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51-904: Wehr may refer to: WEHR , a former radio station owned by Penn State University Wehr, Baden-Württemberg , Germany Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany Wehr, a village in Selfkant , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany People with the surname [ edit ] Dick Wehr (1925–2011), American professional basketball player Hans Wehr (1909–1981), German Arabist Julian Wehr (1898–1970), American author of children's books Todd Wehr (1889–1965), American industrialist and philanthropist Wesley Wehr (1929–2004), American palaeontologist Thomas Wehr , American psychiatrist See also [ edit ] Ver (disambiguation) Vera (disambiguation) Vere (disambiguation) Verus (disambiguation) WER (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

102-525: A "Brave-a-thon", a day of fundraising for the station featuring 15 live, local artists. 2013 was the fifth year of the Brave-a-thon. In 2009, WPSC had its first simulcast with WXAV , a college radio station in Chicago. The event, dubbed Unsung Underground Uprising, featured performances and interviews with We Are Scientists , Band of Skulls , and Very Emergency. In 2011, WPSC was the national headquarters for

153-458: A brand-new student-run radio station in the tradition of WDFM prior to its professionalization. The new station would seek to serve the listening community by providing alternative and cultural programming not found in local commercial radio. WKPS went on the air on Halloween on Tuesday, October 31, 1995. The first song ever played on its airwaves was "Please Play This Song on the Radio" by NOFX . WKPS

204-464: A curricular-focused campus news segment. The LION 90.7fm still references this incident from time to time through audio imaging on the station. An article and partial transcript of the incident was published by a local independent newspaper, and complete audio of the incident continues to exist online. Student staffers had only begun to get settled, however, when in 2004, newly installed Vice President of Student Affairs Vicky Triponey cut all funding to

255-453: A day 5 days a week to 18 and a half hours 7 days a week. Beginning in 1977, WPSC began broadcasting on UA Columbia Cablevision 's Channel 3 bringing the station into tens of thousands of living rooms in Passaic , Morris , and Bergen Counties. Programming was mostly AOR/Progressive Rock but also included some Top 40, Oldies, and Soul/R&B/Disco shows. All programming reflected the choices of

306-510: A more modern look. The WP88.7 and FM were removed and the fonts were updated to match the contemporary design of the tower. The word new is bolded in the logo instead of brave to capture the station's focus on fresh, new, original music. WPSC is the national HQ for College Radio Day , the first of which was October 11, 2011. The aim of College Radio Day is raise awareness of the many college and high school radio stations in America, and to celebrate

357-512: A point of pride for the station that has been a staple in the North Jersey radio landscape for decades. The earliest form of WPSC began as a broadcasting system that fed a former student snack bar and common area was set up by enterprising students in the Fall of 1965. With the blessing and support of Dr. Anthony Maltese, this facility proved popular and was quickly upgraded. These humble beginnings set

408-493: Is William Paterson University 's non-commercial radio station, broadcasting an alternative hip hop format . Licensed to Wayne, New Jersey , the station serves the north Jersey and western New York City area. In 2012, 2013, 2017 and, most recently, March 2018, the station was named Best College Radio Station (with over 10K students enrolled) by the Intercollegiate Broadcast System. Brave New Radio serves as

459-556: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WEHR LION 90.7fm transmits to a potential audience of over 125,000 from its studio in the Hetzel Union Building (HUB)-Robeson Center. The station also has a live webcast , which is capable of streaming live to hundreds of listeners. WKPS is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with

510-461: The WP88.7 moniker, the station launched its annual Braveathon, a 15-hour live broadcast supporting local musicians. Braveology was the station's flagship music show. Airing weekdays from 9 am to 7 pm, the format was labeled as WPSC's signature blend of music. In December 2016, WPSC began to shift programming away from hard rock to better align with trends among the student body. In January 2017, Indie Pop

561-625: The 1960s, WHR was the first of three stations at Penn State specific to University Park residence halls. WHR, which stood for West Halls Radio, rebroadcast the WDFM signal and also produced and broadcast original content to its area residence halls. On the AM dial, there also existed WEHR, a radio station in Penn State's East Residence Halls ("EHR" stands for "East Halls Radio"). At one time, three of Penn State's five residence areas possessed their own stations. WEHR

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612-412: The 1980s onward, student programming was progressively cut back. Later in the decade, more NPR programming was added to the schedule. By 1992, WPSU had become a full-fledged NPR affiliate with very few student ties and very little student programming. Despite the fact that the "new" radio station's mission and goals were dissimilar to those of early WDFM, the university allowed WPSU to exist. Founded in

663-499: The College wired its student news studio into the station's sound board without proper communication or permission, leading to an incident known locally as "The LION Riot". It was at this time that faculty members of the College of Communications entered the WKPS studios while students were broadcasting live, proceeding to reprimand student broadcasters on-air for a perceived failure to broadcast

714-456: The DJs on the air during their shift and also included phoned in requests. During this time, WPSC was entirely student staffed and operated with all funding coming from WPC's Student Government Association and supplemented by a small revenue stream from commercial advertising. Faculty oversight and involvement was minimal to non-existent. The first format broadcast on WPSC's new FM frequency, Laser Hits!

