In a public letter posted last week regarding the sale of Rice University radio station KTRU, President David Leebron cited the station’s low Arbitron numbers among reasons Rice was selling the station to the University of Houston. The meager Arbitrons were one of Leebron’s first reasons listed in his letter. I already addressed a few [...]

Rice University and University of Houston officials, who negotiated the sale of KTRU’s broadcast license to migrate KUHF’s classical music to a new station, KUHC, have made several mistakes. Some of these missteps along the way include possibly illegal maneuvering and, at least, dodginess (“Rice ‘was concerned about why it would go public and even said, [...]