Contact: Gary Hawke, School of Journalism, (785) 864-0603, or Lynn Bretz, University Relations, (785) 864-3256.
LAWRENCE - University of Kansas student radio station KJHK 90.7 FM is one of 20 stations singled out in a national magazine article titled "A Guide to Great Radio from Coast to Coast."
The article describes KJHK as "one of the most rocking frontline college stations in the country, and, having gone online in 1994, the first to broadcast a continuous live signal over the 'Net."
The accolade appears in the July issue of Attache, the in-flight magazine for U.S. Airways.
"It's nice not only to be cited for being one of the first radio stations on the Web but also for having content that people enjoy," said KJHK general manager Gary Hawke.
KJHK, a student laboratory in KU's William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has provided a live signal to the Internet for five years and was instrumental in developing streamed video to the Web.
Other college radio stations cited in the article include KCMU at the University of Washington at Seattle and WRVU at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.