765-724: The Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. This marks their tenth nomination after four wins for the category in 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018. Other nominations in 2022 include Best Morning Show, Best Campus News Coverage, Best Program Director, Best Website and more. Over the years, WP 88.7 FM has featured notable on-air guests, including the bands Weezer and Steel Train , artists Jon Anderson of Yes , Dana Fuchs , John Lloyd Young and Frank Stallone , comic Carol Leifer , entertainer Penn Jillette , Janet Hubert of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and WFAN's Keith McPherson on College Radio Day in 2023. Every year WPSC hosts

816-554: The Penn State Alumni Association. The Alumni Interest Group had been founded in 2005 by then-faculty adviser Robert K. Zimmerman , but had become inactive after his death in 2007. Mike Gogel, a former President and General Manager of WKPS, became president of the Alumni Interest Group in 2009. During his two-year tenure the group created The Robert K. Zimmerman Endowment for Student Broadcasting at Penn State ,

867-480: The Penn State Community. In late 2005, student General Manager Brandon W. Peach assumed the responsibility for putting the station back on the right financial track. While the problems with the administration would continue to grow, the radio station has been able to procure aid from alternate sources and continue to provide an outlet for multi-format student radio. In 2006, the Alumni Interest Group renewed

918-477: The Penn State community for the purpose of connecting students, alumni, professors, and friends passionate about creating and promoting a more robust cultural environment through media." Specifically, the Penn State Media Association re-imagined its role in order to "support a diversity of student media endeavors, and relatedly, to promote a holistic approach to supporting student media that recognizes

969-521: The SOBC, were not so inclined to give the station money. UPAC cut funding for The Lion 90.7FM by 80 percent during the 2000-2001 academic year, a decrease which nearly crippled the station. Student General Manager Mike Walsh secured funding from the office of Student Affairs, with its Vice President Bill Asbury allegedly promising to provide funding support for an additional five years. The exact terms of this verbal contract are contested—when Vicky Triponey became

1020-647: The Senior Gift of the Class of 1912. Initially an experimental shortwave installation, it represented "the first licensed club in the nation" and possessed "one of the first experimental licenses" granted by the government. By 1921 WPSC was broadcasting on the AM dial at 500 watts and was one of the earliest college radio stations in the nation. Due to a combination of the Great Depression and increasing costs of regulatory compliance,

1071-520: The State College community and Penn State students with public service; secondarily, the need to provide a hands-on, co-curricular learning environment for students of any academic major interested in broadcast media; and finally, to provide a recreational extracurricular activity for students. Therefore, WKPS was open to students of all majors, not specifically those in the College of Communications for broadcast media. The station offered opportunities that

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1122-551: The Vice President of Student Affairs, the University claimed Asbury only promised three years. In order to secure more professional oversight for the station, LION 90.7fm attempted the following year to create a mutually beneficial partnership with Penn State's College of Communications. The University agreed to create such a relationship, and the office of Student Affairs and the College of Communications each offered to pay half of

1173-407: The air, Brave New Radio expanded its digital reach through various social media platforms and an intensive visual rebranding process. In March 2018, the station was awarded for its unique use of Instagram and Spotify to capture audience. The visual rebranding maintained the tower logo that had been an important part of Brave New Radio since its inception in 2008 and simplified the iconography for

1224-447: The arrival of new general manager, Rob Quicke, came a large rebranding effort to bring the station back to the forefront of FM programming in North Jersey. In 2008, WPSC rebranded to WP88.7 Brave New Radio . The format remained very similar to the previous, mainly Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, and Punk with a deep focus in playing music from local and independent artists and creating programming that would never be heard anywhere else. Under

1275-571: The early radio station relied heavily on the staff of WPSU-FM 91.5 FM, with whom they shared the University-rented James building (also shared by the Daily Collegian ). Any oversight and support were extremely short-lived, however: WPSU relocated in May 1998. According to its Federal Communications Commission , WKPS tweaked the original goals of WDFM, citing primarily the need to provide for

1326-403: The first endowed fund benefiting WKPS to support the perpetual financial needs of student broadcasting. In 2011, another former President and General Manager, Brandon W. Peach, was elected to head the Alumni Interest Group. During his tenure the name of the group changed to the Penn State Media Association, while its mission expanded beyond traditional broadcasting to foster "relationships across

