WRCR/Rockford College Radio -- 2010s History
This history of WRCR was compiled from Rockford College newspaper articles, primarily the Collegian; recollections of students involved with WRCR, and messages posted on the WRCR list serve. This history was compiled by Ross Hunter '71and edited by Cece Forrester '72. Click a link above to visit other decades. In reviewing the old newspaper clippings there are two themes that surfaced every couple of years from the beginning of WRCR to its end in 1994: the hum caused by carrier current broadcasting and the hope of FM broadcasting. Student engineers over the years made great strides in overcoming the hum, but that FM dream was never realized.
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2011
January 21, 2011, WRCR returned in the form of an internet radio stream called Rockford College Radio. The station is back in the lower Burpee Center studios originally occupied in the Fall of 1970. There are numerous pictures in the RCR 6.0 gallery and the 2011 Reunion gallery.
