ST. CLOUD, MN. — KVSC is moving on up, from the basement of Stewart Hall to the Sherburne Residence Hall’s 13th Floor at St. Cloud State University.  This also happens to be the tallest building in city of St. Cloud.  KVSC will be moving nearly all of its studios and offices into dorm rooms while contractors hired by the university abate sewer and water backup issues. 

The move is scheduled for Friday, July 3 through approximately Wednesday, August 5.  However, the station is currently nearly empty in preparation for the move.  All live programming has been moved to a back-up Production Studio to prepare for the temporary re-build.  The station’s radio signal at 88.1FM and live webcast will have minimal or no interruption in the transition.
   

“It’s been months of preparation for such a significant move,” says station manager Jo McMullen-Boyer, “but we’ve done our best to pre-think every engineering, programming and promotions aspect of this move. Operations Director Jim Gray has done an amazing job handling the logistics of this project with the support of Residential Life, Buildings and Grounds and Technology Support Services staff.”

The new temporary live broadcast studio is the 13th floor lounge, B-wing, a room 10 x 14 feet facing west.  A production studio will be re-built in a dorm room along with a room dedicated to Central Minnesota Audio Newspapers, a local news service for the visually impaired staffed by a group of community volunteers different than KVSC’s volunteers.  All of KVSC’s support offices (Management, Programming, News, Music, Training, etc) will share dorm rooms on the 13th floor.  The move is required because due to Federal Communications Commission rules, KVSC cannot legally go off the air for more than three days.  The sewage abatement project begins July 6.

KVSC should be back in the basement, broadcasting from its normal on-air studios by August 10, just in time to re-build prior to the start of fall classes. “I’ve been assigned room 1313 of the 13th floor along with my student Marketing Director,” McMullen-Boyer said, “I’m not terribly superstitious, but I’m anxious for to see a thunderstorm from our new vantage point.”