My 202nd radio station tour is of college radio station WCCH-FM at Holyoke Community College. Its studio resembles a large safe or industrial walk-in freezer. Baby blue on the outside, only the studio door is plastered with band and radio station stickers. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/05/radi...

The Internet Archive celebrates its 30th anniversary this week. In honor of its launch in 1996, here are some 1996 highlights from the @dlarc.bsky.social college radio collection. First up, a Fall 1996 program guide from Bowling Green State University station WBGU-FM. archive.org/details/WBGU...

A 1986 paper about new technology in radio ends with a critique of college radio, bemoaning the fact that stations were emphasizing "fun and self-expression." Such heresy. I cannot imagine college radio without those two features. archive.org/details/micr...

Our Library of Congress RPTF caucus, the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, featured by The Guardian today!

Listening to @wgxc-90point7fm.bsky.social and am enjoying the @radiosurvivor.bsky.social rebroadcast of the episode about @dlarc.bsky.social . This prompted my fascination with this amazing collection on @archive.org and later led to me curating the college radio collection! wavefarm.org/listen

Happy High School Radio Day! Thanks to all the stations that have opened your doors to us for radio tours, including the eleven high school stations that we've visited. Full list in our archive. #HighSchoolRadioDay www.radiosurvivor.com/radio-statio...

Happy High School Radio Day! In @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org , we have a small collection of high school radio items, including this 1973 playlist report from WHJE in Carmel, Indiana. archive.org/details/whje...

Happy Radio Week to WMHC Radio! The student-run college radio station at Mount Holyoke College is the focus of my 201st radio station tour report. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

Student journalists' free press rights tested at Marin County high school edsource.org?page_id=756721

Since 2008 I've been obsessively touring radio stations. For my 200th field trip report, I was psyched to visit WOZQ-FM at Smith College. Radio has a rich history at Smith and it's wonderful to see enthusiastic participants continuing that amazing legacy. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

"Even though I don’t have a show, I feel really like a part of a broader community of music heads,” sophomore Seamus Kelley told Radio Survivor about WMUA. https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radio-station-visit-198-wmua-fm-at-university-of-massachusetts-amherst/ Photo: J. Waits

Happy World Amateur Radio Day!

Torching the The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine is akin to burning the Library of Alexandria and wiping our digital memory - at a moment when media corporations and the government want to hermetically seal us in a bubble of their propaganda. We cannot let this happen.

So sad to hear the news today that Hampshire College will close. Thinking of everyone there—in particular the folks at Yurt Radio. I’m glad that I was able to visit last month.

Western Massachusetts has many historic college radio stations and WAMH at Amherst College is one of them. WAMH's funky space has graffiti-covered walls, manatees, and a Leo Blais sign amongst the records and CDs. And it's my 199th station tour! www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth. The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors. ➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

My western Massachusetts radio station tours continue with a visit to WMUA-FM at UMass Amherst. The vibrant station is full of DIY artwork, vinyl records, CDs, and signs of its nearly 80-year-old history. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

My wintry western Massachusetts flurry of station tours continues with a visit to 50+ year old WNEK at Western New England University in Springfield, MA. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

People regularly ask me to name the best college radio station or my favorite station. I always demur. But...Yurt Radio at Hampshire College has one of the most amazing college radio station buildings that I've ever seen. I'm glad I saw it in its winter glory. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

DLARC: The Radio Geek’s Doomscrolling Antidote 📻🌀 The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications brings together 225,000+ items, from magazines and QSL cards to audio & video, all free via the #InternetArchive. 📚💿 Tune in ⤵️ www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus... #AmateurRadio #RadioHistory

In celebration of CiTR's FM anniversary today, I share my newest college radio field trip report. The campus and community radio station at University of British Columbia is full of personality, fun artifacts, and "is in fact a Nadwuar cult."

A beautiful feature in RadioWorld about the DLARC library — DLARC: The Radio Geek’s Doomscrolling Antidote www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

I love stories like this, where folks speak out and are able to preserve a campus radio station that was at risk of closure. Congrats to @chmrfm.bsky.social !

Thanks to Nick Langan of Radio World for the deep dive into the DLARC collection on @archive.org. It's a wonderful to know that he finds it as amazing a resource for radio geeks as we do! The piece highlights the vast array of ham radio materials and beyond in this ever-growing library.

