May 1, 1984
Pioneers radio station KEGH goes on air
When KEGH—pronounced “Keg”—hit the airwaves on May 1, 1984, the campus radio station hoped to provide a better programming line-up than its recent predecessor, KAOS, which, according to a Jan. 11, 1982, article in The Clarion, was notorious for playing “opera and acid rock.” Initially, students living in Johnson-McFarlane, Centennial Halls, and Centennial Towers could listen to music by the likes of Foreigner, Pat Benatar, Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder and benefit from a daily Jazzercise session. Like the campus stations that came before it, however, KEGH had financial problems and was forced to scale back its non-stop programming to weekday transmissions, eventually shutting down permanently. And so, in the words of Queen, “Another One Bites the Dust.”