Keeping the college radio positivity going...Here's a great read from Sounding Out! In honor of College Radio Day, they shared "a special post devoted to the intergenerational relationships that power college radio and keep it lit." soundstudiesblog.com/2025/10/03/a...

Especially in light of the shutdown of @wcsb.bsky.social yesterday, it's important to know that college radio IS thriving and plays a vital role in many students' lives. Thanks to @emwhitenoise.bsky.social for this great piece that takes a closer look at why Gen Z is excited about college radio.

Sad situation at Cleveland State clevelandstater.com/news/news/cs...

For #CollegeRadioDay, here's an update about the 9000+ item college radio collection that I curate within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org

Happy College Radio Day! College radio inspires me every day of the year. I share some words on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/love...

Latest episode of Radio Survivor show/podcast @radiosurvivor.bsky.social couldn't be more timely, as we discuss the FCC and recent challenges to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez was the keynote speaker at the Grassroots Radio Conference and we share our report!

🎙 College & community radio have shaped generations. 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 📍 Spokane, WA 📅 Details ➡️ grc2025.com @spinningindie.bsky.social

In the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, IN THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR, author & UI designer @ErinMalone.bsky.social joins designer Abby Covert to spotlight the women who shaped UX, from the dawn of desktop computing to today. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/in-...

Per tradition, I dig into the latest "Best College Radio Station" list from Princeton Review. Psyched to see a handful of brand new entrants to the list: Washington and Lee University, Rollins College, John Carroll University and University of Portland. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/08/2026...

Nice to see this deep cut reference to a @radiosurvivor.bsky.social piece about baseball on the radio. www.news-gazette.com/arts-enterta...

Looking forward to connecting with campus and community radio folks in Canada this week! I'll be speaking about radio history and preservation and my work with @archive.org @dlarc.bsky.social on Tuesday June 18. PLUS, I'll be on hand for a screening of @35000watts.com that night.

🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

Need to relax? The Internet Archive is livestreaming microfiche scans to a lo-fi beats soundtrack www.fastcompany.com/91340395/int...

📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing. The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library. Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress. 🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays) ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the @rptf.bsky.social /BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program. Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join. Sign up at the BEA website: bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login

Here's the moment that 1000+ participants in @neal.fun's Internet Roadtrip finally reached the studios of WBOR, the student-run college radio station that they've been listening to (and interacting with) all week while traveling at a snail's pace through Maine.

Cool grant opportunity if you've got audio archives!

Satellite radio is the topic of our latest @radiosurvivor.bsky.social radio show/podcast episode! Thanks to @brianfauteux.bsky.social for schooling us about the history of satellite radio and its connections with the music industry. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/05/podc...

Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball. More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w... #PublicDomain #InternetArchive

Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers. Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.

Hooray for the important work of Common Frequency, supporting new community and college radio stations. Some great quotes from Todd Urick in this @radioworld.bsky.social piece. www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine. “A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish. 🔗 Explore: web.archive.org 🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

OK… I’m intrigued. Radio cameo in the Stranger Things musical on Broadway per this photo in a @wsj.com review.

A journalism teacher and student newspaper adviser at San Francisco’s prestigious Lowell High School says administrators removed him from these roles over student work, including a published article that quoted students complaining that they had been verbally harassed by teachers.

Frog party on @kfjc.org right now!

@cjsrfm.bsky.social is my first station tour in Canada and it was an amazing visit! A campus and community radio station at University of Alberta, its studio is located in an old bank vault. Full story on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social: www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/04/radi...

The @wetlandproject.bsky.social Earth Day broadcast of nature sounds is a lovely dose of calm. @kfjc.org is airing it most of the day. Listen at kfjc.org

I finally made it to the pre-dawn San Francisco earthquake commemoration on April 18. It was a very inspiring event, showcasing the resilience of our hardy citizens past and present.

Had a lovely chat with @planetbones.bsky.social about music discovery, college radio, and independent media. Thanks for inviting me to chat after my tour of KUCR!

Another college radio tour is posted on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social. I was excited to return to Bowling Green, OH to check out my old haunts, including college radio station WBGU. I have fond memories of my time there in the 90s: going to shows, tallying playlists for CMJ & making lifelong friends.

What did I do on my summer vacation circa 2023? On a fun road trip, I popped in to see a few college radio stations, including WONY-FM at SUNY Oneonta. Thanks to @abottomley.bsky.social for being my tour guide. Article now posted on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/04/radi...

It was such a treat to finally visit college radio station KUCR at UC Riverside. My tour is now posted on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/04/radi...

Cheers to all the human curators and to independent radio stations who are still an important force in music, news, and so much more...

Flashback to a 1970s April Fools’ show on the @haverfordcollege.bsky.social college radio station WHRC. Just added to the @dlarc.bsky.social college radio collection on @archive.org archive.org/details/whrc...

Just hit the 6,000 item mark for the college radio collection that I'm curating on @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org. There's something so very satisfying about round numbers...

Thanks to @carleton.edu for the mention of @radiosurvivor.bsky.social and my radio station tour series in their post about KRLX. www.carleton.edu/news/stories...

Better late than never! On @radiosurvivor.bsky.social weigh in on the latest "Best College Radio Station" list from Princeton Review. Just realized that the school topping the list doesn't seem to have a student radio station anymore (that I can find...). www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/03/2025...

Yuliya Chernova writes about how “News Services like Voice of America Helped Save My Family” in @wsj.com

The @radiosurvivor.bsky.social crew got together to do radio/podcast again. I recap news from college radio and the IBS conference and @mediageek.bsky.social shares podcasting wisdom and @sxsw.com highlights. Plus details on how to join the @wetlandproject.bsky.social slow radio Earth Day event.

🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark? From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever. 🎧 Listen now ⤵️ www.kqed.org/news/1203198...

My latest: spectrum.ieee.org/internet-arc... As a journalist, onetime archival library employee, and just a citizen, it was heartening to hear about the hard work digital archivists are constantly up to behind the scenes.

The 2011 purchase of KDFC was a little more complicated…

Happy World Radio Day! My heart belongs to college radio. Thanks to all the stations that have let me lurk in their halls and studios, including KUCR. Tour report to come…

The Library of Congress RPTF has partnered with Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) and Broadcast Education Association (BEA) to place grad students with mentors who specialize in sound research. beaweb.org/wp/rptf-ment...

Any of my fellow college radio folks going to IBSNYC2025 in NYC in March? Rates go up tomorrow. I'll be leading a session about preserving college radio history and archives. www.ibsradio.org

Love the use of archival research in this piece about college radio lore at WLOZ at UNCW! www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/l...

Still processing the loss of David Lynch. It was such a delight digging into his work even more deeply during my pandemic Twin Peaks podcast project: Back to the Double R. Time to rewatch it all again! www.backtothedoubler.com

A presentation to the Radio Amateur Training Planning and Activities Committee (RATPAC) titled "DLARC – The Free Online Ham Radio Library"—an overview of the wide range of Amateur Radio material available in the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjd...

Wave Farm is offering a sound engineering and public performance mentorship, among other opportunities this year. wavefarm.org/wf/newsroom/...

Merry Merry! I'm getting into the holiday spirit by perusing the amazing (and at time psychedelic) cover designs from Journal of College Radio. This one is from 1972. See them all in the @dlarc.bsky.social college radio collection. archive.org/details/jour...