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I have a hunch that quite a few posters on this board are current/former disc jockeys on the left hand side of the dial. Give your station ID too.

― cprek (cprek), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

WRFL, Lexington... been doing it for about 5 years now.

― cprek (cprek), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

KLA at UCLA, then KUCI in Irvine -- total career came out to eleven years with only a couple of summers off. :-)

I allegedly have the perfect radio announcer voice -- or at least everyone's told me since I was 15.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't remember the Call letters but it was Power 88 at Dean College in 1993-94. Johnny Bravo, coming at ya.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bexhill College Radio.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

wujc 88.7.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

When I started...WKPS 90.7 FM, Penn State Student Radio
When I sorta-retired...The Lion 90.7 Fm

I'm not fond of the changes implied in that name shift. I used to run the Indie show, but though I'm still in town I now just review on occasion and sub for somebody even more rarely. People staying as figures of authority for years and years is what's messing up the station, so I couldn't in good conscience do the same.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

KRRC Reed College, Portland. I had yankophile groupies.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean ANGLOPHILE.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

an illegal, non-FCC-licensed set on WHRB, Cambridge, MA pirate f*cking radio.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

WCWM 90.7 at College of William & Mary. DJ for four years, music director for 2. Oddly enough, a really crazy weird radio station at a very conservative school.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear in the UK there is a big thing about doing hospital radio. If you have done this, please identify yourself and ID the hospital too.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

WESU, Middletown, Connecticut

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

(1997-99)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

What's hospital radio?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

94.7 CHRW London, Ontario (1997-2001)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I tried three times to get on the uni radio here. Failed three times. Student radio is as conservative as students over here and is just like comercial radio and that just sucks.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I was told hospital radio is where aspiring DJs broadcast music to invalids. Or was that just some wacky British "humour"?

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Both of the above.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

WHPK, 88.5 FM Chicago. 1990-2000 (yikes) doing regular shows. 2 years as MD. Still do a fill-in every couple months or so.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

* WRSU (Rutgers): weekly show 1985-1992, sporadic fill-ins until 1999
* WPRB (Princeton): fill-ins from 1986-1988 and 1992-1994

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a show every semester at WMNJ (sometimes solo, sometimes with Axis Sally) and spent three years on the Executive Board. (Yay, another key.)

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeez. Looking back at my WRSU timeline now, I turned into one of those older guys that no one at the station actually knows.

I tried out for WFMU, but moved out of the area before I could actually get a show there.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently my musical selections just wouldn't be popular enough (a mixture of electronica, reggae and jazz), arseholes

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I got thrown off the air by the program director and station manager. My monday morning show was apparently too "risque" and I also called the director a fat bitch with a toupee on my thursday night indie show which i did while fueled up on vodka. and he heard every second of it. needless to say, i failed the course he taught too.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

shared a house music mix show on KALX in Berkeley in '94.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

wnur 89.3 fm evanston 1993-97

wprb 103.3 fm princeton 2000-present (intermittently)

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

CFBX - 92.5 FM / cable 106.1 / www.thex.ca, Kamloops BC (2001-current)

― Poppy (poppy), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

WMBR 88.1 fm cambridge, mass represent!! 'the leftmost station on yr fm dial'

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Also representin' Cambridge, Mass -- WHRB, 95.3 FM (1993-96). But I used to listen to Breakfast of Champions and Late Risers' Club on 'MBR all the time, starting in high school. Best music to throw pots to in ceramics class!

― Jen (nstop), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

did two shows. the last one was for a commercial station which forced me to play pap. i did. sebadoh (inbetween the mainstream poop)

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I miss doing college radio. Big time.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Programming director at WKCO in Gambier, OH, in, um, 1995-6. When I was there the engineer had to rig the tower and it was only broadcasting at 10 watts (yes 10, it reached both ends of campus). Oh, and after I left the stoner director forgot to send in the FCC forms so they had to pull the plug. Classic.

I seem to recall playing a lot of Sebadoh, Guided by Voices and Husker Du.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i never did radio. you guys are cool, and the rest of us are not? life isn't fair.

― megan p, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I just made tape recordings in my bedroom.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

CHMA, 106.9 FM broadcasting to Sackville, New Brunswick and surrounding marshes from 97 - 2002.
I still miss having access to the rooms filed with cds and records.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I djed on college radio for 6 years. I was in college for 4 of those years and then the station let me continue on djing for 2 more years after that (and then I moved to another city).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember you from both WRSU and WPRB, mr appelstein! in fact, it was on one of your shows that i first heard Daniel Johnston!

also, wasn't there some really goofy/arrogant German guy who used to precede yer show on WPRB (Axel, or something like that)?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Currently WMBR 88.1FM in Cambridge MA ... Breakfast of Champions Thursday. Been at that station since 1996, various time slots.

