What Was/Is the Name of Your College Radio Show?

[bmurphyfl]

I'm guessing a lot of folks here had a radio show in college. So, I was curious what kind of music you played and what the name of the show was. There are usually some amusing show names.

My college station already had an overflow of people doing rock shows and a shortage of people willing to do specialty shows. So, to get a slot, I agreed to doing a blues show. It wasn't my passion but the Mondays 5-7pm slot was a lot better than the overnight slots that my friends were dealt.

Since the school was in Bethlehem, PA, the show was uncreatively titled "The Bethlehem Blues Show".

Murf

[YanksFC]

I went to college in the cultural wasteland that is Terre Haute, Indiana. I didn't host a show, but the university's radio station had a three-hour Sunday night program called "New Wave 90." It was a musical oasis in the desert of Terre Haute radio. The first songs I remember hearing on that station were "Those Are People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band, "Institutionalized" by the Suicidal Tendencies, and "Eighties" by Killing Joke.

I used to DJ parties in college. My favorite song to end the night was always "Takin' Retards to the Zoo" by the Dead Milkmen. It used to scare the crap out of all of those Southern Indiana people who were used to listening to Boston and Bad Company.

[B1]

We had two radio stations, one was AM and one was FM. I did shows on both. It was much more regimented on the FM side as WERS 88.9 FM in Boston is broadcast to a large area in MA. I was the host of Bluesology (11PM-2AM) for a 1 1/2 years, and Jazz Oasis (11AM-2PM) for two years. The days I hosted depended on the semester as the shows each were five days a week and I would host one day a week. I was a pretty good DJ, except I absolutely sucked at doing interviews with musicians Also doing those shows I found that Blues fans are pretty cool people, but Jazz fans can be real jackasses. The AM side was a bit ridiculous. I hosted the same show for 1 1/2 years before I realized it was a waste of time. The station was only picked up in the dorms and Emerson buildings. If I had more than a dozen people combined listen to me over that time I'd be shocked. I created my own show. Each week I would select a single artist or band and play only their material. I played a wide range of stuff, from Public Enemy to Fishbone to Bob Dylan to Edith Piaff. Whatever I felt like and whoever I could round up enough material on to cover two hours. I called the show "We interrupt this broadcast.." I had a whole shtick with the guy before me who played Phish and Dead tunes. I would cut into the last song he played, which I would let run into my time slot, with a "We interrupt this broadcast" soundbite and go into a song from the band I was playing that night. Or use the most popular and overplayed song from the band I was playing and then use the soundbite and go into something more obscure.

[Crimen y Castigo]

Fabrizio Ravanelli's Endless Parade of Hits.



(Wasn't exactly college radio, but few enough people were listening that I believe it qualifies)

[BakedAlaskan]

My college thrash metal show was titled "Air Guitar Theatre" and it has now evolved to "Ancho-RAGE with Mike Rage" on a commercial station

[The Rising Suun]

My partner DJ and I never did come up with a name. This year I plan on going solo. I think I should call it "Better than winning the league at White Heart Lane two years running" and see how many folks get it.

[nicodemus]

My college didn't have a radio station when I started there. However, me & a handful of others berated the administration constantly with letters and emails (and they even had several meetings with us), wrote countless editorials about how the university needed one for entertainment purposes, not to mention that broadcast majors needed a place to practice. I was the first one out of that group of 'lobbyists' to graduate, so I never got to have my own show, but the school did get a station the year after I graduated. Eventhough I never had a show, I helped land a show for anyone there that ever had a show. :)

The closest thing I ever got to DJing a show was the school did choose me to pick the music for their recruiting video. I'm sure they broke some copyright laws using that stuff, but it probably had the best a music a recruiting video ever had.

I put on some rock, electronic stuff, jazz, African music, etc. Good times.

[Pack87Man]

I went to college in the cultural wasteland that is Terre Haute, Indiana. I didn't host a show, but the university's radio station had a three-hour Sunday night program called "New Wave 90." It was a musical oasis in the desert of Terre Haute radio. The first songs I remember hearing on that station were "Those Are People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band, "Institutionalized" by the Suicidal Tendencies, and "Eighties" by Killing Joke.

I used to DJ parties in college. My favorite song to end the night was always "Takin' Retards to the Zoo" by the Dead Milkmen. It used to scare the crap out of all of those Southern Indiana people who were used to listening to Boston and Bad Company.
So did you go to ISU or Rose?

[YanksFC]

ISU.

[biggyv]

My show was similar to B1's second show, in that it was on Syracuse's AM station that could basically be heard in the dorms, and just off campus. The FM station was commercial (moreso than 'ERS, think FNX B1). My show was called $240 Worth of Pudding. 12AM - 3AM on Sat. nights, so I'd basically drink for a couple hours before and a couple hours after my show, and occasionally during. Mostly hip-hop, threw in a little R&B, some triphop stuff, and I'd play one song from an '80's hair band at 1:30. I received a total of 4 calls for requests the entire semester, and one was from my roommate. It was lots of fun. I'd show up early, do some bits on the show before mine, then they'd stick around and mess around on my show. Good times.

