Aaron Brodie

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  About RTNDA - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/9/2001    Last Visited: 8/7/2002  

  Aaron Brodie, KNTU-FM

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  CNN.com - Satellite radio lifting off - July 24, 2001 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/14/2001    Last Visited: 1/6/2002  

  "That's the question," said Aaron Brodie, chief engineer and news manager for KNTU-FM in the Dallas suburb of Denton.
  
  "When you get downtown there will be buildings blocking and reflecting.People may find their radios are cutting on or off."
  
  Brodie said the new satellite radio might end up with the same problem that has plagued old-fashioned AM radio: drop out.
  
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  And Brodie thinks satellite radio listeners could miss important information.
  
  "You won't know if there is a major storm heading your way, or a traffic tie up," he said.
  
  But he added competition from satellite radio could challenge local stations to offer listeners more programming and fewer commercials.
  
  "Traditional radio is going to have really rethink what it's doing," said Brodie."Maybe they'll get back to the good old radio days."

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  Published on: 4/29/2008    Last Visited: 4/29/2008  

  Aaron Brodie, News Manager, KNTU Radio

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  DentonRC.com | News for Denton, Texas | Entertainment - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/27/2005    Last Visited: 3/27/2005  

  The project is called The Green Room, and if everything goes as planned, KNTU News Director and Engineer Aaron Brodie hopes a once-a-week, hour-long show featuring local music will premiere later this spring.
  
  "That might be wishful thinking at this point, but we're hoping to get it up and going at the end of the spring term," Brodie said.
  
  The Green Room will air recordings of live music in Denton, Dallas and Fort Worth.
  
  First, though, KNTU (that's 88.1 on the FM band) needs a little help from bands.
  
  Brodie has put out the call for local music CDs and demos.Local bands interested in having a crew from the station record a live gig are invited to mail their recordings to the radio station.
  
  "We wouldn't be taking a CD produced in a studio by a local band," Brodie said."What we want to do is get out in the venues that have bands performing, and recording the performances.We have to get approvals from the band to record them and then air the performances, but we also have to get approval from the venues.That's what we're in the process of doing right now, going around to the venues and getting their approval to go in and record."
  
  Brodie said there hasn't been a live local music show from the radio station for years.When KNTU was broadcasting out of a house near campus, it produced a local show called Seeds.Local legends like Brave Combo and Ten Hands would visit the studio and play live on the air.
  
  "There are a few local music shows on some other stations, but I don't know of any that do this, record live performances and then air them," Brodie said."A lot of it's going to be test the waters and see.I don't think anyone's doing this on a regular basis."
  
  Though The Green Room is still in development, Brodie said he'd like to keep 50 percent of the recordings in Denton venues.
  
  "This show is about local music, and we while we will probably do some stuff in Deep Ellum, we don't want that to be the focus.We want to be involved with Denton," he said.
  
  KNTU is known mostly for its broad jazz format and classical music, with students proposing and developing shows that typically end when the students directing them move on.The Green Room will be a station-driven program that will allow a revolving door of students to take part.
  
  "We told the students that this is not about going on the air and being a DJ," Brodie said.
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  This will be a way for them to learn how to do that," Brodie said.
  
  Brodie also looks at The Green Room as a radio show for students.Students support local music, and students are often the musicians making the music.The show will be open to all genres.
  
  "I can see us expanding beyond a one-hour format pretty quickly," Brodie said.
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  Nightclub owners can call KNTU-FM News Director and Chief Engineer Aaron Brodie at 940-565-4188 if they are interested in having the station record shows in their clubs.

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  DentonRC.com | News for Denton, Texas | Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/8/2008    Last Visited: 7/21/2005  

  "The students do everything on their own," KNTU news manager Aaron Brodie said.
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  Brodie said broadcasting a football game usually involves about 10 students actually on hand at the game, along with several others going to other games in the area to call in scoring updates, strictly on a volunteer basis.
  
