With empty campuses, college radio stations face uphill battle during the coronavirus pandemic
: “Those kids are still grinding it out and trying to make it work and they’re still passionate about music.”
Many college stations have adapted, using remote, pre-programmed broadcasts and stretching university funds to get them through this uniquely low-revenue period: Radio K has a"student-services-fee chunk of money that helps support us in emergencies like this," Ottoson says. "There'll be a lot of reevaluation of cost. I'm guessing you'll see an explosion of digital-only stations," says, who runs indie station RadioRadioX, near Siena College in Albany, New York, and fears for college radio's future."A lot of stations are going to be able to go on for a long time on auto-pilot, but eventually you'll really see this shake up the industry.
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