Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981
Space Limits Activity
Space Limits Activity
One of the biggest problems, which also thwarts Radio Active's aim to run all year, is lack of space. The area Radio Active currently occupy in the student UNION Building is cramped to building of a production studio is essential if Radio Active is to increase its productivity to a full year service. Fowler points out however that the Union Building is not designed to expand at all. Lack of experienced technical staff also poses a problem. Says Fowler, "Victoria doesn't have an Engineering Department so there's no budding engineers around to help." Another problem related to finances, lack of space and experienced technical staff, is equipment. (With more money, space and technical staff, Active could build or buy better equipment. Active is comparatively limited in this sphere as it operates on only l/10th of the buying capacity of other stations.) As Fowler puts it, "things have to be done on the cheap."
Radio Active could overcome these problems and if students were willing to pay a bigger levy, running full time would be viable in the near future. Fowler says, "There's a lot of scope which we haven't yet explored, for example in the area of current affairs and talk back shows."
Latika Vasil