WHAT WE WANT TEXAS TECH TO DO TO HELP BRING BACK KTXT-FM

WHAT WE WANT TEXAS TECH TO DO TO HELP BRING BACK KTXT-FM, BETTER AND STRONGER THAN EVER, AND SEE THAT IT CONTINUES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS:


1. We want the university to find KTXT-FM 88.1 a new independent home, under the current umbrella of the Texas Tech University system that is fully committed to preserving and fostering the rich 47 year history of student-run radio at Tech. We would also like this entity value the mission of maintaining many different diverse student activities and organizations who are openly available to all students on campus, such as KTXT-FM is currently.

2. We want Derrick Ginter at KOHM to be named our Texas Tech staff advisor, and be the conservator of our non-commercial FCC license, thus allowing us to continue to broadcast over the airwaves and online. Derrick would also be responsible for advising and advocating KTXT-FM on overall program goals and merit-worthy upgrades of assets pertaining to the radio station offices and studios - as well as other integral broadcasting equipment. (We do not however, want to be considered a part of KOHM proper, or be housed directly under them, due to the very different funding and mission statements of the current three broadcast entities at Texas Tech – KOHM, KTXT and KTXT-TV.)

3. We want a full-time assistant staff advisor hired to help support the student staff of the radio station. This person would be available to answer student questions, help develop fund-raising initiatives alongside the student staff, provide advanced broadcast training to the student staff, and mediate conflicts. This person would also be an advocate for KTXT-FM and the student radio program on the Texas Tech campus at large, regarding funding and alumni outreach, and maintaining historical records. (This would also fall under the suggestions that were outlined in the Division of Student Affairs Strategic Plan for KTXT-FM.) We would like Derrick Ginter and Blake Porter, the current student Station Manager at KTXT to jointly vet this new hire, and for him or her to have prior experience advising a student-staffed broadcast organization.

4. We want our offices and studios housed on the second floor of the Student Media Building returned to KTXT-FM, or another comparable location be made available to the student-run radio station program. (We occupied this same office space over two decades, before our five years with Student Media.) We would prefer that any alternate location be close to KOHM, and we would like the University to consider a future plan to house both entities together in a space that would allow growth for both stations to continue – such as the empty office space on the 5th floor of the 1901 University building, where KOHM is currently housed.

5. We want all new and old broadcasting assets previously purchased in the name of KTXT-FM which were seized on December 10th 2008, by the Department of Student Media, returned to KTXT-FM and signed over to Derrick Ginter. (This same courtesy was provided the Department of Student Media when they acquired KTXT from the College of Mass Communications, and we think it is the right thing to do in the current case.) Otherwise we request that comparable replacement assets be re-purchased in time for the 2009 spring semester for the station by Texas Tech University. We would also like all of our digital assets, (music and digital spots), returned to KTXT-FM regardless of who keeps the hardware. We want our KTXT.net website domain transferred to Derrick Ginter.

7. If we are forced to relocate and rebuild, we want to have a way to automate music and broadcast temporarily from the old location, so that our FCC license does not become jeopardized, during any sort of transition due to code violations for being off-air too long.

7. We want to continue to have student service fees help fund KTXT-FM, as they have done historically. We would also like a fair base operating budget for the program be instated by Texas Tech University through various means of campus funding. This budget would include money for the student staff, TTU staff advisors and the typical annual costs of maintaining the radio station’s assets and student-radio program. This figure would come from looking at past years base operating expenses.

8. We want official endowment fund set up for KTXT-FM through the Center for Campus Life so that Texas Tech/KTXT-FM alumni and the community can make donations to help keep KTXT-FM on the air, by helping to offset the economic burden of costly broadcasting equipment failures or upgrades to the studio. We see this fund as being similar in nature to the Texas Tech Masked Rider Endowment Fund that is in place to help maintain and preserve that great Texas Tech Tradition, and a hub for alumni who would like to see KTXT-FM thrive on campus like it has for the past 47 years.