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List of area college stations?
- Thread starter Wimmmex
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Off top of my head
WMBR 88.1 MIT
WERS 88.9 Emerson--has a Broadway HD2
90.3 WZBC BC
91.3 WUNH UNH
91.5 WUML UMass Lowell
91.5 WMFO Tufts
91.5 WMLN Curry (still on?)
91.7 WMWM Salem State (me)
90.9 WBUR at BU and 91.9 (and other freqs) WUMB UMass Boston are more like public radio
Outside the 88-92:
95.3 WHRB Harvard
100.1 WBRS Brandeis
104.9 WRBB Northeastern
WMBR 88.1 MIT
WERS 88.9 Emerson--has a Broadway HD2
90.3 WZBC BC
91.3 WUNH UNH
91.5 WUML UMass Lowell
91.5 WMFO Tufts
91.5 WMLN Curry (still on?)
91.7 WMWM Salem State (me)
90.9 WBUR at BU and 91.9 (and other freqs) WUMB UMass Boston are more like public radio
Outside the 88-92:
95.3 WHRB Harvard
100.1 WBRS Brandeis
104.9 WRBB Northeastern
88.3 Concord Carlisle High School http://www.wiqh.org/
91.7 Maynard High https://wavm.org/
Many more High Schools out there!
91.7 Maynard High https://wavm.org/
Many more High Schools out there!
Yes WAVM, poss time share with WUMB?WBMT 88.3 at Masconomet here on North Shore
WZLY 91.5 Wellesley College is maybe 7 watts, still on I think? They expressed desire to sell station and go strictly online--no need to keep FCC logs, able to play songs with swears etc but as far as I know no buyer yet
And some institutions have online stations like Simmons College. We had some IBS conferences at that school and saw their studio but again just online.
WRPS signal reached North Shore a few times.
One time someone had a pirate on the South Shore, WHDL (We Hate Dumb Listeners or We had Hot Dogs for Lunch)--forget the freq but at one point they boosted their power and the signal
reached North Shore, etc. They gave out a request line number which was an exchange down there. FCC shut them down, as I read later in the Globe.
WZLY 91.5 Wellesley College is maybe 7 watts, still on I think? They expressed desire to sell station and go strictly online--no need to keep FCC logs, able to play songs with swears etc but as far as I know no buyer yet
And some institutions have online stations like Simmons College. We had some IBS conferences at that school and saw their studio but again just online.
WRPS signal reached North Shore a few times.
One time someone had a pirate on the South Shore, WHDL (We Hate Dumb Listeners or We had Hot Dogs for Lunch)--forget the freq but at one point they boosted their power and the signal
reached North Shore, etc. They gave out a request line number which was an exchange down there. FCC shut them down, as I read later in the Globe.
I am also reminded of how many station have "turned in their licenses" due to lack of interest.
Merrimack College was on 90.5...no longer licensed (WMMC)
Philips Academny was on 91.7....no longer licensed (WPAA)
Topsfield HS was on 88.3 (WBMT)
Lack of interest and student apathy has forced a lot of licenses to be canceled.
Merrimack College was on 90.5...no longer licensed (WMMC)
Philips Academny was on 91.7....no longer licensed (WPAA)
Topsfield HS was on 88.3 (WBMT)
Lack of interest and student apathy has forced a lot of licenses to be canceled.
Didn't Wheaton College in Norton have a station at one time? (Also wondering how this thread drifted so quickly into prep school and high school stations when "college" was in the subject line.)
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There were also changes in the laws governing these kinds of stations. The FCC raised the bar on a lot of these high school stations, where they had to increase power, stay on the air longer, and do other things that went beyond what the school boards were willing to do.
WHSR 91.9 Winchester High edged out by WUMB.
Late 70s WMWM was 10 w and went for increase to 130.Don't know if we would have lost license if we didn't get it.Station had to get more students involved and college to co-operate.
(WSSC carrier current 640 started in 68; WMWM 10 w at 91.7 in 76, power increase in 78 or so).
WBRS was at 91.7, went to 100.1
WRBB may have also been at 91.7 (before that a carrier current, with Donna Halper in late 60s) and moved to 104.9--avoid interference with what is now WBOQ Gloucester
Late 70s WMWM was 10 w and went for increase to 130.Don't know if we would have lost license if we didn't get it.Station had to get more students involved and college to co-operate.
(WSSC carrier current 640 started in 68; WMWM 10 w at 91.7 in 76, power increase in 78 or so).
