WPIR is on the air


by Jay Heminger - WPIR Business Manager

Would you like to be involved in one of the newest and most exciting student organizations on campus? Then join us at WPIR. WPIR is WPI's student run campus radio station. WPIR began broadcasting this past February and is eager for the future. The future begins with you, the class of '99. We are looking for anybody who wants to help out and have a lot of fun. Besides the obvious DJ role, we have technical, news, personnel, business, programming, and secretarial staffs.

WPIR first began broadcasting this past February on WPI Cable Channel 38. It was kind of weird because you had to watch TV (a cool clock and thermometer) to listen to us. That all changed this past May when we began broadcasting over WPI Cable 90.1 FM. Let me 'splain. Your cable company not only gives you Cable TV channels, but also has an FM radio signal which it sends. With an FM splitter, you can get the TV stuff into the TV, and get the radio stuff (like 90.1 FM) on your radio. As of now, 90.1 FM on WPI Cable is the ONLY way to listen to us. Plans for the future include actual broadcasting over the airwaves.

WPIR will be at the activities fair on the Quad Wednesday, from 2:30-4:00. If you want to get involved, or just hang out and find out about us, come on down. We will also be selling FM splitters ($2) and offering E-Z installation instructions.

For more information, or if you have any further questions, feel free to email us at radio@wpi, stop by the studio, call us at 5955/5956, or check out our World Wide Web page. You can access it through . We are located in the basement of Fuller Labs (the building with the huge stairway and cool lecture hall). To find us, go down the staircase and hang a left. Keep walking and you will hit a door (doh!, that hurt)...don't forget to open the door, that is our office.

Hope to see you all at the activities fair!


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