"We operate using 17,000 CDs that DJs pick and play. It'd be pretty impossible to sanitize 17,000 CDs after every shift." Darby Ottoson, student program director for the University of Minnesota's Radio K, frantically called Julian Green, the DJ in the booth hosting his usual Sunday show. "When your shift ends in 12 minutes, you need to turn on overnight mix and go home," she told him.
The DJ for the next shift was walking into the building, and Ottoson instructed her to turn around. "It was hard," she says.
Since that Sunday, March 14, a day before the college canceled all classes and campus activities, the 108-year-old Radio K has broadcast an elaborate playlist, with pre-recorded ads and public-service announcements, all programmed