Reno Dudley didn’t know the sign was going up when he walked into the Austin Community College Highland campus one day in May. On his way into the studio, he just happened to catch those big, bold letters finally going up on the outside of the building: KAZI 88.7 FM.
“I sat there and I was like, ‘Oh, wow, we really did this,” Dudley said. “‘We really pulled this off.’”
The sign reveal was the last step in a 6-year transition for Austin’s only Black community radio station. The station, which is funded through donations and grants, did a fine job producing a blend of fresh music and educational talk shows from its old location in East Austin. But Dudley – the station manager, who oversees a team of five paid employees — said the ACC location primes the station to start expanding…