December 1987
KLSU relocates from East Tiger Stadium to Hodges Hall.
Jenni Lawson, former KLSU music director from 1987 to 1989, describes the KLSU office in East Tiger Stadium and the move into Hodges Hall. Jennifer "Jenni" Lawson Oral History Interview, Mss. 4700.2591, LLMVC, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.
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JENNI LAWSON: That was my last semester at the station. We were in the East Stadium at the bottom. I still have my key to those offices. Basically it was like two wings, of two sections of the downstairs over near what's now the visiting tunnel or entrance for the visiting team. On one side, as you go through the door, there was a coke room. Then the news office. Then a newsroom, which is where all the production for the news went. And then the tiny little control room, and a production room. On the other side, which had a different door there, was the traffic director's office, the music director and chief announcer's office. The station manager and operation direct . . . manager's office, then a bathroom. And there was a dorm room, so sometimes we had somebody living there. We moved basically across the parking lot. I don't think it's the same studios they're in now. Because we were basically on . . . If you're in the back of Hodges Hall it was in the wing to your right and I think they're on the wing to the left now. No?
CHARLOTTE WILLCOX: They're still on the right.
LAWSON: Oh okay. But that station allowed for a really nice control room, a really nice production room next to it, very well insulated windows. There was much to-do built around the, "We have bulletproof windows to the outside." And I was like, "Is that a problem we've been looking at? I don't think so. We've never even locked the station hardly. But now we have bullet proof windows." And then I remember a great big newsroom and one big shared office for everybody with this chief announcer and . . . everybody was in one big office from what I remember. And then there was another big work room that, I think was off to the library. It wasn't home. East Stadium was home. More than it should have been. [laughs]
Jenni Lawson, former KLSU music director from 1987 to 1989, describes the KLSU office in East Tiger Stadium and the move into Hodges Hall. Jennifer "Jenni" Lawson Oral History Interview, Mss. 4700.2591, LLMVC, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.
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JENNI LAWSON: That was my last semester at the station. We were in the East Stadium at the bottom. I still have my key to those offices. Basically it was like two wings, of two sections of the downstairs over near what's now the visiting tunnel or entrance for the visiting team. On one side, as you go through the door, there was a coke room. Then the news office. Then a newsroom, which is where all the production for the news went. And then the tiny little control room, and a production room. On the other side, which had a different door there, was the traffic director's office, the music director and chief announcer's office. The station manager and operation direct . . . manager's office, then a bathroom. And there was a dorm room, so sometimes we had somebody living there. We moved basically across the parking lot. I don't think it's the same studios they're in now. Because we were basically on . . . If you're in the back of Hodges Hall it was in the wing to your right and I think they're on the wing to the left now. No?
CHARLOTTE WILLCOX: They're still on the right.
LAWSON: Oh okay. But that station allowed for a really nice control room, a really nice production room next to it, very well insulated windows. There was much to-do built around the, "We have bulletproof windows to the outside." And I was like, "Is that a problem we've been looking at? I don't think so. We've never even locked the station hardly. But now we have bullet proof windows." And then I remember a great big newsroom and one big shared office for everybody with this chief announcer and . . . everybody was in one big office from what I remember. And then there was another big work room that, I think was off to the library. It wasn't home. East Stadium was home. More than it should have been. [laughs]