1377-429: The founding headquarters for World College Radio Day , an annual event created by the station's former general manager. In 2011, WPSC was one of the top 25 stations nominated for the mtvU Woodie Award for Best College Radio Station. The station is staffed almost entirely by students, with a paid faculty advisor serving as the general manager. All programming, music, promotions, and creative decisions are made by students,

1428-488: The important medium of college radio. in 2015 a group of students and faculty attended the White House and were presented with a Letter of Support from President Barack Obama Brave New Radio broadcasts an alternative hip hop format Monday through Friday, 9 am to 7 pm. Specialty programming and non-format shows air after 7 pm during the week and all day Saturday and Sunday. A comprehensive schedule can be found on

1479-654: The interdisciplinary nature of contemporary media." In 2014, the Penn State Media Association launched its second capital campaign, this time to create the "Penn State Media Association Trustee Scholarship for Student Broadcasters." The capital campaign seeks to endow this scholarship to benefit WKPS students with demonstrated financial need, and once realized will produce more than $ 10,000 annually in available scholarship assistance to student broadcasters. 40°47′58″N 77°52′11″W  /  40.79944°N 77.86972°W  / 40.79944; -77.86972 WPSC WPSC-FM (88.7 FM ) – branded Brave New Radio –

1530-492: The previous student radio stations hadn't seen including, in 1999, the start of students broadcasting Penn State football, and in 2001, the start of internet web-streaming of the station. Incidentally, "WKPS" was the fictitious student radio station featured in the 1990 film Pump Up The Volume , starring Christian Slater . By 2000, students in the University Park Allocations Committee, which replaced

1581-542: The previous year, were launched for student and community audience of both State College residents and distant alumni. The webcasts continue to be popular, nearly reaching their listener capacity limit each time The LION 90.7fm broadcasts a Penn State football game. In 2008, President and General Manager Tom Shakely began working with alumni to resuscitate the Penn State Student Radio Alumni Interest Group, an affiliate non-profit organization of

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1632-549: The primary goal being to serve the campus and local community and secondary goals being the training, education and instruction of students in broadcast radio and station management. The station is run entirely by Penn State undergraduates, and maintains its tradition of public service by allowing student broadcasters from any academic major and community broadcasters local to the area. It also retains its programmatic independence by remaining unaffiliated with any academic college. WPSC, Penn State's original student station, emerged from

1683-479: The radio station. Though she allegedly cited WKPS's flagship talk show Radio Free Penn State as the cause, she denied that its administratively-critical tack led to her decision. Instead, she claimed that The Lion 90.7FM was only promised three years of support by Asbury, a charge Asbury himself did not contest. The station managed to stay afloat, and with charitable contributions from listeners and alumni and help from UPAC, The Lion 90.7FM maintained its position in

1734-475: The salary for a faculty adviser, which the new station had lacked since its inception. Jeff Brown, the faculty adviser, quickly moved to promote the agenda of the College of Communications - to create an exclusively co-curricular experience - without regard to the station's stated goals or charter as an extracurricular club in Student Affairs. The rocky relationship continued and reached a boiling point when

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1836-555: The same, continuing a focus on Indie Pop and Indie Rock. In January 2018, Brave New Radio dropped Punk from the main format, dayparting Punk, Metal, and Classic Rock to late nights on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. With this shift, the station added Alternative hip hop to its main format with early adds like SZA , GoldLink , Khalid , and King Krule . In August 2021, Brave New Radio shifted to primarily focus on Alternative and underground Hip Hop, dayparting classic and alternative rock to only on weekends. Coinciding with shifts in formatting on

1887-660: The stage for decades of radio broadcasting from William Paterson. During the 1970s WPSC-AM broadcast on campus, both over the air and piped into various buildings on campus while the quest for an FM frequency in the very crowded NY/NJ market began. For a time (1972–1974) WPSC also had an arrangement with WFMU to broadcast a weekly 2-hour pre-recorded program on WFMU. Between 1974 and 1978, programming expanded to include hourly newscasts, live sports events, campus and community affairs, celebrity interviews, radio plays, alternative comedy, live concerts and other events all created and produced in house. Programming hours increased from 12 hours

1938-566: The station ceased operations in 1932. Today, the WPSC call letters are assigned to William Paterson University . In an effort to reestablish the tradition of student radio at Penn State, WDFM went on the air on December 6, 1953 as a result of the Senior Gift of the Class of 1951. Headquarters in 304 Sparks on the University Park campus, WDFM served its student audience for more than three decades. It changed its call letters to WPSU-FM in 1985. From

