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4 unusual facts about Campus radio


Blast Radio

At the time it was the first University in the United Kingdom to feature two student radio stations within the same institution.

Blast Radio (formerly known as Tube Radio) is the student radio station for University of West London.

Honey Lingers

Released in 1991 on London Records, the album earned positive reviews from music critics and was a success on U.S. college radio stations.

Let It Bee

Released in 1988 on London Records, the album earned positive reviews from music crititcs and was a success on U.S. college radio stations.


CFFF-FM

The station, which uses the on-air name Trent Radio, was previously licensed as the campus radio station of the city's Trent University, but now operates under an independent community radio license.

David Blaustein

Blaustein continued to attend college full-time, work at both radio stations and create and co-host a popular talk show on the campus radio station, WBNY-FM, called "Misinformation." Mr. Blaustein's co-host was novelist Micah Nathan, author of Simon and Schuster's Gods of Aberdeen.

Drop the Beat

The show, a spinoff of the earlier CBC series Straight Up, starred Mark Taylor as Jeff and Merwin Mondesir as Dennis, the hosts of a hip hop show on CIBJ-FM, a fictional campus radio station in Toronto, Ontario.

KXRY

In the 1980s and '90s, college radio stations across the country had a heavy influence on the music industry, promoting "alternative rock" bands like R.E.M. and The Pixies; but KRRC took a more maverick approach, playing a wider variety of music.

Matthew Barber

Barber was born and grew up in Port Credit, which is part of Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, attending Lorne Park Secondary School before moving to Kingston, Ontario to attend Queen's University, where he volunteered at campus radio station CFRC-FM and performed at campus pubs.

SkylineFM

Skyline is run almost entirely by volunteers, and although many of them have broadcasting experience from Hospital or University radio, for many this is their first time on the radio, with training given by the station.

Urge Overkill

Produced by Butch Vig, Americruiser was widely praised, and scored a college radio hit with the lead-off track, "Ticket To LA."

WXOU

WXOU (88.3 FM) is a college radio station licensed to Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA, the station serves the metro Detroit area and Oakland County.


see also

Bladderball

It was originally a competition between the The Yale Banner, the Yale Daily News, campus humor magazine The Yale Record and campus radio station WYBC.

Campus Radio Online

Campus Radio Online is a defunct Metro Manila FM radio station and Internet radio station provided by a joint venture of two former Campus Radio DJs (John Hendrix and the Triggerman) and Pangasinan-based eRadioPortal powered by Bitstop Network Services.

DZMC

It broadcasts from the Campus Radio Station of the College of Communication Building, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Anonas Street, Sta.

Frank Portman

While a student there he hosted a program on campus radio station KALX which prominently featured local punk rock music, and met fellow DJ Jon Von Zelowitz.

Loves Ugly Children

A tape-only release (Freak Scene) of the song Good Things went on to be #1 on RDU campus radio.

Quebec Connection

The album charted on !earshot's campus radio charts in 2005, and has had airplay on CBC Radio 3.

Rachel David

While a student there, Rachel hosted a Vancouver community show called City Lights with Novus Entertainment, and was an on-air announcer with CFML-FM 107.9 The Evolution - the campus radio station of the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

The Sick-Leaves

Four singles were submitted to campus radio and all four reached the SA Top 10 chart on Tuks FM and all four reached the UJFM Top 20.

University of South Dakota

Dedicated in September 2003, the Neuharth Center houses all of the news and media organizations on campus, including the Freedom Forum’s South Dakota operations, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, the Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism, campus newspaper The Volante, campus radio station KAOR, and television station KYOT.

University Radio Essex

It was one of the original University radio stations in the United Kingdom and with the other pioneering campus radio stations at York, Brunel, Loughborough, Sussex, Surrey the door was opened in the UK for campus radio.