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🎙️ Why preserve college radio? Radio researcher Jennifer Waits stopped by @cjsfradio.bsky.social to talk about her work building a global archive of college, community, and amateur radio and inviting stations to contribute their history. 📻 🎧 Full interview ⬇️ soundcloud.com/cjsfradio/in... 🧵 1️⃣/2️⃣

How did Mickey Mouse go from borrowing hit songs to building Disney’s musical legacy? 🎶 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strips referenced popular tunes, then Disney introduced its own “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo,” marking the shift from borrowing music to creating it. Learn more 👇 blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/m...

It was sweet of @cjsfradio.bsky.social to share my CJSF tour report about the campus and community radio station. I was also interviewed for the Bitcouver show, which was a ton of fun. We chatted about college radio history, @archive.org & our shared Silicon Valley youth! www.cjsf.ca/news/cjsf-fe...

It was amazing to see USPS mail tubs in a Canadian radio station, along with all sorts of obscure music, record label stickers of personal significance, and so much more. CJSF at Simon Fraser University is my latest college radio station tour report. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/02/radi...

How many college radio stations are in Lifetime movies? Look closely during "Danger in the Dorm" (starring Bethenny Frankel of RHONY) & you might spot CIVL-FM. The University of the Fraser Valley station (in Abbotsford, BC, Canada) is my latest tour. www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/02/radi...

🎉 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/t... 🧵1️⃣/5️⃣ #WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive

Happy World Radio Day! Radio archives are the best. Celebrate by combing through @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org. Some of the latest college radio goodies include playlists, stickers, handwritten record reviews & transcribed interviews with literary luminaries. blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t...

Big thanks to @chly.ca for hosting @ncraanrec.bsky.social and for the fun times in Nanaimo, BC, Canada! Here's my latest radio station tour report, including photos from a bonus trip to the CHLY transmitter site.

Oh, Canada! So excited to launch my series of Canadian radio station tours. First stop is CFUV at University of Victoria. The campus & community station launched over FM 40 years ago, but there were a fascinating series of radio activities before its 1985 debut. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

WESU at Wesleyan University is the final stop on my flurry of 2025 east coast college radio station tours. For those with a station tour bingo card: I spotted a Leo Blais sign AND a Steve Keene painting! www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

A match made in heaven: library + radio station. My latest @radiosurvivor.bsky.social tour is of community radio station KYRS-FM, which is located in the Spokane Central Library. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

WYBC has an amazing history, with student radio initially launching at Yale with a carrier current station in 1941, before expanding to licensed FM & AM stations that reach the broader New Haven community. See my tour of student-run college radio station WYBCx. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/12/radi...

Glad to finally get to see Williams College radio station WCFM. Thanks to Josh Picoult for already doing the archival work to trace the station's history. Student amateur radio broadcasts in the late 1930s led to the creation of carrier current station WMS in 1940 and then FM station WCFM in 1957.

Thanks to @hclibraries.bsky.social for the support and for preserving college radio history! www.haverford.edu/marketing-an...

I was happy to get Alison and Liam from @xcsbcleveland.bsky.social on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social to discuss the latest news about to the shutdown of Cleveland State's student-run college radio station WCSB. Sad footnote: WCSB used to air the Radio Survivor show. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/podc...

I was so charmed by WRMC's colorful space. Lavender and pink walls lead to hallway containing a sweet mural. The personality-filled walls hinted at the treasures to come throughout my visit to the 75+ year old college radio station at Middlebury College. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

What a pleasure to unearth details about a 1950s Bennington College radio station while completing my latest radio station tour piece. B-Rad is the station today and it is the latest in a long line of fascinating student-built stations. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

I loved visiting Bates College radio station WRBC. The station has it all: sticker-covered walls, thrifted furniture, oodles of history, and a signal that artfully bleeds into a religious station as you enter or leave town. Article on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

I continue to be amazed by the cool projects undertaken by college radio participants. KXDU operates from a tiny space at University of Denver and does a ton to promote the vibrant music scene on campus. Read my tour on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/11/radi...

I went down a serious rabbit hole to find the origins of the claim that Regis University is home to Denver's oldest college radio station KRCX. Learn more in my tour report on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radi...

Read my report on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social about the recent shutdown of college radio station WCSB at Cleveland State. Students and supporters are fighting this deal, which puts jazz programming on the formerly student-run station's FM channel. They share updates at @xcsbcleveland.bsky.social.

Happy Internet Archive Day! Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built! If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library! 🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h... #Wayback1T

College/community radio is alive and well! My new tour report features @wmpg.org at University of Southern Maine. WMPG has been in the limelight thanks to a documentary making the festival circuit. The buzz within the station was also palpable during my visit. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radi...