25 Facts About Campus radio

Campus radio is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution.

Sometimes campus radio stations are operated for the purpose of training professional radio personnel, sometimes with the aim of broadcasting educational programming, while other radio stations exist to provide alternative to commercial broadcasting or government broadcasters.

Campus radio stations are generally licensed and regulated by national governments, and have very different characteristics from one country to the next.

One commonality between many Campus radio stations regardless of their physical location is a willingness—or, in some countries, even a licensing requirement—to broadcast musical selections that are not categorized as commercial hits.

Many campus radio stations carry a variety of programming including news, sports, and spoken word programming as well as general music.

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Some Campus radio stations have gained critical acclaim for their programming and are considered by the community in which they are embedded to be an essential media outlet.

Some Campus radio stations are distributed through the cable television system on cable FM or the second audio program of a TV Campus radio station.

SUSTcast is the campus radio station made for Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

In Canada, radio stations are regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which provides that "a campus radio station is a radio station owned or controlled by a not-for-profit organization associated with a post-secondary educational institution".

Campus radio stations broadcasting at full power are assigned a permanent frequency and call letters and, aside from a requirement not to compete directly with commercial radio stations, are full players in the Canadian broadcasting spectrum.

Canada's oldest community-based campus radio station is CFRC at Queen's University in Kingston, which has been on the air since 1923; it began as a commercial radio station and a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation affiliate, but became the country's first university-owned station in 1942 and fully transitioned to a campus radio station in 1957.

Radio Campus France is a national, non-profit radio broadcasting network grouping 22 public college radio stations located in the largest French cities.

Not just a collection of disparate elements, Radio Campus is a vocal leader in the areas of digital broadcasting, keeping tabs on the development of terrestrial radio, as well as developing new network interfaces for radio stations across the nation to share content.

Similarly a community based Campus radio programme titled Panchayat Vani was recently broadcast on All India Radio, Darbhanga, Bihar.

Campus radio exists in Israel, where several colleges, universities and high schools have successful programs.

Student Campus radio has been broadcast in Sweden since the beginning of 1980.

Radio Campus Tunis is a non-profit Student radio station powered by Disk Red Association.

Some student Campus radio stations operate on the FM waveband for short periods at a time under the Restricted Service Licence scheme, while others choose to broadcast full-time on the AM waveband using an LPAM licence.

College Campus radio became commonplace in the 1960s when the Federal Communications Commission began issuing class D licenses for ten-watt Campus radio stations to further the development of the then new FM band.

College Campus radio returned to Rollins College when the FM Campus radio station, WPRK began broadcasting on 10 December 1952.

Still, due to strict class D regulations, some Campus radio stations were prohibited from a wattage upgrade for possible signal interference with adjacent Campus radio stations, such as KWUR 90.

The National Association of Broadcasters and the newly founded National Public Radio convinced the FCC that local low-power Campus radio stations were somehow detrimental to broadcasting, and class D licenses were no longer issued for applications made after 1979, except for broadcast translators to repeat NAB and NPR members' Campus radio stations.

Many Campus radio stations were forced to upgrade their facilities at considerable expense.

Many other Campus radio stations were eventually forced off the air, because they could not afford the upgrades at all, or not in time to avoid being locked in by other expanding Campus radio stations.

Some Campus radio stations have had student programming taken off the air by the administration in favor of other uses, such as WWGC and KTXT.

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