WRCT: a radio station

It’s that time of year again — Spring Carnival has come to CMU’s campus!  As we’ve done for longer than we can remember, WRCT will once again be covering the Buggy / Sweepstakes races this weekend.  Our coverage this year comes to you in cooperation with cmuTV and the CMU Buggy Alumni Association.  If you’re coming to watch the races, remember to bring a portable radio and listen in!

Live coverage of the races will air on 88.3 MHz for listeners on the Buggy course and in the Pittsburgh area, as well as streaming live at wrct.org.  Coverage begins 8am Friday and Saturday morning, barring any technical difficulties.  Regularly-scheduled programming will be pre-empted during this broadcast.

Listeners tuning in to hear the Saturday Light Brigade this Saturday can find a list of SLB affiliate stations and live online streaming at slbradio.org.

Hello radio fans,

So those of you that tried to access our webstream in the last 24 hours were probably terribly disappointed to find that it wasn’t working. Well, it turns out that we had a hardware failure on the computer that serves the streams. That computer is now running again, but for reasons not fully known, the webstreams now sound like they’re being fed through a telephone. The astute WRCT listener may be surprised to find out that this isn’t intentional.

It’s not.

No, seriously, it’s not.

Anyway, we’re working on making the streams normal-sounding again, so please bear with us while we hack away at obscure Linux audio drivers. In the meantime, try to enjoy the unintentionally experimental twist on our normal programming. It’s like we’re on AM radio!

Spring Break has arrived at CMU, which means that our students are off to exotic locales, vying to appear on the next Girls Gone Wild: Cancun video or something.

What this means for you, fair listener, is that a lot of our shows are off for the week, which puts us into Random Schedule through Sunday night.  Tune in often, though, since many of our DJs relish the chance to hop on the air for a substitute show when the youngins are out of town!