Despite the biased opinions of KURE DJs, the fact is there are not a lot of KURE listeners. It’s great that they want to offer a variety of music, but the music they play does not represent what the majority of average trendy college students listen to.

Most people that live in Ames, including college students, tune in to Des Moines-area stations such as Lazer 103.3, Kiss 107, or 102.5 because that is the type of music that they listen to. Right now, there is a lot of crap played on KURE 88.5. Crap that nobody wants to hear except the DJ that is playing it. Every time I tune in to 88.5, I hear crap. There are a lot of no-name bands and too many DJ-made-up genres. Most people can only take so much of these kinds of music.

KURE could be so much better. It should be so much better. Better than any corporate-run radio station. But if people are to listen, than it should be at least a little like a major radio station. KURE needs to play more of what you might hear on a corporate radio station, only a wider variety of that kind of music.

I would love to have my own radio spot on KURE. In fact, I’ve tried to get my own spot. For almost an entire semester, a friend and I tried to do it. But KURE is run like an underground radio station, meant for only a certain type of listeners. If you don’t like indie/pop rock or don’t know a lot of no-name bands, than you can’t be a DJ on KURE. My friend and I wanted to put together a show similar to what you might hear on a corporate radio station, only better.

We were never given a radio spot on KURE because we were too much into “mainstream” music.

Of course the purpose of a college radio station is to be able to introduce some new and different kinds of music that you might not hear on any other radio station. But there is a reason that certain types of music are not played on corporate-run radio stations. After all, if no one is listening, what’s the point?

Jason Hough

Sophomore

Business