 |
Photo credit: Will Faller |
Listen Anytime Online to WVKR, Vassar’s Independent Radio 91.3 FM
Did you know that you can listen to 91.3 FM, WVKR, Vassar’s independent radio station, anytime online? Visithttp://www.wvkr.org to hear daily live broadcasts from the station.
WVKR, which began in the early ’70s as an AM station broadcast from Main Building just to the on-campus community, transferred to an FM frequency by 1975 and reached an 18-mile radius outside the Vassar campus. Transmission shifted to a stronger, off-campus transmitter in 1994, offering 24-hour, year-round programming to listeners in five (New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) states.
Almost completely student-run, WVKR also features community DJs that help put out the mix of programming that encompasses everything from a Polish hour to the nationally syndicated Democracy Now!: The War and Peace Report to classic country to a program called Library Cafe, on which scholars, artists, and librarians talk with Vassar Art Librarian Thomas Hill about books, ideas, and the formation and circulation of knowledge.