Chattanooga State officials agreed today to sell the college’s radio license for WAWL-FM 91.5 and tower to an unidentified buyer and to create an online version of the station, according to President Jim Catanzaro.
Sale proceeds will be used to buy new equipment and to create a Web site that will serve as a hands-on lab for Chattanooga State Technical Community College broadcast students, he said.
Dr. Catanzaro said he has been working through a broker, as required by the Tennessee Board of Regents, to sell the station for about a year. He said it became clear the college would be unable to afford the nearly $1 million it would take to convert the 11,000-watt station to digital broadcasting by 2009, as required by law.
“We have agreed, as of today to sell the license and the tower for $1.5 million, and (we) will use that money to make improvements in our mass communication facilities and the rest will go to other improvements for the student body as a whole,” Dr. Catanzaro said.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Barry Courter is associate features editor, entertainment editor and books editor for the Times Free Press. He started his journalism career at the Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1987. He covers primarily entertainment and events for fyiWeekend and edits the Sunday books page. Born in Lafayette, Ind., Barry has lived in Chattanooga since 1968. He graduated from Notre Dame High School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a degree in broadcast journalism. He previously ...
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