Spring Schedule is here

January 29, 2025 // News

Our Spring 2025 Schedule is live! Click on the SCHEDULE link in our website’s header to see the Spring 2025 schedule.

WRCT’s student and community volunteers always provide you with the intelligent, energetic, and diverse programming you’ve come to associate with WRCT. Some of your favorite shows may have moved to new time slots; and lots of new shows are on the schedule — including three new public affairs shows! Tune in to WRCT to discover some new favorite shows!

Whether they’re live in the studios or broadcasting from their home studios, WRCT student and community volunteers produce Pittsburgh’s best variety of music and public affairs programming — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on 88.3 FM, Pittsburgh, or streaming from this very website!


Not Just Hip; But Tragically Hip!

January 13, 2025 // Interviews, News

Thursday night January 16, get Hip with your Rockin’ Attorney Eric Jackson Lurie when he is joined on air by Tragically Hip original drummer, Johnny Fay!

The Tragically Hip are one of the most popular bands to ever come from Canada. They are the fourth best selling band in Canadian history with nine #1 albums on the Canadian charts over their 33 year tenure. The Hip are currently being featured on Amazon Prime in a documentary about their final days as a band and the devastating passing of their lead singer, Gord Downey. Johnny Fay will be talking about the band’s history, the new deluxe re-issue of their album Up To Here and their latest single pulled from their archives.

Love the Tragically Hip? Well, make sure you tune in Thursday January 16 at 8 p.m., or for the replay Sunday January 19 at 10 p.m., right here on WRCT 88.3 FM Pittsburgh or streaming at wrct.org.


Film in America

January 7, 2025 // Forbes Avenue

We sat down with David Shumway, a Professor of English here at CMU, and talked all about movies!

Professor Shumway discussed current trends, what makes American film unique, and the role of music in movies among many other topics. Tune in if you need recommendations of what to watch or want to hear why you should watch movies multiple times! It was an interesting interview about a fun topic.

Listen to the interview: David Shumway

Archan Das, host, researcher, audio engineer
Riona Duncan, audio editor
Recorded November 18, 2024; WRCT debut January 7, 2025


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