Happy College Radio Day! In honor of the annual celebration of student radio (this year on October 2), we invite you to explore the college radio collections in the Internet Archive’s Digital Library ...

Karnataka State Archives – Bangalore – Files – Madras Revenue Department – HRS-Historical Record Section – N/A – N/A (ID 540984)

Princeton Review’s latest “Best College Radio Stations” list has been released, bringing attention to another interesting mix of college radio stations from across the United States. Appearing within ...

Part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), DLARC College Radio is a curated collection of items related to college radio in all its forms. Student radio experimentat...

Plus: Beat-scene showcase Electronic Buffet returns, Make Music Chicago presents a day of dozens of events, and more.

In 2016 I was intrigued by the story of a 1985 “college radio network” visit to the White House, in which students had the opportunity to interview President Ronald Reagan. At the time, there was scan...

On the ground floor of the Donohue Building on the Holyoke Community College campus sits college radio station WCCH 103.5 FM in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Blessed with several distinct spaces, the statio...

Program guide from WBGU-FM, the college radio station at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Campus radio began at Bowling Green State...

The effort preserves decades of student broadcasting as campuses pivot to podcasts and social media formats

List of Radio Survivor's radio station tours: college radio station tours, community radio station tours, high school radio station tours, and more.

WHJE 91 FM radio playlist and top 31 records for the week ending April 6, 1973. WHJE 91.3 FM is a student-run high school radio station at Carmel High School...

On a chilly early March night, WMHC General Manager Valentina Rubio Lopez greeted me outside the Mount Holyoke College campus in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Bursting with love for radio, Rubio Lopez ...

Administrators at Redwood High School in Marin County have been accused of violating a state law that protects the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists at the Redwood Bark, the...

In a 1947 letter to WPRU at Princeton University, Smith College student Betty Specht asks for advice about the feasibility of setting up a college radio station, writing that there is a feeling that t...

Torching the Wayback Machine is akin to burning the Library of Alexandria. We cannot let our digital memory be wiped.

“This semester is our last semester in our current radio station, so we would love the opportunity to show off our wacky and wonderful space,” emailed WAMH-FM station manager Finley Liu in response to...

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

SF organization losing access to some news content

During lunchtime on a Thursday in early March, University of Massachusetts Amherst’s college radio station WMUA was buzzing with activity. Tables in the lobby were full of students working on laptops,...

“We desperately need this station! With every other campus on the air, it is a crying shame…After all, with a name like WNEC, what would seem more natural!” (The Westerner, 11/5/1969) In 1969, a colum...

Every college campus is an adventure, requiring advance planning on my part so that I am able to navigate as quickly as possible to radio stations that are often in hidden-away locations. Before my vi...

The Internet Archive's DLARC is haven for radio amateurs, shortwave enthusiasts, long-distance radio reception clubs and a whole lot more.

Treasure hunt is the best way to describe the whirlwind afternoon that I spent at campus and community radio station CJSF 90.1 FM at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada ...

A visit to campus and community radio station CIVL-FM at Uni

Underground is more than a metaphor for countless college radio stations which may play edgier music but are also housed beneath the earth. I’ve seen many basement digs in my travels, but none quite l...

It’s no surprise that the home of one of the oldest still-operating college radio stations, WESU 88.1 FM at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, is full of typical student radio artifacts. ...

“Get Loud in the Library” reads the headline on a flyer posted on a table in front of KYRS-FM, a community radio station located inside Spokane Central Library in Spokane, Washington. Promoting a seri...

Around lunchtime on a warm day in September, WYBC General Manager Jules Morris and I comb through stacks of paperwork from the Yale University radio station’s files. Car horns, traffic noises, and the...

Decades after spinning records at WHRC, Jennifer Waits '89 returned to campus to preserve the history of Haverford's student-run station.

On October 3, 2025, while World College Radio Day was being celebrated all over the globe, Cleveland State University’s nearly 50-year old student-run college radio station WCSB 89.3 FM was shut down ...

This year, College Radio Day began for me in the best possible way, with a visit to Middlebury College’s student-run radio station WRMC 91.1 FM in Middlebury, Vermont. From the second that I walked in...

The Internet Archive has been saving web history for nearly 30 years. CNN’s Hadas Gold goes inside its headquarters to see how the archive is innovating for the AI age and protecting itself from both ...