Twenty five years of educational radio: VL2UV and its world

Twenty five years ago, VL2UV, the first campus-based educational radio station in the southern hemisphere began operating from the University of New South Wales, and in June this year we quietly stopped regular broadcasting. The only response was a sympathy card sent by one of the other technical units on campus, who felt the technical loss if nothing else. Over the past few years those of us in the educational broadcasting area have found times increasingly difficult to maintain high standards of production output and a facility that is really in demand by our audience. It thus is an appropriate time with general budget uncertainty and unclear directions to examine the role of educational radio.