Started out at WTSR in Trenton, NJ ... 1990 to 1992 and back again in 1994.

Also did WRUR in Rochester NY from 1992 to 1994.

College radio, I'm a junkie for your love.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, Tad! Yeah, I used to play entire sides of Daniel Johnston tapes on my evening show. Most of my usual callers (mostly members of crappy local bands calling for their own songs) hated it.

I've actually been thinking about the '80s New Brunswick scene a lot lately, and wishing I didn't sell so many of those records. Next time I'm home, I'm going on a used-bin hunting spree for the Lord John LP.

I never had one specific WPRB time slot for more than a couple weeks. I vaguely remember an "Axel," though.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)

spiral jetty @ the court tavern!

(trenton makes the world takes -- that one's for zaxxon. and what the hell was the name of that punk/industrial club that used to be in Trenton? the name's escaping me now, i saw the replacements and psychic TV there)

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

City Gardens!

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shitty Gardens!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, NJ is almost as rich a college radio territory as Boston. Living in the center of the state, I was able to pick up WRSU, WPRB, WFMU and (occasionally) WTSR. And let's not forget WSOU, the metal station located on the Catholic college campus of Seton Hall.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My college had a bullshit station (illegal, too. call numbers "ROCU" which is pathetic). The school didn't help. Our transmitter didn't even broadcast outside of the small building, when it was working. We now broadcast online and nobody listens. At one point, the only way to listen to the station was to be in outside of the station listening to the speakers that had been set up. The station was right next to the TV Lounge area, and I was often told to shut them off during my shows, as I was distracting the TV watchers. Needless to say, I only went through this hell for one year. The experience was especially dissapointing because...

In high school, I was a DJ for 4 years (WBSL, Sheffield Massachusetts). I was assistant manager for my junior year and manager for my senior year. Our station had a 10-mile broadcast range. I played a mix of jazz, electronic music and indie and everything else. The best mini-suite I ever played involved Tchaikovsky, Jobim, and *2* playings of "cool it now" by New Edition in the span of about half an hour. The station was completely free-form. For 3 years, my slot was 12pm-2am satruday night and sunday morning. Considering that we all had to be in our dorms at 12pm on saturday night, I was hot shit for being able to stay out. This late timeslot also gave me a lot of freedom to deviate from the schedules of PSAs and station identifications. I always played the same PSA, a Red Cross one with Miles Davis. I can still remember it now: "Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. In the time it takes to listen to this classic, you or someone you know could be hit with disaster..." I also played some of the other PSAs, mixing between them, live, on the board to see what would happen. I was once able to manipulate the PSAs in a way to give the listeners the impression that the Navy supported the use of marijuana. Yay!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

or City Dump, as some of us called it. God, what a hellhole.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Supposedly you could catch WESU in Springfield on clear days.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Me: WHRW (90.5 FM, Binghamton NY, serving the Southern Tier's Triple Cities and neighboring suburbs). Had my own show, the Beggar's Opera, for two years, and apprenticed on-air with another DJ before that. Spent a good deal of my free time (and an inappropriate amount of class time) at the station -- listening, taping, hanging out, doing station service. One of the best experiences of my life.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

And let's not forget WSOU, the metal station located on the Catholic college campus of Seton Hall.

This was pretty much ALL I listened to in seventh and eighth grade.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

The college newspaper was on the same floor as the radio station. For most of my 4 1/2 years at college, my life revolved around that floor: you could find me there whenever I wasn't in class, studying or working. It served the same purpose that I suppose frats/sororities do for other people: gave me a 24/7 place to hang out with friends, listen to music, and keep up with things.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

the daily targum! (i was a biweekly opinion columnist there from 1991-92).

it was all about Monday Night Mayhem (3-4 hours of nothing but death metal and black metal)

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

the daily targum! (i was a biweekly opinion columnist there from 1991-92).

WSOU was all about Monday Night Mayhem (3-4 hours of nothing but death metal and black metal)

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

hiccup!

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(Bless you!)

Jody, was your show named for John Gay?!

My grades started sinking once I started at the station. I'm still entirely grateful to it for rescuing my college years from tedium. Sadly it seems to have fallen apart further since I left, having been kicked off campus and into a small loft above a bookstore. (The website hasn't been updated in an eternity, never a good sign.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Tad, you probably remember Brandon, right? That's a couple of years after I graduated.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

(I had all kinds of utopian imaginings for WESU, some of which I tried to put into effect as Program Director; the trouble with college radio is unless you have a strong faculty advisor or an aggressive fundraising tradition, you can never be sure that it will last past your tenure there.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that's the problem with effecting any kind of change at a college station: once you graduate or someone else gets elected program director, it's like it never happened. I like that WHRB tries to maintain some standard of quality through its "rock quiz" for new DJs, etc.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

KUOM Minneapolis St Paul, 770 Radio K. In glorious stereo AM. I was on from 1998-2000, approximately. Still show up every once in a while to help with pledge drives. Check out the site: radiok.org.

