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| Image courtesy of KXAN-TV |
About 10 miles
southwest of Austin, the Cypress Creek Café used to be the home of low-power KOWO
104.1 FM.
All of that changed on Monday (5/29) when a fire destroyed the historic
café and KOWO’s office and equipment.
According to local
news reports, investigators say the fire started around 2am in the kitchen
of the Cypress Creek Cafe and adjoining Buzzard Bar.
The fire started in the
kitchen but the exact cause is not known. The building is a total loss. No one
was injured in the fire. However, two cats and one dog are missing.
Winberley Texan
Radio, the licensee of KOWO, has requested temporary authority to be off the
air until further notice.
KOWO is one of
several small Austin-area noncoms that repeat programming from roots rock Sun
Radio. Sun has established a fundraising
campaign to get KOWO back on the air, according to this post on the Sun Radio
website [link]:
Sun Radio is devastated to
hear about Cypress Creek Cafe this
morning… Randy & Trish of Cypress Creek Cafe have been beyond supportive of
our station going all the way back to our inception.
Our Wimberley affiliate, KOWO
104.1FM, is currently off the air with their antenna/signal originating from
Cypress Creek Café. All of their equipment was damaged by the fire. Sun Radio
will keep everyone up to date with the condition of Cypress Creek Cafe as well
as when our affiliate KOWO 104.1FM will be back on the air.
NEWSLINK
SIGNS OFF
Newslink, one of the first public media online bulletin boards is gone as of the end
of May. For many years Newslink was
the place for public radio journalists to find job openings and chatter about
newsroom issues. It was established in the mid 1990s by Nancy Fushan of
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) on behalf of the Public Radio News Directors
(PRNDI).
After Fushan left
MPR, Euan Kerr
became Newslink’s moderator. Kerr posted the news on Newslink
last week:
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| Euan Kerr |
It is with a mixture of
sadness and relief that I write to let you know Newslink will ride off into the
digital sunset at the end of this month.
For the last few years the MPR
IT folks have dropped by every once in a while to ask whether it is still being
used, and I have always said yes. This last time, when I learned we would have
to move servers, with a certain amount of hassle, and seeing the very low
traffic on the site, I realize it makes sense to shut up shop.
Newslink was set up under the
auspices of PRNDI a good 20 years ago, maybe longer, by Nancy Fushan and others
as a way of facilitating discussion between Public Radio news people without
the overwhelming background noise on some of the PubRadio list servs. I think
its been useful, having heard about people who have found advice, and
occasionally jobs in its missives.
I'd like to thank everyone who
has been involved, and I hope our paths cross in the real world sooner rather
than later. All the best, and keep up the good and important work you all do! Euan
Kerr
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