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College Radio Survivor: Revealing History of St. Joseph’s Pioneering College Radio Station

College radio history is largely undocumented, with much lore locked away in the memories of its participants. Glimpses of the past can be found by digging into the archives of student publications, particularly yearbooks and newspapers, where radio activities were often chronicled. Luckily for college radio history buffs like myself, it’s getting easier and easier […]

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Newly Granted College and High School LPFMs are Next Wave of Student Broadcasters

Last week the FCC began granting new LPFM applications and so far, it has granted several applications for new LPFM college, high school, and middle school radio stations. I profiled two of the college stations, Washington College and York Technical College, in College Radio Survivor on Friday and in this post I will run through […]

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College Radio Survivor: 2014 Starts Well, With New College Radio LPFMs on the Horizon

In this week’s College Radio Survivor, I look at two new potential LPFM stations on college campuses and recap some college radio news from the past few weeks. On Wednesday the FCC started granting new LPFM applications and in the mix of the first 107 grantees, there was one potential college radio station: York Technical […]

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FCC Begins to Grant LPFM Applications

I’m glued to REC Networks‘ LPFM application status twitter feed, as it has been lighting up over the past few hours with messages about newly granted LPFM applications. The first granted license was for Center Pole, Inc. in Montana. So far I’ve been excited to spot a college (York Technical College in Rock Hill, South […]

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College Radio Survivor: 2013 – A Year of Opportunity for College Radio

As I look back over 2013, I feel optimistic about the state of college radio, especially after a complicated 2012, a contentious 2011, and a challenging start to the 2000s. In November, 2013, I started writing weekly reports about college radio for our College Radio Survivor feature every Friday and for the most part, good news […]

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College Radio Survivor: This week’s college radio news

This week’s College Radio Survivor includes some LPFM updates, word about a rumored station sale, details on some special Christmas programming at a few stations, and information about a college station that may lose space during campus construction. As far as LPFM, a few of the recent applications from college and universities were dismissed by […]

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Radio Free America crowdfunds free streaming & community platform for college radio

Some of today’s most successful non-commercial radio stations owe much of their success to making good use of internet platforms to reach new audiences and provide ever-improving service to their own listeners. Younger listeners tend not to differentiate between a terrestrial broadcast signal and an online one, while plugged-in listeners of all ages increasingly want […]

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