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Radio 1190 History |
Huge thanks go out to Erin Bennett, Doug Goldman, Jeff Cronin, Bonnie Burton, Mark Coffey, Steve Jones, Cheryl Majors, Alain Lapter, and Dee Mueller for their assistance in compiling and error-checking the information in this document. Without them most of this information would be lost.
A more detailed history that consists of brief, one to two paragraph summaries of each event is also online.
| Early 1970s | University of Colorado Student Radio Governing Board attempts to obtain an FM frequency(see Station Acquisition file) |
| May 1974 | Outgoing university President Frederick Thieme sets aside $16,000 from his discretionary funds to establish a 250 watt FM station at CU-Boulder (see Station Acquisition file) |
| 1977 | UCSU promises $25,000 in equipment to KGNU in exchange for student involvement (see Station Acquisition file) |
| May 22, 1978 | KGNU goes on the air. |
| 1978-79 | UCSU gives space in the UMC and $30,000 to the Student Radio Governing Board to create student radio studios. Station acts as a satellite station for KGNU (see Station Acquisition file) |
| 19? | KAIR formed (not student run) 660 AM carrier current |
| 1987 | KUCB formed (student run) 530 AM carrier current; carrier current system completely replaced; Williams Village added to broadcast group |
| 1988-89 | KUCB starts doing dance nights at Quigley's (Club 156); "Progressive As Hell" becomes official KUCB motto |
| 1989-90 | Naked Radio 1 (Brad Caldwell & Matt (Ratte) McMullen) (see KUCB Scrapbook); KUCB helps refurbish Quigley's (Club 156) |
| Spring 1990 | First KUCB program guide comes out (see KUCB Scrapbook); office space expands to add new Promotions/Engineering room (now Music/Engineering/Sales room) |
| 1990-91 | first Feed the Beast promotion (see KUCB scrapbook); Sales Manager position created (although its name will change several times) |
| Spring 1991 | Operations Manager position created (internship through School of Journalism and Mass Communications this time) |
| June 1991 | KUCB wins Best Jazz Radio Show in Westword's Best of Denver edition (see certificate at KUCB) |
| Summer 1991 | UMC basement floods, KUCB floods |
| 1991-92 | Third consultant report on going full-power done (see Surveys file); UCSU decision to hire full-time researcher for transmitter question; Operations Manager becomes a volunteer position |
| 1992-93 | UCSU scraps idea of hiring researcher, requires fourth consultant report, student survey conducted by the Office of Research and Testing (see Surveys file); highest sales achieved at KUCB (approximately $25,000) |
| September 1992 | Localpallooza (see KUCB Scrapbook) |
| Nov. 30, 1992 | Received survey results from Lou McClelland, Research & Testing (see Surveys file) |
| June 30, 1993 | KUCB wins Best Radio Station That's Almost Impossible to Hear from Westword in their Best of Denver edition (see Support/Articles file) |
| Jan. 1, 1994 | TCI cable drops all radio stations from its service. KUCB is not reinstated until Nov. 1, 1994. (see Support/Articles file) |
| 1993-94 | KUCB funding almost cut (Brad Dempsey); KUCB brings lots of supporters to UCSU meeting. |
| 1993-94 | transmitter referendum (attempted in Fall but UCSU wouldn't allow it, then they forced one upon us in the spring with two weeks to prepare and campaign for a $15, two semester student fee increase as well as a smaller, $1.72 per semester increase) |
| Spring 1994 | $1.72 student fee increase to purchase a transmitter passes, larger one technically passes but not by a big enough percentage to go into effect. Brandon Nicholson (UCSU Architecture & Planning Rep.) concocts a plan to convince UCSU to pass the higher fee anyway on the grounds that students will be more likely to be able to hear the new station. UCSU passes it. (see Bills file, also Support/Articles file); KBKS goes under and comes up for sale. |
| May 3, 1994 | Negar Ayromloo and Stephanie Escher (two of the Tri-Executives) veto KUCB bill. The third Tri-Executive, Patrick Riley, says that he still supports the bill. (see Support/Articles file) |
| May 1994 | KUCB wins third place in the Colorado Daily's Boulder's Most Wanted Student Choice Awards for best radio station. KUCB comes in behind KBCO and KTCL. (see Support/Articles file) |
| Spring 1995 | KUCB undergoes its Cost Center Audit (see Finance/Audit file) |
| Late April 1995 | meeting with Chancellor Park where SJMC Dean Rowland shows up |
| April-May 1995 | KBOL comes up for sale; SJMC negotiations stalemate |
| May 1995 | KUCB again wins a Boulder's Most Wanted Best Radio Station Award in the Colorado Daily's Student Choice Awards. (see Support/Articles file) |
| Summer 1995 | Negotiations with SJMC (see J-School Negotiations file); we receive insurance money for damages incurred in Flood of 1991 |
| Jan. 1996 | Negotiations with SJMC resume and end (see J-School Negotiations file) |
| Spring 1996 | Discussion on how bad radio in Boulder is on the Usenet newsgroup boulder.general turns into a spontaneous discussion of how great KUCB is and how sad it is that the station can't be heard off campus (see Support/Articles file for some of the posts) |
| Jan. 1997 | This document created |
