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KUSF “DJs In Exile” spin in simulcast radio show at Amoeba Records

by DJ Rubble
Several of the KUSF DJs - “DJs in Exile” since being shut and locked out of their station 90.3FM San Francisco a month ago in a big money corporate sale - spun live last Friday, February 18 at Amoeba Records in the Upper Haight. The show was simulcast on popular New Jersey FM music radio station WFMU and also picked live by up by about 10-15 other stations locally and nationally. KUSF is fighting at the community and FCC level to reverse this sale and maintain its dial space. Hear several excerpts from the spirited show. DJs I heard include Irwin, Carolyn, Stereo Steve, and Harry D. The entire three hour show can be found with high quality audio on kusf-archives.com. Less than a week remains to write letters to USF administrators and the FCC opposing the sale, instructions are on savekusf.org. (28 minutes)
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No station has been able to overturn a deal like this, a national trend of big-money conglomerates buying small budget, small dial space stations for bloated prices and corporatizing even the non-commercial section of the FM dial. The FCC needs to be inundated with letters - about a million letters in opposition stopped a further media deregulation that had been proposed as a “done deal” in 2003 - to set the stage for a formal review and hearing to oppose the sale and license transfer. After the FCC comment period ends, KUSF will file a request to deny the sale. This will require the formal FCC review instead of rubber stamping it as passed on arrival as they typically do.

KUSF is looking to raise something with $25-50,000 for a team of lawyers to represent the station. They've raised over $10,000 alread and will push for a formal hearing. They and two of the SF Board of Supervisors continue to work to dialogue with the University President and other top administrators, but there has been no cooperation and a clampdown of information on campus. Only canned lines put forth by the school's press bureaucrat are allowed.

The issue has caught on in the mainstream press and through independent radio stations nationwide. KUSF has an incredibly extensive and diverse music library, which drives the diverse music programming. The University owns it. If this is lost to the station and community, it can’t readily be replaced. The way this Father Privett is operating, I could see them selling it to a used record store of something, or just destroying it. The KUSF community is continuing small community events around the city and working towards a rally on campus while the school is in full session.
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