{"id":542,"date":"2009-07-28T18:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T01:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2009-07-28T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T01:31:57","slug":"college-radio-read-kill-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2009\/07\/college-radio-read-kill-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"College Radio Read: Kill the Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_544\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kill-book-promo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-544\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-544\" title=\"kill-book-promo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/kill-book-promo-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kill the Music\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kill the Music<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love reading stories about radio and every time I run across a college radio mention in a book, my interest in piqued. In the months to come I&#8217;m going to work on compiling a list of college radio &#8220;must reads,&#8221; from the academic to the autobiographic. My first pick: Kill the Music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=lasarslettero-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1439234477&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;margin:5px;float:right\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Kill the Music: The Chronicle of a College Radio Idealist&#8217;s Rock and Roll Rebellion in an Era of Intrusive Morality and Censorship <\/em>is a new book by Michael Plumides that in part looks back at his time in South Carolina in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he was a DJ at college radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/wusc.sc.edu\/\">WUSC-FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the book he gives an interesting glimpse of the student radio scene (including staff member drama) at a particular point in history.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the story also hinges on his time as the owner of the 4808 club, the site of an infamous incident at a GWAR show involving accusations of obscenity on the one hand and censorship on the other. I <a href=\"http:\/\/spinningindie.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/interview-with-college-radio-vet-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently interviewed<\/a> Michael about the book and about his time in college radio and here&#8217;s a choice excerpt from our chat in which he talks about the first college radio station where he worked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jennifer Waits: Tell me a bit about the first station where you DJ&#8217;d and when you were there?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Plumides: The WLOZ-FM station, originally broadcast from UNCW on 91.3 (now public radio WHQR&#8217;s frequency) before being shut down by administrators in 1983 because of a drug scandal. Supposedly, the student broadcasters called out to their dope smoking customers on-air, using code language to indicate that certain packages had arrived. The death knell came when a deejay took a bong hit while broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-eighties, WLOZ returned as &#8220;cable radio station,&#8221; requiring a special hookup to your cable TV. You had to go to Radio Shack and buy this coaxial antennae device to rig to your receiver. Needless to say, we had a deeply disturbed following. I was in on the \u201cCable FM\u201d incarnation (90.9) in 1985 and 1986, where I acquired my first FCC license, and then I transferred back to USC. For a time in the late &#8217;90s, WLOZ broadcast an extremely weak signal on 89.1 FM that could more or less only be heard on campus. That station ceased functioning in 2001. I understand they\u2019re now a <a href=\"http:\/\/student.uncw.edu\/org\/hawkstreamradio\/\">net broadcast.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In future posts I&#8217;ll share some books about college radio history and another personal narrative about college radio in the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading stories about radio and every time I run across a college radio mention in a book, my interest in piqued. In the months to come I&#8217;m going to work on compiling a list of college radio &#8220;must reads,&#8221; from the academic to the autobiographic. My first pick: Kill the Music. 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