Friday, February 8th, 2013 // Blogs,Events,MMW,News
That’s right… it’s that time of year again! Massive Music Weekend will be taking place from 12 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17. That’s 60 hours of your favorite DJs playing their favorite artists in half-hour blocks.
Check out the Facebook event for more details on MMW:
The official MMW schedule will be posted here in the next few days, so stay tuned. In the mean time, be sure to follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the latest MMW and WRCT news.
More photos from our poster screen-printing day can be viewed on our Flickr. Thanks to everyone who helped out!
Monday, January 21st, 2013 // Events,News
Once again, it’s time again once more for a new schedule! Yes, here to help keep you warm through the coldest of nights is the WRCT Spring Schedule. We’ve got plenty of the old, the new, and the remade to keep you entertained as you wait for the winter to be over.
We have a new metal show taking over Saturday nights (with “Too Evil” moving to Sunday nights) and a handful of old DJs are making a return to the airwaves (specifically DJ Phinesse, Taste Sensation, DJ Accent, and D-RON).
If you’re looking for some of your favorite shows, check around, they probably just got moved to a different time. But fear not, because many long standing crowd favorites have stayed in place: You can still get your weekly dose of Zombo on Fridays, you can dance your couch to pieces Wednesdays, “Radio 9” and the “ReRewind” still entertain Saturday afternoons, and the Rock Blocksters maintain their hold on Thursday afternoons (though, sadly, “Bridge City Dreamer” is taking a few months off).
I personally guarantee that you will find something listen to on WRCT this semester. And be sure to check back frequently, since we’ll be adding more shows as the semester progresses!
-Ryan, Program Director
Monday, December 24th, 2012 // Events,News
Get out your platform shoes and your Roberta Flack records. Despite popular demand, WRCT-FM (88.3) will once again return to the golden age of glorious AM monophonic sound this Dec. 31 and flashback the final day of 1972.
Yep. It’s that time again.
In a much-tolerated New Year’s radio tradition dating back a decade, WRCT’s resident oldies guru, Jay Thurber, will again roll back the clock 40 years. This year’s broadcast will air from 12 to 3 p.m. and will also be available online at www.wrct.org.
On Dec. 31, WRCT’s time-traveling Plymouth Valiant Scamp will rev up its slant-six flux capacitor to 88.3 MPH and head for Carnegie
Mellon’s old student union, Skibo Hall, in the era when the station was still at 900 kHz AM.
Kindly Uncle Jay, who hosts an oldies program on WRCT on Saturday afternoons (www.jaythurbershow.com), will count down the top songs of 1972, interspersed with news reports, commercials and other announcements from the era when the Pirates, not the Steelers, were the “champions” of the Steel City.
The “number one song of 1972” will be unveiled at 3 p.m.
Past broadcasts aired from 9 p.m. to midnight on New Year’s Eve. Thurber claims this year’s earlier broadcast is designed to make it
easier for people to listen — though station sources claim he moved the show to an earlier time slot because his increasing decrepitude is making it harder for him to stay up past 9:30.