[FlashMan]

I called mine Stick to Me, which is the name of an old Graham Parker song. This was in 1982 and 1983. I opened up every show with that song.

I played every punk, new wave and the occasional Springsteen/Dylan/CC&R and Stones song that I knew about.

[TheLimeChicken]

We had two radio stations, one was AM and one was FM. I did shows on both. It was much more regimented on the FM side as WERS 88.9 FM in Boston is broadcast to a large area in MA. I was the host of Bluesology (11PM-2AM) for a 1 1/2 years, and Jazz Oasis (11AM-2PM) for two years. The days I hosted depended on the semester as the shows each were five days a week and I would host one day a week. I was a pretty good DJ, except I absolutely sucked at doing interviews with musicians Also doing those shows I found that Blues fans are pretty cool people, but Jazz fans can be real jackasses. The AM side was a bit ridiculous. I hosted the same show for 1 1/2 years before I realized it was a waste of time. The station was only picked up in the dorms and Emerson buildings. If I had more than a dozen people combined listen to me over that time I'd be shocked. I created my own show. Each week I would select a single artist or band and play only their material. I played a wide range of stuff, from Public Enemy to Fishbone to Bob Dylan to Edith Piaff. Whatever I felt like and whoever I could round up enough material on to cover two hours. I called the show "We interrupt this broadcast.." I had a whole shtick with the guy before me who played Phish and Dead tunes. I would cut into the last song he played, which I would let run into my time slot, with a "We interrupt this broadcast" soundbite and go into a song from the band I was playing that night. Or use the most popular and overplayed song from the band I was playing and then use the soundbite and go into something more obscure.


ERS may very well be the best radio station in the country. I'm a loyal listener of the Coffee House (singer/songwriter type stuff, weekday mornings), Revolutions (electronica, weeknights 11P-3A), and when I can The Gyroscope (world music, weekdays 2P-5P).

On topic, I did a show freshman and sophomore years at WUMF-Farmington, ME. Our broadcast range was basically the student center, some nights I could pick it up in the dorm. Didn't name either of my shows, freshman year I played all cheesy 80s new-wave. I had this really awful schtick where I would claim every song was by a fictional band called The Lime Chicken (origin of my handle). So I'd play Rock Lobster by the B-52's and say "There was The Lime Chicken with Rock Lobster", and do the same with each song I played for the next two hours...Like I said, it was awful. Sophomore year I played a bunch of "post-rock" stuff...Godspeed!, Mogwai, Tortoise, etc. That show was a little better.

The next year they ponied the $$ up for some additional wattage, so not only did the station reach off-campus (major plus), but they started enforcing things like FCC regulations and making DJs play certain amounts of rotation (major negative), so I quit.

[biggyv]

ERS may very well be the best radio station in the country. I'm a loyal listener of the Coffee House (singer/songwriter type stuff, weekday mornings), Revolutions (electronica, weeknights 11P-3A), and when I can The Gyroscope (world music, weekdays 2P-5P).



I loved 88.9 At Night back in the day, when it was called "Soul of the City" and then "Flava of the City." Tape Deck Tuesdays were the best, and Cherry Martinez played the best old-school hip-hop around. I think she's on Power 105 in NYC now.

[Mr Fish]

Boston U.'s student station, WTBU, was broadcast on carrier current to the largest dorms, which wasn't ideal for people to hear you. My show, "Rock n' Roll High School" included heavy U2, Smiths, Cure, Depeche Mode, Ramones (of course), etc. etc.

Also did color commentary for BU football (r.i.p.), BU Basketball, and a BU Hockey game or two. My sometime broadcast parther and sports director, Sean Grande, is now the radio play-by-play voice of the Boston Celtics.

[sonicdream]

Mine was called "Twenty Jazz Funk Greats"

But it was more of a homage to Throbbing Gristle and their compilation album, and nothing to do with jazz/funk.

That being said, most of the music during my 3 hr stint was new-wave, punk and alternative stuff....

[Flyer Fan]

When I was at University of Dayton there was a radio show called "The G-Spot." The host, I can't remember his name, had a last name that started with "G." Once the show's name became more public - basically after the first show - the host was forced to change its name because some people complained. I remember numerous bed sheet signs in The Ghetto saying "Save 'The G-Spot'" and stuff like that.

[Michael K.]

Blatant bit of self-promotion here, but I'll be filling in as host of Radio Free Athens tomorrow morning from 6-9, on WOUB-AM (www.woub.org - click on the AM stream). It's a sorta-Americana-ish show, but I've got plenty of freedom to work in whatever I want, and I will. Got a request? Check the recent playlists out here (http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/woub-am/guide.guidemain?action=searchPlaylist2&newSearch=true&programID=5234&startTime=0&endTime=0) and then shoot me a PM or put it here and I'll see what I can do. I was looking forward to putting together a Premiership Morning mix for the 7-7:30 block for all you early wakers, but that'll have to wait till another week.