Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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After a long summer of hard work, WWRC was ready to begin a new era of broadcasting service to the Rider community. The initial sign-on from our new studios in the Student Center came at 10:30 a.m. on September 15, 1970. With this broadcast, we realized the dreams not only of our founders, but of every member that had ever worked for the station. The WWRC that began in September was far different from WWRC of last May. We had changed in many ways. The management was new, as was the music. WWRC had traditionally been a Top 40 station, but with the change in management, a new music policy evolved. We began programming all of the different kinds of music that went into the making of today's pro- gressive rock. This includes Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Folk, Soul and even Classical music. We expanded our programming hours and now broadcast 7 days per week, 18 hours per day. This is more than most college stations in the country. Our News Department has expanded and now presents feature shows built around current campus is- sues. A regular monthly program has been scheduled with Dr. Elliott and a similar program with the SGA pres- ident. Both programs are informational in nature and are aimed at furnishing the students with needed infor- mation on the issues at hand. The Sports Department presents two nightly sport shows, along with covering most home and away basketball game. The biggest programming event of the year has al- ways been the Marathon. Its purpose is to raise money for charity. ln past years our Marathons have been quite successful. For example, in 1966 WWRC raised S640 dollars for the American Cancer Society and raised S412 in 1967 for the United States Olympic Team. The Marathons of 1968 and 1969 raised over 35,000 for Mul- tiple Sclerosis, and this year's marathon Calso for MSJ is expected to be as huge a success. This year's Mara- thon features a car raffle, auctions, concerts and-as al- ways-good music. I The WWRC of the future will offer more complete news and sports coverage with the addition of a wire service to our facilities. The possibility of obtaining an FM license has become an ever increasing reality. Its addition will enable Trenton residents to be more well informed about Rider news and sporting events, as well as its many educational speeches and lectures. It's hard to believe what has taken place at WWRC since the old bedroom days of WRCR of 1960. We now have the best equipment available on the market today and facilities nicer than most commercial stations. But all of this means nothing unless you have a good staff to operate the station. This year the staff of WWRC did an outstanding job, providing the Rider community with 75

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WWRC A New Dimension ln Campus Media by Andrew Glantz, WWRC General Manager Looking back and tracing the course of events which led to the development of WWRC, as it exists today, is no easy task. To do this properly, one must have ex- perienced or have been part of the many changes that have taken place. This complicates the job somewhat because no station member has experienced more than four years of change. Thanks to the forethought of ear- lier station managers, however, many of the events that took place during our early years have been preserved in writing. Plans for WRCR were formulated during the first two months of 1960. At that time, Michael Brooks and Ira Kinder fits foundersy decided that Rider College,- with a brand new campus-was ready for its own radio station. They made arrangements with Princeton Univer- sity to have a transmitter constructed. WRCR's first broadcasts originated from Mike's room. Within the next two years, David Ressler constructed more transmitters, as well as the old control room board. WRCR officially hit the airwaves on March 8, 1960. Later that spring we increased our daily broadcast time from two hours to four hours in the late afternoon, fol- lowed by two more hours of programming after study hours. Music formed most of the programming with a few interview type shows tossed in. Rider Radio was officially recognized when it was listed in the 1961-1962 issue of the College catalogue. On November 5, 1962, the Federal Communications Commission also recognized Rider Radio and issued its permanent call-letters-WWRC. During the school year 1963-64, we became affiliated with the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, a national organization for col- lege radio stations. Last year, WWRC broadcast from 6:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. with the remainder of the morning hours having se- lected FM music. Home and away basketball games were broadcast, as well as away baseball contests, and for the first time Rider students were able to express their opinions over the air on both the Talk and Star- light Penthouse shows by way of our seven second delay system. 1970 also marked the conclusion of nine continuous years of broadcasting from the Hill base- ment facilities, for at 1:25 a.m. on May 20 WWRC signed-off the air for the last time from those facilities. Immediately following this, preparations were made for our move to the new studios in the Student Center. To say that we badly needed our new studios, in addition to the new equipment, was and is an understatement. We had completely outgrown our nine-year home and needed an extra room for the continual growth that our new studios would allow. 74

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the latest in music, news and sports. WWFIC has indeed earned the to be called a completee collegiate servief' In short, WWRC is only as good as those on the staff want it to be. And those on the staff, besides myself, were as follows: Andrew Glantz-General Manager lrv Hamm-Program Director Marc Hollander-Chief Announcer Neil Miller-Chief Engineer Mike Fenster-Business Manager Alan Gebroe-Special Events Coordinator Joe Rosenberg-Music Director Tom Doyle-Taping Director Mike Diamond-Sports Director - X' -' li MI 7 -,,,,.. X A ' 1 ., . -al 'f'-it X ' ' . x ,,..:g. - J , ,..v10fA' Q 76 K P Susan DeVine-Traffic Director Sharon Poinsett-Publicity Directors Sue Bilanin-Publicity Director Mary Alkons-Copy Director Linda Zamkow-Librarian Leslie Kempler, Iris Kaplan-Historians st l ,