Early Radio Broadcasts Before KRVS

ID: 422 ~ Source: “KVOL” Call Number: O 05 C, University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, accessed February 15, 2022.

This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern

An article from the Daily Advertiser on November 19, 1940 about a SLI French Club broadcast over KVOL.

This file appears in: KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern

KRVS: Radio Voice of Southwestern – When College Radio Came to Lafayette

By Lindsey DeLaughter

In 1940, the Fine Arts building of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute (S.L.I.), Burke Hall, had an “ill-equipped radio facility” maintained by various speech departments (1). During this time, KVOL acted almost as a radio station for S.L.I. and…