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College of the Desert radio station, KCOD, is on the move. Literally.

While it may be just a stones throw from the main campus, it’s a move that will give students real-world experience that can’t be measured in distance.

It’s what is now the new home of KCOD, at Monterey and Park View in Palm Desert.

Media Professor Laurilie Jackson says the station started in 2011 from humble beginnings on campus with only a handful of students, in what can only be described as a closet. Their new home, also a former radio station, is now a multi-media center.

“We can work many different media departments together in one building,” says Jackson.

This fall will be the highest enrollment for media studies at the college.

“They’re going to learn how to shoot videos, shoot film, how to

College of the Desert Radio Station on the Move