KNSU HISTORY
The campus radio station first went on the air on Feb. 19, 1972, as KVFG-FM. It became the third college radio station in Louisiana to broadcast on open airwaves with FCC authorization. It rushed to get on the air a few hours ahead of a similar station at LSUNO. In early April the station added a United Press International news wire.
The "VFG" in its name stood for President Vernon F. Galliano until Jan. 23, 1985, when it became KNSU after the Coast Guard agreed to give up those call letters.
The station began on the second floor of Peltier Hall but moved to the first floor of Talbot Hall in 1990. It has always been managed and financed by students, and students have consistently been the announcers, interviewers and disc jockeys.
Through the years it has concentrated on news and music, with musical tastes varying from time to time. In the late 1980s, the station used such nicknames or slogans as "Banana" and "The Edge."
Students in Speech 219 pioneered by broadcasting from 234 Peltier in February 1968 as FNSC, but it was over telephone wires to the student union.