From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!rlr
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: College stations in NY/NJ area
Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.252
Posted: Thu Jul 29 12:44:39 1982
Received: Fri Jul 30 04:33:01 1982

Just some slight correction's to Andy's notes on local college radio (a lot
of which is by no means commercial-free).  WNYU is at 89.1, and plays not only
"new wave" (and a lot of it) but also specialty programs (talk, 60's, swing,
etc.).  On weekends 89.1 becomes WFDU (of Fairly Ridiculous University), and
they too play new wave and other assorted programming as Andy indicated (I 
have not heard any folk oriented music; perhaps they've changed their
programming).  WRSU (Rutgers-New Brunswick, 88.7) also plays various styles,
concentrating on "n.w."  (I hate it, though, when a station tries to lump
its "cultural side" into one "classical show" per week).   Plus there's
WSIA (Staten Island, 89.5?), WPRB (Princeton, 103, and chock full of
commercials, but also playing a fairly good variety of alternatives), and,
if you are within three blocks of Trenton, WTSR (91.3, Trenton State), which
also concentrates on the dreaded "nuevo wavo", but has blocks of programming
devoted to electronic, ethnic, jazz and other music.
	One warning about all this college radio on the left end of the dial--
try tuning it in!!!!!  With their weak signals it is easy to get the "feature"
of "automatic station switching" between the likes of WBGO and WRSU, WFMU and
WTSR, and WNYU/WSIA and each other and just about everyone else.  Even WPRB,
on the right end of the dial and with a fairly strong signal, gets sucked
in by WMGK (yecccch!) and now the commercial free WAPP.  But for me it's
worth driving with one hand on the whell and one on the tuning knob just
to get some of their fine programming to a barely audible level (and keep it
there).  It beats four hours of commercial free non-stop Journey/Speedwagon
clones.					Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr