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90.1 WUSB celebrates 30 years

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On 6/27/77, WUSB 90.1 FM signed on for the first time as an FM station at 5:30 pm, broadcasting from the top of the Graduate Chemistry Building on the campus of Stony Brook University, with an eclectic mix of free-form programming. Prior to that, it had been a carrier-current AM station receivable (sometimes) only on the campus of Stony Brook for a number of years.

Today, WUSB celebrates 30 years with a live interview and chat with the original (and longtime) General Manager of the station, Norman Prusslin, who only recently retired after 28+ years of service to the station, and at 5:30, the original broadcast will be re-aired. 30 years later, WUSB is still one of few non-commercial stations that have stuck with free-form programming, open to students and the community at large.

To hear the broadcast: http://stream.wusb.stonybrook.edu:8090/listen.pls
 
Congratulations to 30 years of Radio at Stony Brook. Kudos to them for not yet selling out. Stations like WUSB are a dying breed. There are too many college stations that have become "Professional" thus blocking off access to the airwaves for students and members of the community. We all know who the offenders are.

In any event, here's hoping for another 30 and many more than that years of real grass-roots radio at WUSB and the very few stations left like them.
 
Ted Russell said:
Congratulations to 30 years of Radio at Stony Brook. Kudos to them for not yet selling out. Stations like WUSB are a dying breed. There are too many college stations that have become "Professional" thus blocking off access to the airwaves for students and members of the community. We all know who the offenders are.

In any event, here's hoping for another 30 and many more than that years of real grass-roots radio at WUSB and the very few stations left like them.
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I agree. WUSB is unique... it would be nice to see some money invested to upgrade the facility. The WPAC-FM console doesn't cut it anymore ;D...
 
WUSB is great for the community in many ways. I took my cub scouts there for a tour to help them earn their "Communicator Pin" a few years ago. They did a wonderful job with the kids.

Congrats and thank you WUSB.
 
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