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WCBN-FM

WCBN-FM is the student-run radio station of the University of Michigan. Its format is primarily freeform. It broadcasts at 88.3 MHz FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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88.3 MHz

WCBN FM

Freeform

University of Michigan

January 23, 1972
(originally carrier current 1952-1972)

none

Campus Broadcasting Network

66316

A

1,400 watts

54 meters

42°16′37″N 83°44′7″W / 42.27694°N 83.73528°W / 42.27694; -83.73528

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wcbn.org

In addition to its FM broadcast, WCBN can be heard via the at wcbn.org.

Internet

WCBN Sports runs a YouTube channel, through which it broadcasts live athletics events.

The University of Michigan also operates the station WUOM-FM, which is run as a service to the community and does not directly involve students in its operation.

NPR

general manager of the longest continuously-operating freeform radio station, WFMU-FM, worked at WCBN from 1977 to 1983 and was the DJ who marked the election of Ronald Reagan by playing Lesley Gore's "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To) continuously for 18 hours.[3]

Ken Freedman

Author DJ'd at WCBN while attending the University of Michigan.

Mary Gaitskill

hosted a Jazz program named "Re:Visions" in the late 1970s.

John Sinclair (poet)

was weather girl at WCBN from 1965 to 1966.

Gilda Radner

In the past, WCBN has broadcast locally and nationally produced news and issues programming, such as nationally-produced 's CounterSpin, and Free Speech Radio News (who has since stopped broadcasting full news segments), as well as Dave Emory's commentary show For the Record. The locally-produced LGBT issues program Closets R4 Clothes had aired since 1975.

FAIR

The WCBN News Department was revitalized beginning in 2004, when a group of students converged to conduct live coverage of the presidential elections. Out of this grew a more long-term project called BlackBox Radio, which produced over 50 episodes of its weekly show. BlackBox radio stopped production in 2006.

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WCBN's alumni include (reporter for KTRK-TV, Houston, Texas), Fanchon Stinger (former morning anchorwoman at WJBK-TV), Beth Fertig (education reporter for WNYC, New York), Kevin West (program & news director for WGOW-AM-FM in Chattanooga, Tennessee) and Pat Batcheller (host/senior news editor for WDET in Detroit).

Ted Oberg

Michiguide.com - WCBN-FM History

in the FCC FM station database

WCBN

in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

WCBN

on LocalWiki

WCBN

on LocalWiki

Bill Monroe for Breakfast