- - On the lower level of the McFarland Student Union building, the red “On Air” light glows. Campus turns the dial to 1670 AM, alumni open their TuneIn app and students lean into the micro phone, sending their morning playlist out into the world. Tis year marks the 20th anniversary of the reboot of Kutztown University’s radio station, KUR. Te studentrun station once disappeared from the airwaves and was brought back to life by a group of determined students and the station’s manager, Mike Regensburger ’99 (pictured at right). Early Days KUR’s origin story begins in the 1960s, when college radio stations across the country served as underground hubs for new music and student voices. BY ASH NAVE ’17 CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE KURADIO’S REVIVAL Alongside the late and and his friends were the frst to bring the airwaves to KU’s campus. “We had no clue what we were doing. No money. No experience. And we really didn’t know how this was going to work, but we thought it would be cool to have a radio station at Kutztown,” Bullock says. Tough he never spoke on air, Bullock was the station’s chief engineer and built it from scratch in the basement of the Multicultural Center. “We had two of the old reel to reel tape recorders and three record players, and our panel board came from Lehigh University, which was just a piece of aluminum with holes in it,” he says. “I had to wire the whole thing myself.” Bullock says that his experience with KUR helped shape his professional and personal life. “Working with a team, being held accountable, and solving problems no one else could – that added a lot of value to me and my professional life.” 22TOWER | FALL2025 Joseph Hipp ’67 Peter Schmelzer, Ted Bullock ’67 Working with a team, being held accountable, and solving problems no one else could—that added a lot of value to me and my professional life. – TED BULLOCK ’67 TOWER FALL 2025
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