WCWP (88.1
FM) is a
student-run radio station
licensed to and owned by
Long Island University
Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long I ...
. The station, located on the university's
LIU Post
LIU Post, formally the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to as C.W. Post, is a private university in Brookville, New York, on Long Island. It is part of Long Island University (LIU), and the largest school in the ...
campus in
Brookville, New York, broadcasts a variety of music programs, branding itself as "Public Radio that Rocks!" Broadcasting with an
effective radiated power
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of 100 watts, the station serves the northern
Nassau County, New York
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area.
History
In the spring of 1960, S. Arthur Beltrone '63 and theatre arts professor Virgil Jackson Lee founded WCWP as a
closed-circuit radio
A closed-circuit radio is a radio that emits over a very small range, typically a college campus. This system can be achieved from two ways:
*By tying into the PA System
*By using existing power lines, telephones lines, pipes, etc. to transmit a c ...
station. The Radio Club of C.W. Post College was initiated at this time. WCWP first went on the air at noon on October 18, 1961. Two years later, plans were made to extend the station's reach through a
non-commercial
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, educational
FM station. In January 1965, WCWP acquired new facilities, which were named after
Benjamin Abrams.
On November 30, 1970,
Dean Julian Mates ordered WCWP to be closed down "to protect our station license" after obscenities were broadcast. The shutdown came at the end of the station's regular program schedule that day.
See also
*
College radio
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*
List of college radio stations in the United States
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References
External links
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1961 establishments in New York (state)
CWP
Long Island University
Mass media in Nassau County, New York
Radio stations established in 1961
CWP
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