Rick Alloway: A Life in Radio and the Art of Listening

Rick Alloway has spent more than forty years teaching broadcasting at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and managing 90.3 KRNU, the university's student radio station — and this summer he is retiring. He joins Randy Bretz and Dr. Marilyn Moore to trace a career that started in a high school radio program at KFOR and carried him through the ad world and back to the university, where he signed the station on before dawn and taught generations of students to find their voice. The conversation moves from the decline of AM radio to the rise of podcasts and the storytellers they freed, and settles on the question underneath it all: in an age of bots, AI, and endless feeds, how do we know what to trust? It closes, fittingly, on a mug, a marriage, and a morning cup of coffee. Recorded at The Coffee Roaster in Lincoln, Nebraska