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liniteraDiniirinieimti THE LINCOLN STAR Thursday, October 20. 1 PAGE 13 KUCV doing same old business at new address to that amount in three years, she said. Wick also noted that the station set a goal of increasing membership by 150 and wen exceeded that by gaining 236 new members. KUCV now has about; 1,500 active supporters. "I think the general public reaction to the station has been very good, which is indicated by the public's support during fund drives.

"You learn very quickly that you can't please everybody. There's always somebody who's going to think we're not serv- ing them adequately, but that's a risk we're going to have to take." WITH KUCV now under the wing of the NETC, there have been concerns I from some people that the station wUl, evolve into a sort of agriculturallegisla-tive informational service, Wick said. "We've been given assurances that's not what the commission had in mind We've been told there win be no format changes, that KUCV win continue to be a primarily classical music service," she said. The state public radio network will be a three-tiered service involving national, statewide and local programming. KUCV win be the network's flagship station, much as KUON is the flagship sta-tion of the Nebraska Educational Television Network, but its exact program structure has yet to be set There were also concerns that KUCV was merely switching from one institution to another and one bureaucracy to another but Wick said those con-: cerns weren't reflected in the station's staff.

There's no doubt about it everyone: loves the new studios. It's an brand- new," she said. The station's office space has been cut in half and storage space reduced greatly in the move, but in addition to the new studios it has a new voice-over room, she said. KUCV, which was founded in 1968 as a 10-watt Union College campus radio station, now broadcasts at 18,000 watts. It's located at 91 on the FM dial By Reid Warren et The Lincoln Star It seems as though every couple of years or so questions arise whether KUCV-FM is slowly but surely shifting its emphasis away from classical music.

And it seems as though every couple of years or so the folks at the fine arts radio station assure the community that ifshot Such questions have come up lately not only because KUCV has moved into new quarters as part of its plan to become the flagship station of a state pub-he radio network, but because it's added six hours of jazz programming and more news and information programming, i Not to worry, says KUCV station manager Lisa Wick. TO THE FEOFLE who think KUCV has only a few hours of classical music left on its schedule, Wick points out that, except for its drive-time news" from 5 to 6:30 p.m., from 8 am to 1 am Monday through Friday the station broad-Casts virtually nothing but classical music. "We argue that our service hasnt changed," Wick said in an interview at the new KUCV offices in the lower level of the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission building, 1800 N. 33rd SI On Oct 1, KUCV started broadcasting five jazz programs from 8 p.m. to midnight every Saturday.

The programs, which include vintage jazz and piano jazz, are provided by National Public Radio and American Public Radio. Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" had been in the Saturday night slot and KUCV had tried out a couple of programs after the demise of that show. "The reason behind the jazz, frankly, is that people have been asking about it for years," Wick said. "It's in the slot for entertainment-type programs, and we felt comfortable with that time slot "Actually, we haven't gotten a lot of Complaints relating specifically to jazz. KUCV trafficking director Jeff Smith makes an adjustment to the station's equipment in its new studio at the NETV building.

church service and switched to a "Weekend Edition" news show from 8 to 10 am and programs on money management and car repair after that "We've' had the most negative response on that Some people have called up and said, 'You shouldn't be doing or 'Where's my classical Wick said. "But it was a well-thought-out, calculated risk. The Arbitrons (radio listener survey) indicated that we didnt have an try, and that means longer than three months." KUCV fen short of its goal of raising 830,000 in this year's fall membership drive, but Wick noted the same thing had happened for the past few years and said it wasn't indicative of declining support. The station has been setting a goal of 830,000 as if it's an "unattainable magic number," and this fall's pledge total of 827,500 is the closest the station has been audience there to alienate. "We've also been pushing really hard to get listener comments.

Several times a day we go on the air and say, 'We've made these changes but we need to hear from It's up to us to motivate them, and we want to make the extra effort to solicit listener comments." Asked how long the station would air the jazz programs, Wick replied, "The listeners are going to determine that in the long run. We'd like to give it a fan- We had 17 phone calls the first Saturday night and an were positive." The station also made changes in its Saturday morning and noon programming. When it was owned by Union Coh lege, KUCV broadcast classical music and a church service during that time period. With the transfer of its license from the college to the NETC as part of the groundwork for the public radio network, KUCV dropped the music and Diets Don't Filmgoers put The Accused' out front in weekly box office race The Diet Center Program does! Hanks-Sally Field film about stand-up comics, "Punchline," which garnered Call now for a free FVipl" consultation and to ask iJlXAr 1 about our special! (fxnYcm Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co. "The Accused" is loosely based on the 1983 incident in which a woman was gang-raped on a pool table in a New Bedford, tavern.

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