1989-435: The station lost its ability to transmit over the radio dial and was forced to accept being heard infrequently on Penn State University's House and Food Services (HFS) Channel 21 on the on-campus cable television system. The last broadcast schedule was posted on the station's website in 2005. Since that time, with limited resources, finances and student interest, WEHR ceased to function. The last staff to operate East Halls radio

2040-488: The station's FCC License, held by the Penn State Board of Trustees for another eight-year term. Faculty adviser Robert Zimmerman died on Monday, January 15, 2007, due to an allergic reaction to medication. He was 73 years old. The LION 90.7fm continued to operate, but was financially jeopardized due to high operating expenses and limited income sources. Recent graduate and former WKPS officer Christopher Buchignani

2091-521: The station's website. In 2015, WPSC-FM received their first nomination for the prestigious NAB Marconi Award for Non-commercial station of the year. After another nomination in 2017, WPSC-FM won the notable award in 2018. In 2021, WPSC-FM won their second Marconi Award for College Radio Station of the Year. In 2022, WPSC-FM became nominated for Best College Radio Station in the Nation (over 10,000 students enrolled) by

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2142-526: The students, who were in favor of the current format, and the Communication Department, who wanted a more traditional college radio environment. An alternative and college rock format. Originally under the leadership of Ken Nagelburg, then Ron Stotyn. In the late 2000s, the format took on a Loud Rock and Punk lean, a significant change from the LaserHits! format the station flipped to in 1988. With

2193-460: The summer of 1993. The tightly programmed Hot Adult Contemporary format was to mimic a commercial station. Music rotation consisted of Top 30 hits from 1970-current with a heavy focus on local news, sports, and community affairs. Also known by the slogans "Your Constant Music Source," "North Jersey's Number One," and "The Spirit Of North Jersey." The format ended in June 1998 after a bitter battle between

2244-419: Was Evan Raffel as General Manager, Alex Kozak and Programming Director, Jack Greening as deejay, Michael Boyson as Treasurer and James Peters as Business Manager. East Halls radio facility was said to house potentially the largest student archive of vinyl on-campus. From 1995 until 2005, Penn State had two student-run radio stations. By 2005, only WKPS remained. Founded in the same year as WEHR, South Halls Radio

2295-459: Was a typical freeform radio station; its playlist depended on the deejay . Founded in 1972, WEHR originally broadcast from 10 Geary Hall, moving to 104 Johnston Commons sometime in the early 1980s. The station was set up to broadcast through the electric system in the dormitories of East Halls, via a carrier current, a system that failed miserably, so the station's main broadcast was through speakers into Johnston and Findlay commons. At some point,

2346-423: Was chartered as a student club under Penn State's Office of Student Affairs in order to avoid a fate similar to that of WDFM, which had been created as a subsidiary of the College of Communications. Though this move would prove problematic for the radio station in the future, it was ultimately heralded as the decision which would keep the station firmly within the students' grasp. Lacking in any professional oversight,

2397-408: Was designated the main studio, with additional offices, one of which would become The Lion's production room, allotted to the station on floor three. On October 1, 2003, the station went live from Room 9. Though the new station was smaller than the station to which the staff had become accustomed, it allowed for The LION 90.7fm to be physically independent. Live webcasts, added to the station's website

2448-581: Was hired for substantially less to replace Jeff Brown for one year. In the summer of 2003, the College of Communications, who leased the space in the James Building, forced The LION 90.7fm to evict. [Stanley Latta, Director of Unions & Student Activities under Penn State's office of Student Affairs, authorized the station's move to the Hetzel Union Building . Room 9, right next to the HUB's large aquarium,

2499-581: Was introduced to rotation, with early adds like Glass Animals , Phantogram , The 1975 , and Coast Modern . Following the station's win for Best College Radio Station (over 10,000 students enrolled) in March 2017, the station dropped "WP88.7" and "FM" from its branding, leaving just Brave New Radio. This shift was the first step in moving WPSC into the 21st century of media by making the brand more dynamic and fluid across all platforms, digital and FM. Throughout much of 2017, programming and music selection remained

2550-498: Was predominantly a Top 40 format. The oldest music in rotation reached back only through the mid 1970s with specialty and non-format programming running during late nights and weekends only. This format ran under the direction of John Kiernan and Drew Jacobs. A programming shift in October 1992, brought the station to a more Alternative lean, running a loose Alternative rock format under the direction of general manager Drew Jacobs through

2601-439: Was similarly inspired by WHR. Like its sister stations serving residence halls, it existed alongside WDFM, WHR, and WEHR to serve its student audience. A growing number of students in the early 1990s, having become aware of the lack of student broadcasting options on WPSU and disillusioned with their options, decided to give student radio another try. A small group, led by Jeff Ecker, asked the university to provide funding to begin

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