Musings about college radio, pop culture, and audio culture by Jennifer Waits can now be found at: @spinningindie.bsky.social
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🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️
Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.
It’s all in our blog ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/…
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#WorldRadioDay @InternetArchive
ALT Cover of an issue of The Call Letter, a newsletter from KTSB 91.7 cable FM, the predecessor to KVRX-FM at the University of Texas, Austin. Source: DLARC College Radio (digitized from KVRX’s on-site collection) featuring cartoon aliens in spacecraft and text: "we're here.”
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This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications at the Internet Archive. 📻 Explore ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/…
ALT Black-and-white flyer for WHUS 91.7 FM radio in Storrs, Connecticut. At the top, bold handwritten text reads: “SHUT UP AND LISTEN!” Below, a stylized illustration shows a strong figure with a raised fist, standing in front of a broadcast tower emitting signals. The WHUS logo is centered prominently, with “91.7 FM WHUS” written across the figure’s chest and arm. At the bottom, text reads “STORRS, CONNECTICUT.”
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🎙 College & community radio have shaped generations. Now hear how their history is preserved! Jennifer Waits, Curator of the @InternetArchive's DLARC College Radio Collection, speaks on SAVING COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY at GRC 2025.
🕚 Sept 12, 11:15 AM
📍 906 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA
📅 Details & registration ➡️ grc2025.com
#GrassrootsRadio #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio #RadioArchives @SpinningIndie
ALT Logo of the Spokane 2025 Grassroots Radio Conference, September 11–14, 2025.
I'm on the hunt for college radio goodies! Take a look at these highlights of what we've collected for the college radio collection within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications on @internetarchive .
blog.archive.org/2024/12/19/…
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In a twist on our annual tradition,
@SpinningIndie shares tips on how to find "Alice's Restaurant" on your radio dial this Thanksgiving. radiosurvivor.com/2024/11/al…
Downloaded my Twitter data (really trying to leave!) and it's surreal to see this tweet from March 2009 about my very first @RadioSurvivor piece, which theorizes on Twitter being the new college radio.
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Take a magical trip inside Bowdoin College radio station @wbor on our latest tour! radiosurvivor.com/2024/11/ra…
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Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/…
Art school radio is the best! Thanks to college radio station WSVA for the tour and thanks to @SVA_News for the opportunity to dig even deeper into the station's history for my piece in Visual Arts Journal. sva.edu/features/the-art-of-…
This is such a crazy story about finding "lost" tapes. The 1980s radio show, "The Famous Computer Cafe," had an impressive run and an amazing roster of guests; but all the recordings were assumed to be gone forever. radiosurvivor.com/2024/08/po…
I'm working on a digital college radio collection on the @internetarchive and we've just surpassed 1300 items, including 'zines, flyers, program guides, trade magazines, playlists & more. Let me know if you have college radio materials to donate or loan! blog.archive.org/2024/07/25/…
TONIGHT at 6pm-7pm Pacific, I'll be on @KFJC897fm 's ThoughtLine with Robert Emmett. We will be chatting about college radio culture and the @35000watts screening coming up at @FoothillCollege on Saturday 7/27. kfjc.org/event/6819
The first SF Bay Area screening of the new college radio documentary @35000watts is coming up on Saturday, July 27 at @FoothillCollege , hosted by @KFJC897fm . I'll be on hand for the Q&A! 35000watts.com/sf-bay-area-s…
I want to know more about Ina Coolbrith’s poems being read on the radio. The caption on this photo in today’s @sfchronicle piece by @peterhartlaub indicates that it was on KPQ, but I wonder if it was KPO. I think it was her 83rd bday circa 1924 - @calradiohistory - any insights?
Love this Uplister-style playlist full of a great mix of artists of Asian and Pacific Island descent for AAPIHM by @Nattotodd
APIHM mixtape: R&B singer Thuy lets her ‘hair down’
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On @RadioSurvivor this week, we rhapsodize about cassette tapes. Thanks to @Marcissist for joining us to discuss his book, "High Bias: the Distorted History of the Cassette Tape." radiosurvivor.com/2024/05/po…
I wish every college radio station had a student writing their thesis on the station's history. Williams College senior Josh Picoult joins on @RadioSurvivor to discuss his project about @WCFM919. radiosurvivor.com/2024/04/po…
