KTRU owner Rice University is selling KTRU (91.7) to the University of Houston for $9.5 million, which will put many station volunteers and programmers on the street. Now Pacifica’s KPFT (90.1) offers them a home. GM Duane Bradley and PD Ernesto Aguilar post an open letter to “KTRU DJs and friends”, offering them “full autonomy” to program the soon-to-re-launch HD-2 channel of KPFT. Pacifica says “it is with great sadness that we observe the fate facing KTRU, a Houston cultural institution that blazed trails.” More about the gesture by Pacifica on the Houston Board of Radio-Info, here.