Perfect Mix at Cal State Radio

KCSN had a good thing going: a perfect combination of different styles of music throughout the day to satisfy everyone. My parents listened in the daytime to jazz, country, classical, and I catered to a different crowd at night as one of the DJs on the rock shift.

The rock shift was a place where new bands got a chance to be heard by the public and the public got a chance to hear new upcoming performers as well as older familiar (or unfamiliar) bands who never got air play on commercial stations. Younger disc jockeys got a chance to exercise their talent and explore the world of music from a very eclectic source.

I think the rock shift was needed desperately in a city where capitalization is everything. We did it because Los Angeles needed a station that played anything, whether popular or not. None of the rock DJs got paid or expected to get paid, but we did our best to satisfy our listeners.

Many of our listeners were college students and, since KCSN began and grew on the Cal State Northridge campus (as even the call letters prove), I think it should cater at least in part to Cal State Northridge students. Our station should not be all country, nor should it be all rock or all anything. It was fine the way it was. Leave it alone!

AMANDA RORABACK

Woodland Hills