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KVCH
Ten Years Running
by Danté Perez
Valley Christian High School’s
radio station, KVCH, began with the vision of a handful of people
at Valley Christian School in 1995, during the formation of the Web.
A decade later Valley celebrated ten years of the KVCH vision, and
student creativity.
These VC visionaries wanted to create a working audio station run
by students. They were not able to obtain an FM or AM signal; there
were simply none available in the Bay Area at the time. However, being
located in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of High Technology has its
advantages. Attending a conference by the creators of Real Audio,
VC’s Dr. Cliff Daugherty, Werner Vavken and Brian Kaelin came across
a vehicle to reach not only a potential local audience, but in fact,
the entire world.
Real Audio was launching its service, and VCHS jumped on board, creating
KVCH Radio, the world’s first high school Internet radio station.
This student-run web radio station played an eclectic collection of
music, from Christian standards to rock, R&B, etc. The station
began getting fan emails from all over the world, and even did talk
shows with listeners from as far away as Australia.
It’s ironic, and interesting to note that the software giant, Microsoft,
was just then developing its “Internet strategy,” (being very late
to the party)…. And the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee
had launched the very first web page just a couple years earlier at
the CERN think tank in Switzerland; God’s vision for Valley Christian
High School was already being realized through three VCHS visionaries
who saw the web as their vehicle to reach the entire planet.
The radio pioneers also traveled to Washington, D.C. for broadcasts,
and put the Billy Graham Crusade’s visit to the Bay Area “on the air.”
It was an ambitious group making the most of being in the right place
at the right time. A decade later their efforts have led to a rapidly
expanding Communications Department, which now produces a live daily
newscast via cable to Valley Christian High School. Valley Christian
students also now regularly use the Internet to produce regular live
video webcasts of key VC sports contests, such as football, volleyball,
water polo, soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball.
The next step in this audio and video evolution is to use the web
to offer audio and video “podcasts” for listeners and viewers to listen
to on demand. But it all began with a dream in 1995. A vision of what
students could do if given the right tools and the opportunity to
create.
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