WBRS was at 91.7, went to 100.1
WRBB may have also been at 91.7 (before that a carrier current, with Donna Halper in late 60s) and moved to 104.9--avoid interference with what is now WBOQ Gloucester
WPAA: after they went off I think WUML 91.5 in Lowell was able to boost power.
WBMT Boxford supposedly to share freq with WVCA-LP Newbury.After hearing they were to go on in Jan., still not on.
WBMT Boxford supposedly to share freq with WVCA-LP Newbury.After hearing they were to go on in Jan., still not on.
WMLN is still on. You have to be in the southern Boston neighborhoods or south suburbs to hear it.
Yes, Maynard got quite a boost for their high school station WAVM from 10 to 500 watts (directional) by WUMB upgrading it to use it as a time-shared repeater for Metro-West.
The upgrade also prevented some proposed national religious network stations from encroaching on the same or adjacent frequencies in the Metro-West which would have caused interference to the WUMB Boston or Worcester signals where they had listeners, although outside their protected contour.
Still on when I drove through the area a few weeks ago.
WRBB was originally on 91.7. Would have been adjacent interference to WUMB in part of Boston if it hadn't moved.
I think it may have been just a directional pattern change because they no longer had to protect the former adjacent WPAA.
One of the things that happened was all the 10 watt stations and their cousins had to get to 100 watts in order to keep any FCC protections.
Some of them did not do that and eventually got forced off the air.
MANY stations found the regulatory aspects onerous , WZLY being one, and some of the college/HS stations (WBMT?) got their pee pee spanked by the FCC for not being EAS compliant. Other stations could not find enough people interested to stay on enough hours to keep their licenses from being challenged.
WPAA was a royal PITA to WLTI/WJUL/WUML as we were first adjacent and WPAA was the protected station as they were there first.
The co-channel WMFO also made it so 91.5 Lowell had to have a directional antenna.
I was REALLY hoping that when WPAA went dark, U Lowell would seize the opportunity to improve the signal, as they were heavily nulled to the southeast, but U Mass Boston,never missing the opportunity to grab a frequency, managed to get the license... that did give WUML the opportunity to move off the Alumni/Lydon Library and over to the top of Fox Hall, but IMHO they should have acted faster to get the null reduced. But then again U MAss's powers that be might have squashed WUML like a bug to give their precious WUMB more wasted space.
I heard WBMT on the air last week.. wasn't sure what I was hearing, had to go on the internet, put on their stream, it matched what was on my car radio. They were playing great music !
I hate to say it, but Boston radio (specifically from my area) just doesn't appeal to me anymore. I can't think of a personality who I find interesting enough to whom I want to be loyal. I don't like the idea of continuous sports talk. The music stations play music that I can find everywhere else...on demand. HD Radio at least used to have some interesting formats. My personals were back when WBOS had Local 92.9, WROR had the 70s, WWBX had the 80s, and more specifically WZLX had Radio Mojo. I even like WAAF's live music format. But these companies messed up HD the same way they messed FM band (just my non-professional opinion: take it for what it's worth, mostly nothing).
I've gone the road of bluetooth FM transmitter and 87.9 to broadcast podcasts and music from my phone. I don't really mess with anyone, has a FCC regulated range and as far as I know there's not a licensed broadcast on 88.1 in my area, and we have no LPs in the area using channel 6 (87.7).
With that said, I personally use my arra college stations from time to time to find underground music. Thats the big issue.
We used to go to the radio to find new music. Now it's the same repeated artist (not even musicians anymore) over and over. I'm still waiting for a true Hip-Hop station that isn't a pirate. The closest thing to non-cookie cutter radio is the college stations. Without them, it's my little transmitter and XM music in my house through my satellite TV service.
I've gone the road of bluetooth FM transmitter and 87.9 to broadcast podcasts and music from my phone. I don't really mess with anyone, has a FCC regulated range and as far as I know there's not a licensed broadcast on 88.1 in my area, and we have no LPs in the area using channel 6 (87.7).
With that said, I personally use my arra college stations from time to time to find underground music. Thats the big issue.
We used to go to the radio to find new music. Now it's the same repeated artist (not even musicians anymore) over and over. I'm still waiting for a true Hip-Hop station that isn't a pirate. The closest thing to non-cookie cutter radio is the college stations. Without them, it's my little transmitter and XM music in my house through my satellite TV service.
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