This article i am sharing with you is about a school program where i received my training for Radio & TV Broadcasting. Scarlet Oaks Vocational School is where i took this course the last two years of High School. Scarlet Oaks Voc. School is located in Sharonville, Ohio and caters to many vocation’s such as culinary arts, law enforcement, computer aided drafting just to name a few. Scarlet Oaks is a branch of a number of vocational schools operating under the name Great Oaks Vocational Schools. The various branches teach many vocations and offers students a hands on approach to real life training.
Scarlet Oaks owns a radio station operating on 88.3 fm with 175 watts and shares it’s frequency with WAIF-FM Cincinnati Ohio.
The school board announced they will be pulling the plug on the Radio and Television program which has been operating since 1979. Apparently other high school “student operated” stations have already closed down and WJVS-FM will be no different. I learned valuable lessons those two years at WJVS-FM and made some great friends along the way.
I will truly miss the program and the great WJVS-FM.
Here is the article:http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2012/04/30/scarlet-oaks-wjvs-fm-signing-off/
Remembering
Rock,
It is always sad when such things from one’s past go away. You are probably replaying many memories.
I remember the Vocational Center as I taught several ham radio classes there. At the time I was living in Montgomery so a quick trip west on Pfeiffer road was a pretty easy commute. I also recall spending an entire night in Sharonville after a contractor cut a cable and killed the phone service for most of the area. Our ham radio ARPSC was summoned by the PD to station operators at many intersections to provide emergency communications for the residents. Many of our ham activities centered around the Vocational Center.
I don’t recall if at this time the student station was on the air since I didn’t pay much attention to broadcast. Anyway, the program lives on in you.
Neil
Buy It
Non-commercial stations can be sold, and therefore, bought.
The local school station (12.5kW) sold for $1M to a religious group who boosted the power to 100kW, but diminished the programming to “Nothing for the public.”
Get in there and buy the station from the Vocational Center.
Vocational Memories
Neil,
Your right about the memories, i have been thinking back to what i learned and of course the friends i made. You mentioned ham radio classes, by any chance was this around 88 -89?
As senior’s we would have the pleasure of planning the open house event’s. Open House was for future students and family of current students to see what goes on behind the scenes. The radio and television class and studios would have been on the ground floor.
Any chance you held those classes in the evenings?
Night classes were often held in class rooms after school hours there is an off chance we crossed paths and didn’t know it.
Crossed Paths?
…by any chance was this around 88 -89?
Sorry, but I taught the ham classes there about 10 years prior to this. It would have been good to have crossed paths but I left the Cincy area in 1988.
Neil
It’s a little sad when a special station goes away
On Cape Cod, Massachusetts, there was
a class A FM on 104.9 that was run by
one guy. It was just one guy. There was
nobody else there. It was just him.
His station had a very loyal following.
I think the story is that this guy’s
health was deteriorating, so he sold it.
There were a lot of people that were sad
about that one, too.
Bruce, DOGGRADIO STUDIO 2
Could It Be
I think I remember that station. The guy supplied the only classical music in the area, and if it’s the story I read about, a large corporation tried to use their muscle to steal the license from him, but his followers rose up in his defense. Is that the same story?