While the past year has challenged media outlets, there have been a few bright spots for KUVO.
Last year, the jazz station at 89.3 FM which had been based at the Five Points Media Center since 1994 and its hip-hop channel, the Drop, officially moved into the Buell Public Media Center, at 2101 Arapahoe Street. Offically, the new center also houses Rocky Mountain PBS, Rocky Mountain Public Media, the Colorado Media Collaborative and the Community Media Center, although most employees of those outlets are working remotely.
Tina Cartagena, KUVO’s senior vice president of radio and new media, who has been with the station since 1990, says that because of COVID-19, most of KUVO’s staff are still working from home, though the offices are open to on-air hosts and engineers. Other staff could start working on site in May. Eventually, KUVO will broadcast concerts from the building s Bonfils-Stanton Performance Studio.
Posted by Jan Wondra | Dec 11, 2020
Journalists are not immune from the grief we cover. Sometimes we are carrying our own, personal sadness even as we do our best to represent the people and the communities we serve and the very real trauma we cover.
This has never been more true than it has this past year. We barely got over throwing every resource we had at covering the Decker Fire (a seven-day-a week, week-after-week task just as the firefighters and first responders experienced, for which we received three Colorado Press Association awards for excellence) when we began to move into training to cover what we expected would be (and has been) a brutal 2020 election where fact-based news media have been on the front lines of truth.