KNHC gets New York recognition
Nov 15, 2003 20:24:47 GMT -5
Post by ljaesch on Nov 15, 2003 20:24:47 GMT -5
KNHC 89.5, the radio station in Seattle run out of Nathan Hale High School (which plays primarily dance music), was named the best high-school radio station in New York by The New York Village Voice.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2001791553_knhced15.html
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The sound of success at Nathan Hale
Students at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School have a right to walk a little taller and feel a bit smug about their radio station, C89.5-FM, just named best high-school radio station in New York.
Really.
The award comes, amazingly, from New York's Village Voice newspaper. That's an important point. Radio, especially alternative radio, is no longer the province of a tightly confined, local broadcast area.
Computer streaming means listeners everywhere can tune in to C89.5-FM and enjoy its snappy, edgy, hybrid of Top 40, rhythmic and contemporary dance music. People dial it up on their computers.
KNHC, as the station also is called, has long been a positive story: High-school kids, piles of homework awaiting, run an alternative, hip station on a tight budget. It is unusual, and impressive, for a high-school radio station to have the impact the station has. C89.5 reaches an audience of 110,000 listeners per week — big for a high-school station.
Streaming has enabled Nathan Hale alums and former Seattle residents to tune in from anywhere. And they do.
Seattle had reason to brag about C89.5 before the New Yorkers discovered it. But it is nice to know that when the ultra-hip Big Apple reviewers went looking for the top high-school station, they landed on C89.5.
"So what if C89.5 is staffed by students at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School?" wrote Josh Goldfein in Village Voice's "Best of New York" issue. "A station that broadcasts hi-NRG disco all day, punctuated by the occasional goth specialty show, is automatically best in New York, especially if it Webcasts."
Credit goes to program director Jon McDaniel, general manager Gregg Neilson, Judy Rudow, the advanced radio instructor, and the school district for supporting this off-beat elective program in tight budget times.
Congratulations as well to all the hardworking students who bring energy and talent to an endeavor that makes a city proud.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2001791553_knhced15.html
(if the moderators don't want the actual article to also be included, which it is below, then please feel free to edit it out, or ask me to edit it out. Thanks)
The sound of success at Nathan Hale
Students at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School have a right to walk a little taller and feel a bit smug about their radio station, C89.5-FM, just named best high-school radio station in New York.
Really.
The award comes, amazingly, from New York's Village Voice newspaper. That's an important point. Radio, especially alternative radio, is no longer the province of a tightly confined, local broadcast area.
Computer streaming means listeners everywhere can tune in to C89.5-FM and enjoy its snappy, edgy, hybrid of Top 40, rhythmic and contemporary dance music. People dial it up on their computers.
KNHC, as the station also is called, has long been a positive story: High-school kids, piles of homework awaiting, run an alternative, hip station on a tight budget. It is unusual, and impressive, for a high-school radio station to have the impact the station has. C89.5 reaches an audience of 110,000 listeners per week — big for a high-school station.
Streaming has enabled Nathan Hale alums and former Seattle residents to tune in from anywhere. And they do.
Seattle had reason to brag about C89.5 before the New Yorkers discovered it. But it is nice to know that when the ultra-hip Big Apple reviewers went looking for the top high-school station, they landed on C89.5.
"So what if C89.5 is staffed by students at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School?" wrote Josh Goldfein in Village Voice's "Best of New York" issue. "A station that broadcasts hi-NRG disco all day, punctuated by the occasional goth specialty show, is automatically best in New York, especially if it Webcasts."
Credit goes to program director Jon McDaniel, general manager Gregg Neilson, Judy Rudow, the advanced radio instructor, and the school district for supporting this off-beat elective program in tight budget times.
Congratulations as well to all the hardworking students who bring energy and talent to an endeavor that makes a city proud.