NPR's First President Comes to Utah State University

National Public Radio’s first president and Utah State University graduate will be on the USU campus to celebrate the one year anniversary of the student radio station, Fusion HD3.

Donald R. Quayle will speak Friday, April 17, at the David B. Haight Alumni Center at 2 p.m.

Quayle started his career in public broadcasting at USU, where, as an undergraduate student, he helped put Utah’s first educational radio station on the air.

 

“It is an honor to have such a distinguished alumni come speak to us,” Clark Anderson, Fusion’s current station director said. “The students are really looking forward to his arrival.”

 

Quayle’s visit is sponsored by Utah Public Radio and Logan Regional Hospital. A small celebration outside the Fusion HD3 studio, located on the 3rd floor of the Taggart Student Center, will take place at 1 p.m., where Quayle will speak briefly. Quayle will give a formal presentation at the David B. Haight Alumni Center from 2-3 p.m. A question and answer session follows his speech. The event is open to the public.

 

After being absent at Utah State for decades, student radio has resurfaced, and has been broadcasting since April 2008. Since its revival, a radio class was established in the Department of Journalism and Communication. The station was funded through a grant from Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Fusion HD3 was originally created to teach students how to professionally operate a radio station.

 

Today, Fusion continues to bring education and radio together. Fusion radio is the only station in Cache Valley run for the students, by the students. Fusion is an open format station, and can heard online.

 

Utah Public Radio 

Writer: Jeremy Schumann
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