Category Spotlight

2 Oct

Spotlight: Spinnaker TV

4 Sep

Spotlight: DePauw University’s WGRE

Thanks to Station Manager Caitlin Hutchinson for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? WGRE first began broadcasting in 1941 and was established as the first 10-watt FM college radio station in the country in 1949. Today WGRE is the largest student organization at DePauw […]

28 Aug

Spotlight: UW Whitewater’s WSWU

Thanks to Station Manager Andrew Manthey for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? WSUW has been on the air since 1966. Originally, our station was in Old Main until a fire burned the iconic building to the ground in 1970. Our station then rebuilt […]

14 Aug

Spotlight: Oregon State University’s KBVR

  Thanks to Station Manager Matt Walton for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? KBVR-FM was founded in 1965 with 10 watts of power and a broadcast radius of around five miles. Originally broadcasting from Shepard Hall, KBVR relocated to Snell Hall in 1977 […]

7 Aug

Spotlight: University of Alabama at Birmingham’s BlazeRadio

Special thanks to General Manager Kayla Gladney for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? BlazeRadio started in 2008 in our Office of Student Media, which also houses our newspaper (Kaleidoscope) and literary magazine (Aura). In its humble beginnings, BlazeRadio was designed to give students […]

31 Jul

Spotlight: University of Puget Sound’s KUPS

Special thanks to General Manager Chloe Ginnegar for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? KUPS began in 1968 as a closed-circuit AM experiment. In 1975 KUPS became a 10-Watt FM station, and in 1983 blossomed into a fully operational, 100-watt FM station. KUPS has […]

24 Jul

Spotlight: Linfield College’s KSLC

Special thanks to Station Adviser Michael Huntsberger, Ph.D., Jerry Young, 2013-2014 Station Manager, and Jeremy Odden, current Technical Director for answering the questions. Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? KSLC is a noncommercial educational broadcast radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to the Board of […]

17 Jul

Spotlight: SCAD Atlanta’s SCAD Atlanta Radio

Special thanks to Matthew Rusak, General Manager, for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? The station was started in the fall of 2007 by a handful of ambitious SCAD Atlanta students. We are still a very young station but we have learned a great […]

10 Jul

Spotlight: University of the Incarnate Word’s KUIW

Special thanks to Christopher Reyes, Sports and Operations Director, for answering the questions. Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? KUIW started in the spring of 2005. Since then KUIW has progressed and evolved into a division one radio station. KUIW members “DJ” majority of the campus events. […]

3 Jul

Spotlight: Indiana State University’s WISU

Special thanks to Rich Green, station manager and instructor, for answering the questions! Tell me a little history about your station and where your station is now? 89.7 WISU is currently in its 50th year of operations at Indiana State University. We will be celebrating our 50th anniversary during Homecoming in October. WISU has gone […]