Radio station articles
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Radio Ryhope, the Sunderland 'station' which operated out of a shed
You just could not keep Ryhope out of the news headlines in 1979. It’s the year when all of this happened and we want your memories of it. Amateur DJ Alan Scollan, 15, was a hit with his broadcasts from a backyard shed. His mother Olive Scollan said: “He’s got a good little selection. Sometimes I would rather listen to him than the wireless. “He puts on special records for his dad and the little ones who gather in the house with his younger sister.” Three Ryhope schoolboys were knocking on...
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Catching up with Columbia’s student radio station after a historic broadcast
The student-run radio station at Columbia, WKCR, has been praised widely for its coverage of campus protests. The station’s popularity even led the website to, briefly, crash. And some have said the students should win a Pulitzer Prize. (This point helped poke at an irony embedded in such a situation: The prizes are given at […]
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New Amherstburg digital radio station aims for ‘comfortable listening’
The digital world has opened up many new possibilities for creative people, and that world now includes an Amherstburg-based online radio station called Border City Radio. Owner Donna Tuckwell started the station in February after taking the media course at St. Clair College. After a career as a 911 operator in Nova Scotia and time […]