You walk out of your house and into your office or class every day. You see the same walls, floors, ceiling, lights, and windows every day. The mundanity of life can lead to an overall regression in brain processes. This is my office. The desk on the right is mine. There are CDs everywhere. I am the music director of the radio station. I have to listen to tons of CDs every week to update the playlists that U92 has.
This is the radio station that is in the Mountainlair beside the Gluck Theater. It's a little hidden away corner that I have spent most of life days at WVU. Late night shifts, early mornings, long days, all have been here.
The posters and stickers you see on the walls have been accumlated for almost 30 years. The radio station started in 1982. Do you even listen to radio anymore? I do. And I'm a voice behind the microphone. One of many.
U92 represents an underground part of the radio industry, a dying industry at that. U92 will play bands that usually wont get airplay on popular corporate stations. I have an endless amount of people begging me to play their music. And of course you can't please everybody.
Unlike most radio stations, we do not ahve a computer sytem yet. All of our music is either played by CD, Vinyl (yes we have records), or a plug in we have to use our iPods in.
We have our extremely dusty transmitter emitting a signal to a tower on the hill behind Arnold Hall. The range for our towers on a good day is about thiry miles outside of the city.
Our DJs are a combination of students and community volunteers.
You can listen to the station live at U92.wvu.edu anywhere in the world thanks to that new thing called the Internet.
