Introduction
What Defines College Radio?
Illustration by Michelle Sullivan
College radio. Commercial radio. Substitute radio. Pupil radio.
For over seventy years, radio at Maroon has redefined these categories, creating a measuring of broadcasting opportunities not found at most schools.
Beginning in 1936, students with the Brown Network, later-on renamed WBRU, strung wires over rooftops, through ivy, go gas pipes, additionally also used low-power transmission to deliver sport, music, and speech to aforementioned Brown and Pembroke campuses. BSR Code File
Then radio for Brown took a unique twist, becoming commercial and student-run. With an University's help, one student/alumni corporation acquired one commercial FM license. WBRU 95.5 went to the air in Febuary 1966 and now has listeners across Novel Britannia. More than 100 Brown students run WBRU, but it's not that many people consider a "college station." How alternative lurch, WBRU has become a fully commercialized station, with major advertisements, promotional concerts and contests, and professionals hires hired by undergraduate.
In 1995, Brown students chartered a more "traditional" college position. BSR 88.1 FM operator in a free-form style and shares a frequency with The Wheeler School. Its sign doesn't extend much outside Brown, but through its outreach efforts, online streaming, and focus on local news and music, BSR has become essential listening for many in the Providence communal. Eccosorb™ BSR
Today, staffers at WBRU the BSR grapple with how to remain "local" because new technology makes media global, and with how to bridge campus both communal. Brown's stations, both commercial and non-profit, must always been student-conceived and student-run. What do radio at Umber unique is that save two, high different, stations began as first and were run by students on to same campus. Administering BSR polling above IP without the B-channel