― BRianR (BRianR), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody, was your show named for John Gay?!

Yes! I think only two other people have ever gotten the reference.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

mike -- that name sounds vaguely familiar. i didn't really hang out on the fourth floor that much, to be honest -- just came in when i had a column due, typed it in (this was in a pre-Windows days) and left.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

JBR, my HS best friend is a descendant of John Gay. Family changed its name to Wild to avoid some other scandal.

No college radio for me but our HS station, KDXL, was ace. We'd play Cure records all day and metal boys would call up, threatening 'If you don't play some Halen now, we're coming down to kick your asses.' We didn'tbelieve them; 10 minutes later thumping on the doors and walls.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

CHUO ottawa - short lived 4am program titled total trash that played the pet shop boys on top of the goblins and louie louie before it was cool.

― pb, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

kwhirrrr in the hizzouse. I started off playing spooky industrial music, then partly because of alt.music.alternative, it started getting all shoegazey, idm-y, noisey, and schminide.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

(schmindie, that is)

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"spiral jetty @ the court tavern!"

Spiral Jetty's guitarist, Adam Potkay, was my 17th Century British Lit. prof in college. [i]Art's Sand Bar[/i] was a great record!

I DJed at WUVT (Va Tech radio) my junior and senior years of high school and then WCWM for three years while I was in college (music director with Nick A. one of those years).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

WUTK at the University of Tennessee for 3 years. I was program director for a year. I hated it. They made me fire all the popular DJs because they were getting out of hand. I learned how to be a highly effective asshole. We used to throw all the unused promos in corrugated plastic mail bins and when they got full we'd take 'em down to the Disc Exchange and sell them, sometimes with the wrappers still on. I wish I'd been into more kinds of music at the time instead of just techno and IDM, there was a lot of good shit to be had.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been Djing for years
1986-1994 WIUP Indiana,PA
1990-94 WRCT Pittsburgh,PA fillins and summertime
1996-now WMUA Amherst,MA
And my one guest slot on WFMU this past Nov. A 3-6am slot taunted by the large record library I could not enter *sigh*

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

WHRB--me too, 1987-1991, for most of which I was the station's music director. Also did a show for the summer & fall of 1991 on Michigan State's station, whose name is slipping my memory.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 6 February 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Longtime listener, KCSB, Santa Barbara, California.

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I've DJ-ed at the afore-mentioned WCWM 90.7 in VA for 3 yrs now (www.wcwm.org). And this year I hold the godly position of Station Manager. It's really quite fun - I enjoy it. Also, I know Nick A. and Sarah McL, even though they don't know it. ;)
(well, they might now).

― stolenbus (stolenbus), Thursday, 6 February 2003 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

WMBR 88.1 Cambridge, MA - Breakfast of Champions (Hi Keith!) from 1998-2000. My grades only started suffering when I became the General Manager tho!

― marianna, Thursday, 6 February 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, hi Em...I mean, stolenbus! Weird, I had no idea that was you.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 February 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Me either. That's some crazy shit. :) Hi.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 February 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

91.5, Oberlin, OH

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Thursday, 6 February 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

91.3 WVUD the voice of the University of Delaware: I'm not currently a DJ, but I may be next year. Three of my clse friends are. One is the music director. Check out CMJ to see his picks.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 6 February 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Tad, you mean "Trenton Makes The World akes" ... which is what it read the four years I lived there. Believe it's fixed now.

One of the TSR dj's booked City Gardens ... good guy who tried hard to get good acts in there. Considering the venue he did ok ...

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 7 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

had a show featuring mostly Japanese rock/pop music on WRDP, Radio DePaul in Chicago, IL a few years ago. of course, wouldn't you know that after i left is when they finally got the turntables fixed AND finally got decent broadcasting equipment? :P

― janni (janni), Friday, 7 February 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, I've in Chicago nearly my whole life and didn't know DePaul had a radio station. what is the frequency?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 7 February 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

it doesn't broadcast much outside of DePaul's boundaries, unfortunately---it's not an official radio station as it's not even got a proper FCC licence. they have it set up so you can listen online, though: try looking here for more info.

― janni (janni), Friday, 7 February 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

WBAR, Barnard College, took us kids from the school across the street. After a semester of 25-minute Phish/Dead/Trane/Zappa explorations, with incomprehensible 'humorous' interludes, my suitemate and I were let go by programmers who were very concerned about our failure to play Sebadoh for the non-listening public.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 February 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to play Fripp and Eno and mix in instrumental Pink Floyd passages. And nobody cared!

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 8 February 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

*
wujc 88.7.
-- lawrence kansas
*
"Vanna White Has Acromegaly" still cracks me up.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 8 February 2003 09:56 (twenty-three years ago)

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