April 26, 1948

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April 26, 1948, 74 years ago today, WRSU begins broadcasting to Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ dorms on College Avenue Campus, and to the surrounding area. This makes it one of the oldest college stations in the country, and one of the few still on the air from that time period. They started as an AM station, converting fully to an FM station by 1976. Still broadcasting in the area today, tune in to 88.7 FM 24-7 to listen.

About Rutgers Radio - WRSU - The Voice of Rutgers

Founded in 1948, WRSU-FM is one of the oldest college radio stations in the nation. Since its inception as WRSU-AM, the station has evolved through many styles, including oldies, top 40, and its transition in the 1980s, to the variety of sounds it is renowned for today. WRSU on-air personalities...

radio.rutgers.edu

 

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Check out this site for the best researched history of a college radio station.

And that station is WRSU! - Articles, audio dlips, etc. chronilogically ordered by any decade since 1948:

WRSU Memories

www.wrsufm.com

 

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April 26, 1948, 75 years ago today, WRSU begins broadcasting to Rutgers U, New Brunswick, NJ dormitories on College Avenue Campus, and to the surrounding area of our City. This makes it one of the oldest college stations in the country, and one of the few still on the air from that time period. They started as an AM station, converting fully to an FM station by 1976. Still broadcasting in the area today, tune in to 88.7 FM 24-7 to listen. Happy birthday WRSU

https://radio.rutgers.edu/about/

 

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WCTC allowed WRSU to simulcast its football coverage in 1951 and WRSU broadcasted football with its own announcers in 1954. The AM closed carrier signal could only be heard in Rutgers dorms and buildings and moved to 680 AM in the early 1950s. They became WRSU 88.7 FM in 1974 and has been available on your radio dial ever since. "Knightline" began during the undefeated men's basketball season of 1975-76 and expanded to call ins with football beginning with the Rutgers-Penn State game to open the 1977 season.

 

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On June 10, 2023 at 6pm, WRSU will celebrate the 75th year of the radio station and, for the first time, inaugurate the WRSU Hall of Fame. Starting this year, WRSU will honor former student broadcaters from 1948 through today.

The first class to enter:

Matt Pinfield; Mark Chernoff '74; Steve Vericker, '81; Herb Sudzin (now in his 45th year of coutnry musics Saturdays 6-10am!); Roger Cohen '65; Harvey Hauptman '51 (WCBS Radio News and teameds with Tony Marano in the 1950s for RU Football).

Future years will honor students from different years and decades.

 

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