Monday profile: Lowndes County man looking to put literature on airwaves
The words of James Joyce going into West Point homes over the airwaves. The poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge crackling through the speakers of a car in Columbus. The tall tales of Mark Twain heard at night across the prairie.
That is the vision of one Lowndes County man.
And the beat goes on … WMSV celebrates 20 year milestone with music and memories
Station Manager Steve Ellis remembers that morning 20 years ago. The time was just before 6 a.m., March 21, 1994, and he was about to flip the switch for the first broadcast from WMSV 91.1, a new radio station on the Mississippi State University campus.
Radio, TV personality David ‘Kidd’ Kraddick dies
Radio and TV personality David “Kidd” Kraddick, the high-octane host of the “Kidd Kraddick in the Morning” show heard on dozens of U.S. radio stations
Five Starkville students selected to contribute to Rural Voices radio program
Debbie Vanderford’s fifth grade classes at Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary are pretty diverse.
From race to socioeconomic status to gender, the diversity in the two classes makes for some unique stories. So when it comes time to submit her classes’ personal narratives to the Mississippi Writing/Thinking Institute for the Rural Voices Radio program, Vanderford’s biggest problem is simply getting the students to write something, anything, down.
Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging
A nurse who took a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge apparently killed herself three days later, with a coroner’s officer saying today she was found hanging by the neck and a detective saying she left three notes.
Juvante Burks combines faith, love of music in MUW radio show
Picture the scene. It’s a Sunday night in 1985. A DJ at the local skating rink digs through crates of vinyl, playing the latest soul, funk, R&B and pop records.
Caledonia students to be featured on radio show
The voices coming from Caledonia are so loud you can hear them from anywhere in the state. Assuming you have a radio.