSC around the same as a full time faculty member<\/a>. Guess that was just one professor too many.<\/p>\n