{"id":466076,"date":"2026-10-14T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466076\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:20:15","slug":"ktcu-puts-students-at-the-center-of-its-growing-radio-community-tcu-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466076\/","title":{"rendered":"KTCU puts students at the center of its growing radio community \u2013 TCU 360"},"content":{"rendered":"

KTCU welcomes students, no matter their class or major, to become DJs or host their own specialty shows.<\/p>\n

The radio station, which is located in Moudy South,<\/a> hasn\u2019t always been what it is today. Geoffrey Craig<\/a> was hired as co-station manager in 2018 and joined fellow station manager Janice McCall<\/a>, who\u2019s been at the station since 2009. The two station managers knew that if they wanted to make the radio station a place where more students frequented, they had to give more power back to the students themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was here as an undergrad, there were eight total students working at the radio station,\u201d Craig said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Students work on KTCU from the newsroom. (TCU 360\/Cam Guevara)<\/p>\n

The decision to put a bigger emphasis on hearing students\u2019 voices has paid dividends, as what was once just eight student DJs working at the station in 2012-2014 has now turned into 30 DJs, while also airing 10 specialty shows throughout the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanging the music to be student-driven and getting y\u2019all back involved and letting y\u2019all have a voice in the programming has helped a lot,\u201d Craig said. The result of the increased student involvement is the community KTCU<\/a> now fosters.<\/p>\n

\"\"Balloons hung in the newsroom for KTCU. (TCU 360\/Cam Guevara)<\/p>\n

KTCU recently underwent its biggest renovation since 1980, the year Moudy South was constructed. The renovation was completed in the summer of 2025, and with a new space came new DJs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s in my blood. I know that\u2019s corny to say, but my dad was an audio engineer in LA, and before that he was a disc jockey, so I grew up around it,\u201d said Natalie Boyd, a senior sports broadcasting major who is a DJ at KTCU.<\/p>\n

Boyd, who\u2019s been around radio since she was little, knew KTCU was the place she wanted to be after attending an open house at the station last year. In the past nine months that she has been a DJ, Boyd said she has embraced the station and has felt comfortable from the beginning.<\/p>\n

KTCU has seen significant growth since Craig joined McCall in 2018, and the two station managers want to continue to prioritize student involvement and creating a comfortable space for students to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KTCU welcomes students, no matter their class or major, to become DJs or host their own specialty shows.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-466076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}