The return of Vanderbilt radio & the WRVU brand

[LouPickney]

At noon yesterday (9/1/2011), 90.3 WPLN-FM-HD3 became the new home for Vanderbilt Radio and what is branded as WRVU. Vanderbilt Radio has been alive via the internet in the interim period between when 91.1 FM began airing Classical music in May and yesterday, and now the WRVU brand name has returned to the Nashville airwaves, albeit via an HD radio sideband channel.

The call letters may be more cumbersome as WPLN-FM-HD3, but the station has sounded good on my desktop Accurian HD radio from my home office in the Antioch area. I'm not sure when 24/7 automation will end and live/local student and Vanderbilt-affiliated shows will return, though I've been told that is planned and that WRVU will continue on with both an internet presence and on terrestrial radio via WPLN's HD3 channel.

 

[K4WRF]

@ blinding 24 kbit/s can't be too stellar up close.

 

[w9wi]

At noon yesterday (9/1/2011), 90.3 WPLN-FM-HD3 became the new home for Vanderbilt Radio and what is branded as WRVU. Vanderbilt Radio has been alive via the internet in the interim period between when 91.1 FM began airing Classical music in May and yesterday, and now the WRVU brand name has returned to the Nashville airwaves, albeit via an HD radio sideband channel.

The call letters may be more cumbersome as WPLN-FM-HD3, but the station has sounded good on my desktop Accurian HD radio from my home office in the Antioch area. I'm not sure when 24/7 automation will end and live/local student and Vanderbilt-affiliated shows will return, though I've been told that is planned and that WRVU will continue on with both an internet presence and on terrestrial radio via WPLN's HD3 channel.

There were two live DJs on last (Friday) night. At least one of them didn't seem to realize he was on radio, he only announced wrvu.org. Never heard a WPLN ID.

It sounds fairly decent. I wonder if they shuffled some bandwidth from HD2 to HD3? All Things Considered on HD2 (presumably parallel to AM 1430) is sounding a bit bit-starved.

 

[uncamark]

At noon yesterday (9/1/2011), 90.3 WPLN-FM-HD3 became the new home for Vanderbilt Radio and what is branded as WRVU. Vanderbilt Radio has been alive via the internet in the interim period between when 91.1 FM began airing Classical music in May and yesterday, and now the WRVU brand name has returned to the Nashville airwaves, albeit via an HD radio sideband channel.

The call letters may be more cumbersome as WPLN-FM-HD3, but the station has sounded good on my desktop Accurian HD radio from my home office in the Antioch area. I'm not sure when 24/7 automation will end and live/local student and Vanderbilt-affiliated shows will return, though I've been told that is planned and that WRVU will continue on with both an internet presence and on terrestrial radio via WPLN's HD3 channel.

There were two live DJs on last (Friday) night. At least one of them didn't seem to realize he was on radio, he only announced wrvu.org. Never heard a WPLN ID.

It sounds fairly decent. I wonder if they shuffled some bandwidth from HD2 to HD3? All Things Considered on HD2 (presumably parallel to AM 1430) is sounding a bit bit-starved.

I'm curious who they got--if you believe the Save WRVU blog, the core student DJ staff doesn't want anything to do with VSC--their latest post:

http://savewrvuradio.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/wiki-wars/

For the record, the Wikipedia page hasn't been "corrected" by any Save WRVU people yet (and there's no indication of an editing war on the history page). Also, in their black helicopter conspiracy rant on Public Radio Capital, they repeat the windowpane gang at Keeping Public Radio Public's error of calling WDUQ in Pittsburgh a "college" station--it was (and is under its new owners) a professional NPR station with a paid air staff and (under the old owners) a jazz format, not "free form."

 

[JustinT]

I'm curious who they got--if you believe the Save WRVU blog, the core student DJ staff doesn't want anything to do with VSC--their latest post:

http://savewrvuradio.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/wiki-wars/

Beyond normal attrition (graduation), there was no mass exodus that I am aware of - you can see the station's schedule at WRVU.org. As for who "they got" - all show DJs must have trained at the station for a semester before having a show of their own. So nobody walked in and became a DJ in the past few weeks.