  "Back when KNTU started doing broadcasts, it gave students the opportunity to learn how to do play-by-play," he said."It's a very difficult thing to learn how to do play-by-play, but we've had several guys go on to have careers in the field," including University of Texas play-by-play commentator Craig Way and UNT play-by-play commentator George Dunham, Brodie said.
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  Brodie also added how thrilled he is to build on the station's relationship with the Denton school district.
  
  "We already broadcast school board meetings and do emergency announcements, like school closings, for them," Brodie said.

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  DentonRC.com | News for Denton, Texas | Local News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/24/2005    Last Visited: 4/24/2005  

  Lambert and Aaron Brodie, KNTU's news director, chief engineer and audio engineer, said they'd like North Texas Jukebox to be a program fixture.
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  "As long as there's someone to host, I'd like to see this keep going," Brodie said.
  
  Brodie said student focus groups didn't know what to make of Jukebox because the idea of a station format not bound by genre is unheard of in contemporary radio.
  
  "I was like, 'C'mon guys.Think outside the box here,'" Brodie said.
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  Brodie said the station hopes to find another responsible host once Schectman graduates in August.He will host and produce the show through the summer.
  
  "We're real happy with Mark," Brodie said.

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  North Texas Daily - KNTU seeks new transmitter; adds... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/21/2003    Last Visited: 1/21/2003  

  Aaron Brodie, chief engineer, got the station back up and running at 15,000 watts.
  
  The station, which broadcasts as far north as McKinney, but primarily to the Denton and Dallas/Ft.Worth area, normally runs at 100,000 watts, the highest power allowed for a radio station.
  
  All this really means, according to Brodie and Jayda Seibert, Garland junior and the new assistant program director, is that the station is not up to full power to the south of its normal broadcast area.
  
  "Dallas has more static than what it would normally have," Brodie said."The reach is still fairly good."
  
  The station will begin a pledge drive to raise money for a new transmitter on Feb. 25.
  
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  "We're continuing to expand our partnership with Channel 8," Brodie said.
  
  The news department is also trying to get Channel 8 meteorologists to air weather forecasts.
  
  The station now has an agreement with the city of Denton for extended weather coverage.
  
  "KNTU is the station to listen to for severe weather," Brodie said.
  
  "When the city sounds the sirens, we have wall-to-wall coverage."
  
  The news department will soon be on the leading edge of technology with a new computer system.
  
  "It will put us ahead of radio stations in Dallas," Brodie said.
  
  Lambert said the purpose of the station is two-fold in that the station must maintain the level of quality while serving as a training ground for students.
  
  end of article dingbatThe station must also maintain the NT's image as well as the image of the Metroplex. "Nobody does what we do," he said.

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  North Texas Daily - KNTU wins best student radio award - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/5/2002    Last Visited: 7/5/2002  

  Aaron Brodie, news manager and chief engineer, submitted copies of a co-anchored half-hour newscast of "Late Edition" by NT students Jacob Jones and Kim Nguyen.
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  "What our students are doing is just as good as what professionals are doing [and] reminds me that they must be teaching the right thing," Brodie said.
  
  "I'm glad the students are able to win awards."
  
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  "She and I went down [to the State Fair] the last day," Brodie said, "She interviewed the guy that was the voice of Big Tex and interviewed people about what they thought of the [miniature] White House exhibit."
  
  Brodie said Jones was able to work five days a week as a student news director at KNTU and get the experience of what it will be like working in any other news radio station.
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  "What is more rewarding to me is that Jones was hired full-time at KRLD-AM, 1080, and a lot of the students are working in D-FW," Brodie said.

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  North Texas Daily- YOUR CAMPUS CONNECTION - KNTU adds... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/12/2003    Last Visited: 9/12/2003  

  Aaron Brodie, chief engineer and news manager, said KNTU has established a strong partnership with WFAA-TV, Channel 8 news that enables them to use their material.
  
  "Channel 8 is a tremendous boost because sometimes we can't get information on our own," he said.

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  San Angelo Standard-Times - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/21/2004    Last Visited: 10/22/2004  

  (Thanks to Kara Brock and Aaron Brodie of KNTU)

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