Same here, I walked past the room multiple times in my 5 years at NKU, never tuned in once. Saw the stickers and the sign but that was it. No teachers or any student organizations ever mentioned it, so I am not sure if the student population listened to it. I did see somebody post on my FB feed about the NKU newspaper article about it.

The building next to it on the left as you're looking at the Library.

 

Ok, for the record never went into the library building during my time at NKU.

I have no firsthand knowledge to tell you whether or not it's true, but I was told that WNKU did not have any fund drive events in the last fiscal year...and it's unclear whether that was a decision made by the personnel who operate the station, or if it was a decision handed down to those personnel from individuals at the university.

 

If it's true that they didn't have a fund drive, and it turns out to be a decision made by the station, then they imploded from the inside. If there was no fund drive on orders from the university, then it sounds like the university was intent on unloading the radio station already.

 

That's weird. You would think if getting sold was on the table they'd be fundraising like crazy, or at least campaigning against it. Sounds like a lot of this happened suddenly.

 

I'd be curious to know what the university's outlays were to keep it running. $1.9 million doesn't sounds like a whole bunch of money relative to the overall budget. I imagine the station did more for the community and students than however many undersecretaries to some assistant dean they're going to hire with the money will do.

For those who had never heard of or listened to this station, man, did you miss out!

 

RIP WNKU and thanks for music!

Ok, for the record never went into the library building during my time at NKU.

 

That actually helps explain a lot....

That's weird. You would think if getting sold was on the table they'd be fundraising like crazy, or at least campaigning against it. Sounds like a lot of this happened suddenly.

 

I'd be curious to know what the university's outlays were to keep it running. $1.9 million doesn't sounds like a whole bunch of money relative to the overall budget. I imagine the station did more for the community and students than however many undersecretaries to some assistant dean they're going to hire with the money will do.

 

Funny you mention fundraising. The reason I figured out it was on one of my presets was because they told listeners to make sure their current credit card was on file if they were signed up to donate annually to support the station.

That actually helps explain a lot....

 

Spent all my time in BEP and the math building.

Spent all my time in BEP and the math building.

 

And dodging geese, those damn geese, mean geese.

 

 

Sidebar, now we dodge them at work with this huge retention pond we have out here. Geese everywhere, with their honk, honk here and a honk honk there. honk honk geese poop everywhere.

I knew of the station for many, many, many years........but what they were/are playing is not "my cup of tea".

 

To be fair, only one day a week is your "cup of tea" on the radio, and that's Wild Hair Wednesday.

I'm going to miss Funky Friday.

To be fair, only one day a week is your "cup of tea" on the radio, and that's Wild Hair Wednesday.

 

That would be Big Hair Wednesday on WEBN

My first go-to station, and the one that's on in my car 98% of the time.

 

Not aware of any other cutting edge eclectic stations in the area that will help keep me informed while also satisfying me by playing underground cuts of yesteryear.

 

WEBN angry stoner rock, and Fox's Classic Rock just ain't gonna cut it.

 

I liked Freebird and Hotel California the first 500 times I heard them, and Disturbed and Nikleback...Well 'nuff said...

 

Big loss for anyone who likes to keep up with some fresh sounds, and before anyone says that there's nothing new worth listening to it's because you haven't been paying attention, and find it way to easy to blanket cover to avoid admitting your own lack of keeping up with it.

 

I can't name an era where there hasn't been decent music made, long before my teen and college years, during, and long after...The torch is constantly being passed.

 

I will listen to either Classical on WGUC or Big Band on an obscure station before taking the chance of subjecting myself to Guns n' Roses.

 

This Sucks... The day the music died.

 

The music isn't dead. In fact quite the opposite. We are in a golden age of music (although more accurately it's a golden age of technology providing us access to music). Between satellite radio, internet streaming services, and the internet in general with blogs and discussion boards dedicated to every kind of niche music no matter how esoteric, it has never been easier to be "kept informed" while also getting your fix of "underground cuts of yesteryear". AM/FM radio is ultimately going the way or print journalism, and that's a good thing. There's better and easier options out there now.

Ok, for the record never went into the library building during my time at NKU.

 

Funny. I used the computers and drank the coffee in the library lobby on a consistent basis but never walked through the doors to the actual library part. I was there from 2002-2010 and left with two degrees.

PDoc on the value of WNKU:

 

Doc: Why I will forever be in WNKU’s debt

The music isn't dead. In fact quite the opposite. We are in a golden age of music (although more accurately it's a golden age of technology providing us access to music). Between satellite radio, internet streaming services, and the internet in general with blogs and discussion boards dedicated to every kind of niche music no matter how esoteric, it has never been easier to be "kept informed" while also getting your fix of "underground cuts of yesteryear". AM/FM radio is ultimately going the way or print journalism, and that's a good thing. There's better and easier options out there now.

 

Agreed... I also have my online go-to's (more specifically 3WK.com is my fav), yet there is something nice about having a local music community feel where DJ's would discuss upcoming shows in smaller clubs, and highlight local rising artists, keep listeners informed of the Midpoint Music Fest, and the Bunbury Fest, and keep the non-coorperate music discussion alive for those who enjoy knowing about artists with integrity who've not yet sold their souls to big-label clowns

 

Often touring independent bands will bypass Cincinnati, and hit Columbus and Louisville instead, but stations like WNKU or the MOTR club would be the saving grace behind attracting them to play here. WNKU would also regularly attract touring bands to stop by their studios for in-studio performances. Having a college rock station has a big impact on keeping our city on the map for touring artists. I fear that it will struggle more with the station gone.

 

With guys like Dan McCabe of MOTR and the Woodword Theatre being a Cincinnati mainstay we thankfully will continue to have a pulse and a life line to the outside world, but a radio station is monumental.

 

One thing that I believe could happen as a result of this would be an opportunity for some industrious local music lovers to launch their own Cincy centric website.

 

For example already established sites like CincyMusic.com could be prompted to step up their game to not only report and advertise the music scene, but to further it by regularly running a playlist and perhaps encouraging online discussion. I can also see record shops like Shake-it Records seeing this as an opportunity for them to perhaps be frontrunners of such a movement.

 

Music lovers will find a way, but there's just something sad about seeing a quality long standing station link WNKU die, and I must admit enough old-schoolness in me that likes to crank up the jams in my car and feel like I've got a personal DJ to guide me in what sounds are fresh, and a centralized spot to share new music with like minded friends.