tranquileye free media papers

John Stevenson's submission in response to CRTC Public Notice 1991-118, the review of campus radio.

Exerpt: The commission and college broadcasters had intended to capture something of the 1970s university culture in student radio. But by the early 1980s, the campus environment had changed significantly, and a majority of students were listening to formatted commercial FM radio and enjoying the mainstream music it played. In order to maintain (or in some cases recapture) its vitality, college radio had to latch on to a new genre: new music. At CKDU-FM Halifax they called it the "the Fall of the Bearded Ones." Most campus stations seem to have a story from this period about a music director who went through the record library throwing away huge piles of music. Depending on the station, it was either all the old dinosaur rock and disco, or all the punk and new wave. Regardless, the die had been cast, and "alternative" cameto mean something more narrowly sub-cultural. Instead of an enlightened student body, the audience was now the punks, new mods, and other "alternative" types.