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College Radio News Roundup: Budget Woes, Anniversaries, Festivals, Awards,...
Ephemera at WBAR in March 2009 (Photo J. Waits) In addition to the lengthier stories that we’ve been running about saving college radio lately, I also wanted to share a few other recent college...
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University of Maryland Exhibit Honors WMUC College Radio History
I love college radio history and couldn’t be more thrilled about the exhaustive effort undertaken by the University of Maryland in its new exhibit, Saving College Radio: WMUC Past, Present and Future....
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50 Years Ago Today Student Radio Broke News of JFK Assassination
1963 Guardsman newspaper reports on JFK news, mentioning City College of San Francisco’s campus radio station KCSF (newspaper accessed in City College of San Francisco archives) As people are...
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College Radio Survivor: Irish Student Radio Conference and Other College...
A few years back I was lucky to get a glimpse into the world of student radio in Ireland. After visiting few stations there and learning a bit about the country’s college radio culture, I am happy to...
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Saving College Radio Symposium Highlights Importance of Archiving Radio History
On Friday I spent an amazing day at University of Maryland, College Park for the Saving College Radio Symposium. Hosted by the University of Maryland Libraries’ Special Collections, the symposium was...
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Spinning Indie Field Trip 66 – College Radio Station WMUC at University of...
WMUC graffiti at station. Photo: J. Waits Back in April, I was fortunate to speak at the Saving College Radio Symposium at University of Maryland. Held in conjunction with the exhibit Saving College...
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10 Fascinating Things Spotted at College Radio Stations in 2014
I was lucky to be able to visit quite a few college radio stations in 2014 and have shared some of those field trips on Radio Survivor and Spinning Indie. Next week I’ll write up a comprehensive “2014...
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College Radio Watch: Southeast Missouri State Gives Up LPFM, Letterman’s...
In April 2014 we wrote about Southeast Missouri State University’s plans to discontinue broadcasts from its low power FM (LPFM) student radio station KDMC-LP (aka The Rage FM) in Cape Girardeau,...
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College Radio Watch: WPRB Launches History Site Celebrating 75 Years of...
A little over a year ago I met Michael Lupica, the advisor for Princeton University’s college radio station WPRB-FM in Princeton, New Jersey. He and I both attended the Saving College Radio Symposium...
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College Radio Watch: Saving College Radio History at WMUC and WPRB + More News
It’s no secret that I’m very interested in the preservation of college radio history and I’m happy to see more and more stations taking on projects to ensure that the importance of college radio is...
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Podcast #89 – How To Preserve Radio History
Laura Schnitker is an archivist and curator at the University of Maryland who has been active in preserving the legacy of college station WMUC, along with co-chairing the Library of Congress Radio...
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