bumping this thread.
This is a big deal because WRAS is a 100,000 watt station and a powerhouse of alternative broadcasting in the South-East–which is notably culturally conservative–for four decades+. If you’re not familiar with FM wattages, look up your most powerful local commercial station’s wattage and note how many less zeros there are. It is fully non-commercial and it is (but will no longer be) student-operated. This is a game-changer for the whole region.
Mindysan and I learned that we are both longtime Album 88 listeners via a [thread][1] she made about the effects of last winter’s polar vortex storms crushing the south, which knocked out the station’s transmitter for a while. So when I heard the news about the switch, I went back to that thread to commiserate and that’s how she came to quote me on a few things in her article.
I’m sure happy mutants everywhere cut their musical teeth on college radio. Any support is appreciated.
[1]: Southern snow horror stories
