Radio Survivor

Our radio station tour series continues with a visit to CJSF at Simon Fraser University in B.C., Canada!

Our Canadian radio station tour reports resume with a visit to CIVL-FM at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC.

Radio Station Visit #192: Campus-Community Station CHLY-FM in Nanaimo, BC, Canada - Radio Survivor “Keep Nanaimo Weird” reads a piece of artwork on the wall of CHLY 101. 7 FM, a campus and community radio station in Nanaimo, British Columbia in Canada. Affiliated with Vancouver Island University (f...

Our Canadian campus and community radio station tours continue with a visit to @chly.ca in Nanaimo, BC. CHLY-FM hosted the @ncraanrec.bsky.social conference in June, which brought together radio participants from Canada (& 1 from the U.S. and 1 from Australia). www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

Radio Station Visit #191: CFUV-FM at University of Victoria - Radio Survivor Underground is more than a metaphor for countless college radio stations which may play edgier music but are also housed beneath the earth. I’ve seen many basement digs in my travels, but none quite l...

Oh, Canada! So excited to launch my series of Canadian radio station tours. First stop is CFUV at University of Victoria. The campus & community station launched over FM 40 years ago, but there were a fascinating series of radio activities before its 1985 debut. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

Read all about @spinningindie.bsky.social 's latest college radio station tour of WESU at Wesleyan University!

Radio Station Visit #189: KYRS-FM in Spokane - Radio Survivor “Get Loud in the Library” reads the headline on a flyer posted on a table in front of KYRS-FM, a community radio station located inside Spokane Central Library in Spokane, Washington. Promoting a seri...

A match made in heaven: library + radio station. My latest @radiosurvivor.bsky.social tour is of community radio station KYRS-FM, which is located in the Spokane Central Library. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

Radio Station Visit #188: WYBCx at Yale University - Radio Survivor Around lunchtime on a warm day in September, WYBC General Manager Jules Morris and I comb through stacks of paperwork from the Yale University radio station’s files. Car horns, traffic noises, and the...

We continue our college radio station tour series with a visit to student-run WYBCx at Yale University. WYBC has a storied history, beginning over carrier current in 1941. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

Radio Station Visit #187: WCFM-FM at Williams College - Radio Survivor Perched on a shelf in the WCFM 91.9 FM studio at Williams College sit well-loved copies of Moby Dick, Ulysses, and The Idiot. Band stickers are plastered on an entry door, records and CDs are spread t...

Our intrepid college radio station tour guide continues her east coast road trip. Williams College station WCFM dates back to 1940. Its dorm basement broadcasts have included Moby Dick readathons, Russian rap and chatty talk shows. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

Podcast #346 - The Fight for College Radio at Cleveland State Station WCSB - Radio Survivor On October 3, 2025, while World College Radio Day was being celebrated all over the globe, Cleveland State University’s nearly 50-year old student-run college radio station WCSB 89.3 FM was shut down ...

On Oct 3, Cleveland State's student-run station WCSB was taken off the air & replaced by public radio programming. @xcsbcleveland.bsky.social members Liam Main and Alison Bomgardner join us to discuss the latest updates on the fight to bring back student radio. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/podc...

Our latest college radio station field trip report focuses on B-Rad, the cheerfully-named college radio station at Bennington College in Vermont. Since the history of student radio on campus was mysterious, @spinningindie.bsky.social researched and learned about B-Rad's fascinating predecessors.

Radio Station Visit #184: WRBC-FM at Bates College - Radio Survivor One of my favorite things about tuning in to terrestrial radio is hearing unlikely juxtapositions as stations fade in and out of each other. With religious radio covering much of the left side of the ...

I loved visiting Bates College radio station WRBC. The station has it all: sticker-covered walls, thrifted furniture, oodles of history, and a signal that artfully bleeds into a religious station as you enter or leave town. Article on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

Radio Station Visit #183: KXDU at University of Denver - Radio Survivor In 2009, a University of Denver Magazine profile of the school’s student radio station bore the headline, “The nine lives of DU radio.” It’s a fitting description for the ebb and flow of radio activit...

I continue to be amazed by the cool projects undertaken by college radio participants. KXDU operates from a tiny space at University of Denver and does a ton to promote the vibrant music scene on campus. Read my tour on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

Radio Station Visit #182: KRCX at Regis University - Radio Survivor A sentence on the KRCX website, “Regis University is home to Denver’s oldest college radio station,” piqued my interest and led to a journey not only through the radio station, but down many archival ...

I went down a serious rabbit hole to find the origins of the claim that Regis University is home to Denver's oldest college radio station KRCX. Learn more in my tour report on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radi...

Former WCSB participants are now operating as @xcsbcleveland.bsky.social and are sharing updates at xcsb.org about their fight for college radio.

WCSB Student Leaders and Supporters Fight Against Takeover of Cleveland State University's Student-Run College Radio Station - Radio Survivor On Friday, October 3, as World College Radio Day was being celebrated across the country and around the globe, students were locked out of their long-time home at college radio station WCSB 89.3 FM at...

Read our report on the shutdown of Cleveland State University's student-run radio station WCSB. Student leaders spoke to a packed crowd at the CBI conference @askcbi.bsky.social on Friday and are voicing their desire for FM to be returned for their use. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/wcsb...

