Beloit college files to cancel 90.3 WBCR

[Mark Roberts]

And I can tell you that the radio station at my old alma matta, KXLU-FM in Los Angeles, is also very much alive.

KVCU at the University of Colorado in Boulder, an AM station, added an FM translator in Denver just a few months ago. It seems very much alive as well.

 

[ted chittenden]

If it’s exceptionally close, it certainly played a factor

Going by memory, Loyola Marymount University is about a two-minute drive from the nearest beach which is down from the top of the hill (actually top and side) on which the college sits.

 

[JJSPC]

The license was officially canceled by the commission last week, but WBCR is still on the air this morning. Oops. Somebody should probably go turn off the transmitter.

 

[CTListener]

The license was officially canceled by the commission last week, but WBCR is still on the air this morning. Oops. Somebody should probably go turn off the transmitter.

Broadcasting programming or just dead air?

 

[JJSPC]

Broadcasting programming or just dead air?

Music format like always.

 

[IKHNetworks]

Are you sure it wasn’t somebody near the college who was running a pirate radio station with the content from the former station. I ask because I came across a pirate fm translator that was rebroadcasting WTMJ on 92.5 FM In Beloit.

By the way if one was to run a pirate station it would be quite clever to take the frequency of a recently cancelled station.

I do not encourage pirate radio.

 

[Rusty Muck]

This station's been in operation since 1907:

Radio Station | WBCR 90.3 FM Beloit College Radio | United States

Catering to alternative tastes. Official website for the student, staff, and community radio station of Beloit College. WBCR-FM 90.3

www.wbcr903.com

They may have been referring to radio activity, likely through experimental AM. Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, had an active radio club as early as 1896; eventually it yielded an early AM station that became WCSO, one of the predecessors to WGAR radio in Cleveland. Today they have WUSO (albeit now operated by a third party) which claims some of that lineage.

Methinks that this college had an unlicensed carrier current station that operated for decades until the FM was licensed and activated, and the histories of both were ultimately combined and confused.

 

[JJSPC]

WBCR 's stream matches the FM signal, so they're still broadcasting over the air after having the license canceled.

 

[CTListener]

WBCR 's stream matches the FM signal, so they're still broadcasting over the air after having the license canceled.

Time to send in the military, then. Maybe after the government shutdown ...