Dear Friends,
It was almost 20 years ago (February 8, 2001) that I, along with the rest of KUNC’s staff at the time, learned that the University of Northern Colorado Board of Trustees was planning on selling the license of KUNC to Colorado Public Radio the following day. To say the news came as a shock is an understatement.
The morning after the pending sale was made public, nearly thirty members of the KUNC listening community appeared before the trustees. They asked the board to reconsider then UNC President Hank Brown’s recommendation to sell the license. After hearing emotional stories from several listeners explaining how important KUNC was to them, the board announced it would put out an RFP for the sale of the license with a deadline of Wednesday, February 28.