Mallory's Story—Flintoff Launches Fusion Radio

NPR Reporter Launches USU Student Radio Station
By Mallory Hughes

Corey Flintoff left the Foreign Desk at UPR to venture to Logan this week to visit the campus and help Utah State’s student radio station, Fusion HD3, “flip the switch” and start streaming.

Flintoff began his visit by visiting classrooms to give students the chance to ask questions about the Iraq war, a topic he was asked to speak on Wednesday.

Flintoff’s main reason for visiting Utah State was to support the student station on campus by lending a hand.

The kick off began with an introduction of the processes the station has gone through to get to the point they have reached by Cathy Ives, station director at UPR.

“I’m really proud of the students,” Ives stated as she spoke on-air and to the group gathered to witness the kick-off.

The small crowd stood anxiously awaiting the kick-off in the lobby area just outside of the station on the 3rd floor of the TSC.

After regards from Ives, Flintoff stood with his hand hovering dramatically over the switch signaling the kick off, but just before he flipped it he joked, “now everybody watch out, who knows what’s going to come out of this thing.”

Flintoff “flipped the switch” and the stream began pouring out of the small computer set-up where the group gathered and applause erupted from the small crowd.

Clark Anderson, Fusion HD3 director, gave the introduction to the official streaming by giving a short timeline of the events that took place leading to the first official stream.

The station is currently running on the radio homepage at radio.usu.edu, but when the high definition connections get figured out it will be the 3rd sub-channel of UPR, just as the name of the station indicated.

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