Radio listeners know that sound effects are essential to a story: They engage the audience, help deliver information, increase production value, evoke emotional responses, and help set the scene and mood.<\/p>\n
Unless, of course, they are completely unrelated to the story.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what the KRCC staff has increasingly found in its quarters in an old Victorian house on Weber Street, and why they are eager to move into a state-of-the-art building.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have truly loved the building on Weber Street, warts and all, for a very long time. Unfortunately, the warts are really starting to get in the way of delivering the quality news product that the listener deserves \u2014 unless, of course, you like sirens, motor-cycles, leaf blowers, etc., in the background during your newscasts,\u201d says Mike Procell, KRCC host of \u201cAll Things Considered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery siren, car alarm, and opening door goes out over the air,\u201d says Abigail Beckman, the station\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition\u201d host. Adds KRCC Station Manager Jeff Bieri, \u201cIt has too many creaks and groans for us to do professional broadcasting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction is nearly complete on a new state-of-the-art public media center in downtown Colorado Springs. Located at 720 N. Tejon St., the Southern Colorado Public Media Center will include KRCC, Colorado Public Radio, Colorado College\u2019s Journal-ism Institute, and Rocky Mountain Public Media\u2019s Colorado Springs Regional Innovation Center.<\/p>\n
Last year Colorado Public Radio and Colorado College entered into a collaborative partnership,\u2028and on Feb. 1, 2020, CPR started operating the KRCC group of stations on behalf of Colorado College. In addition to purchasing the new building, CPR\u2019s commitment includes installing a new transmitter and upgrading KRCC\u2019s aging equipment. The cost of creating the Southern Colorado Public Media Center is approximately $4 million; CPR has already secured more than $3 million, including more than $1 million from CPR reserves.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s our hope that the Southern Colorado Public Media Center will enable the participating organizations to educate the next generation of journalists and public media professionals and more fully engage and entertain Coloradans in a way that promotes an informed society, civil conversations, and solution-focused problem solving,\u201d Bieri says. \u201cWe are seeking at least an additional $1 million in support for this exciting vision. Your generosity will help Coloradans build bridges among the cultural, economic, and regional differences that shape\u2028and define the Centennial State.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to commercial funders and individual subscriptions, funding the Media Center will require the philanthropy and personal commitment of those who share KRCC\u2019s vision. \u2028Contact KRCC Station Manager Jeff Bieri at jbieri@krcc.org<\/a>, (719) 473-4801; or \u00a0\u2028CPR Senior Vice President of Development Jim East at jeast@cpr.org<\/a>, (303) 871-9191 ext. 327.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Sounds of Silence? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":17291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-17316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2021","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2021\/08\/CC-BUL-SUM21-05-News-KRCC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}