Loyola has a new voice, but it won’t be coming through on your radio. It’s arriving on campus via the Internet.

Communications junior Matt Johnson along with Bobby Hjortsberg, psychology/pre-med junior and Arts & Sciences president; Brandon Thibodeaux, business junior and College of Business president; and Loyola athletic director Jerry Hernandez, is working on getting a charter through the Student Government Association to start the Loyola Internet Radio Station.

By going through the SGA and not the communications department, the radio station will be treated like a club.

This means it can elect its own officers.

But even though the program will be run through SGA, the program adviser will be communications professor Lisa Martin.

“Most of the Communications Department has a problem with the radio station because of problems in the past with other attempts,” Johnson said, “so basically they wanted nothing to do with us. It’s more beneficial to go through SGA. I feel it will be less restricted.”

The station will be run from the basement of the Danna Center and will feature a program line up that will run twenty-four hours a day.

The Danna Center basement was the location of the old radio station in the ’80s.

Like their predecessors, Johnson and company plan to challenge the boundaries of student-run radio broadcasts, but unlike the ’80s show, they say they won’t engage in any mischievous acts while on the air.

“A big problem with radio stations in the past was misconduct on the air,” Johnson said. “We will have rules, and we will stick by them.”

The new station will be hosted on several servers, and the domain name to be used is the third largest site for Internet radio stations.

While the charter hasn’t been secured yet, Johnson says he feels confident that it will pull through.

“It benefits everyone,” he said. “It has a good chance of working because we’re not restricting it to just communication majors, or just music majors.”