Radio Station Visit #181: WMPG-FM at University of Southern Maine - Radio Survivor One of the first things that I noticed when I arrived at WMPG-FM in Portland, Maine was a familiar-looking three-dimensional grey cardboard sign perched in the lobby window. Hidden behind a chair and ...

College/community radio is alive and well! My new tour report features @wmpg.org at University of Southern Maine. WMPG has been in the limelight thanks to a documentary making the festival circuit. The buzz within the station was also palpable during my visit.
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Our latest college radio station tour focuses on WZLY at Wellesley College. Tour #180 from @spinningindie.bsky.social !

Radio Station Visit #179: WBRS-FM at Brandeis University - Radio Survivor “The station’s in a bit a flux,” WBRS co-General Manager Ella Thanik said apologetically, after enthusiastically greeting me at the Brandeis University college radio station around lunchtime on a Thur...

Our radio station tour series resumes with a visit to WBRS-FM at Brandeis University. Highlights include shelves of vinyl, crafty zines and Ron Burgundy cut-out adorned with station swag! www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radi...

For #CollegeRadioDay, here's an update about the 9000+ item college radio collection that I curate within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org

Love to College Radio on College Radio Day 2025 - Radio Survivor Over the years there have been so many reports about the ebb and flow of college radio and I’ve tried my best to not feed into narratives of decline. With that in mind, I was pleased to read a piece t...

Happy College Radio Day! College radio inspires me every day of the year. I share some words on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social

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Also on the show, we hear a bit about the National Campus and Community Radio Conference, which was held in Nanaimo, BC, Canada in June 2025. Plus, Jennifer digs into the latest “best college radio stations” list from Princeton Review.

In her Grassroots Radio Conference keynote address, FCC Commissioner Gomez talked about the importance of community radio, as a place that inherently provides a diversity of view points.

Podcast #345 - Catching up with Community Radio at the Grassroots Radio Conference and NCRC - Radio Survivor Jennifer Waits reports back from the Grassroots Radio Conference, held in Spokane Washington from September 11 to September 14, 2025. We recap FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez’s keynote address, in which s...

New episode alert! At the Grassroots Radio Conference, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez critiqued recent actions by the FCC that threaten freedom of speech and freedom of the press. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/09/podc...

2026 "Best College Radio Stations" List from Princeton Review - Radio Survivor The annual Princeton Review “Best College Radio Stations” list is here, just in time for the 2025-2026 academic year. Appearing within The Best 391 Colleges – 2026 edition, the “best college radio sta...

Per tradition, I dig into the latest "Best College Radio Station" list from Princeton Review. Psyched to see a handful of brand new entrants to the list: Washington and Lee University, Rollins College, John Carroll University and University of Portland. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/08/2026...

Podcast #343 - Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age - Radio Survivor While the work of radio stations using terrestrial transmitters is a typical discussion topic on Radio Survivor, for this episode we find ourselves examining music and talk beamed down from satellites...

Satellite radio is the topic of our latest @radiosurvivor.bsky.social radio show/podcast episode! Thanks to @brianfauteux.bsky.social for schooling us about the history of satellite radio and its connections with the music industry. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/05/podc...

Radio Station Visit #178: CJSR-FM at University of Alberta - Radio Survivor The magic of college radio lies not just in the sounds that are transmitted over the airwaves, but also emanates from the spaces from which stations operate. Often these are in obscure locales, tucked...

@cjsrfm.bsky.social is my first station tour in Canada and it was an amazing visit! A campus and community radio station at University of Alberta, its studio is located in an old bank vault. Full story on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social: www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/04/radi...

Radio Station Visit #177: WBGU-FM at Bowling Green State University - Radio Survivor It was a surreal experience to return to one of my college radio alma maters, WBGU 88.1 FM at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), and encounter an unrecognizable radio station and campus. Granted i...

Another college radio tour is posted on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social. I was excited to return to Bowling Green, OH to check out my old haunts, including college radio station WBGU. I have fond memories of my time there in the 90s: going to shows, tallying playlists for CMJ & making lifelong friends.

Radio Station Visit #176: WONY at SUNY Oneonta - Radio Survivor One version of my radio nerd dream vacation includes a cross-country road trip, with numerous stops at college radio stations along the way. With family in tow, it’s a tough sell; however over the yea...

What did I do on my summer vacation circa 2023? On a fun road trip, I popped in to see a few college radio stations, including WONY-FM at SUNY Oneonta. Thanks to @abottomley.bsky.social for being my tour guide. Article now posted on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/04/radi...

Radio Station Visit #175: KUCR at UC Riverside - Radio Survivor On a Sunday morning, when most college students were likely asleep, KUCR Music Director Diya Anantharaman cheerfully greeted me at University of California, Riverside’s college radio station. Off-the-...

Our very own @spinningindie.bsky.social resumes her radio station tour series with a visit to @ucriverside.bsky.social's college radio station KUCR. Home to a wide range of shows and two Leo Blais signs! www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/04/radi...

Interestingly, Princeton didn't make the list until the 2023 edition! (Unless is appeared on lists before I started to monitor them in 2007)