Jennifer Waits

Radio Station Visit #180: WZLY-FM at Wellesley College - Radio Survivor “Walk to the front between the two large turrets!” read the text message from WZLY historian Berit Raines, directing me to the entrance of Billings Hall, a gothic 1904 building that is home to the Wel...

I was psyched to finally get to visit Wellesley College radio station WZLY. What a history! It began as carrier current station WBS in 1942 and went FM in the 1970s. At 83 years old, it is most likely the longest running women's college radio station in the U.S. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radi...

Thanks to WBRS-FM at Brandeis University for the fun tour last week. College radio is alive and well!

“A Long, Strange Trip”: An Engineer’s Journey Through FM College Radio Ferdinand “Freddie” Montalvo on the Binghamton community airwaves in the 1980s and in the 2020s. Images courtesy of Montalvo. Today is World College Radio Day, and it’s more impor…

Keeping the college radio positivity going...Here's a great read from Sounding Out!

In honor of College Radio Day, they shared "a special post devoted to the intergenerational relationships that power college radio and keep it lit." soundstudiesblog.com/2025/10/03/a...

Especially in light of the shutdown of @wcsb.bsky.social yesterday, it's important to know that college radio IS thriving and plays a vital role in many students' lives. Thanks to @emwhitenoise.bsky.social for this great piece that takes a closer look at why Gen Z is excited about college radio.

Sad situation at Cleveland State

clevelandstater.com/news/news/cs...

Glad that the majority of college stations do stream online!

What a cruel thing to take a college radio station off the air on College Radio Day...

For #CollegeRadioDay, here's an update about the 9000+ item college radio collection that I curate within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org

Love to College Radio on College Radio Day 2025 - Radio Survivor Over the years there have been so many reports about the ebb and flow of college radio and I’ve tried my best to not feed into narratives of decline. With that in mind, I was pleased to read a piece t...

Happy College Radio Day! College radio inspires me every day of the year. I share some words on @radiosurvivor.bsky.social

www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/love...

Latest episode of Radio Survivor show/podcast @radiosurvivor.bsky.social couldn't be more timely, as we discuss the FCC and recent challenges to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez was the keynote speaker at the Grassroots Radio Conference and we share our report!

Logo of the Spokane 2025 Grassroots Radio Conference, September 11–14, 2025.

🎙 College & community radio have shaped generations. Jennifer Waits, Curator of the #InternetArchive's DLARC College Radio Collection, speaks on SAVING COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY at GRC 2025.

🕚 Sept 12, 11:15 AM
📍 Spokane, WA
📅 Details ➡️ grc2025.com

@spinningindie.bsky.social

Podcast cover for Episode #7 of "Future Knowledge" titled "In Through the Side Door." The design features a portrait of a woman with glasses and wavy blonde hair (likely Lila Bailey), along with collage-style imagery including a vintage computer labeled "NEW," a classical statue head, modernist buildings, and a stylized observation tower. Guests listed, along with their photographs, are Erin Malone and Abby Covert. Bold typography and retro-futuristic visuals create a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

In the latest Future Knowledge #podcast, IN THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR, author & UI designer @ErinMalone.bsky.social joins designer Abby Covert to spotlight the women who shaped UX, from the dawn of desktop computing to today.

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/in-...

2026 "Best College Radio Stations" List from Princeton Review - Radio Survivor The annual Princeton Review “Best College Radio Stations” list is here, just in time for the 2025-2026 academic year. Appearing within The Best 391 Colleges – 2026 edition, the “best college radio sta...

Per tradition, I dig into the latest "Best College Radio Station" list from Princeton Review. Psyched to see a handful of brand new entrants to the list: Washington and Lee University, Rollins College, John Carroll University and University of Portland. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/08/2026...

Records & Radio | When baseball ruled the dial Once upon a time, the marriage between baseball and radio enabled franchises to create an unbreakable bond with their fans.

Nice to see this deep cut reference to a @radiosurvivor.bsky.social piece about baseball on the radio. www.news-gazette.com/arts-enterta...

Thanks!! This is great!

Make that WEDNESDAY, June 18th!

Looking forward to connecting with campus and community radio folks in Canada this week! I'll be speaking about radio history and preservation and my work with @archive.org @dlarc.bsky.social on Tuesday June 18. PLUS, I'll be on hand for a screening of @35000watts.com that night.

🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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Need to relax? The Internet Archive is livestreaming microfiche scans to a lo-fi beats soundtrack The archive helps make millions of newspaper, court, and government records publicly available to researchers. Now you can watch the magic happen.

Need to relax? The Internet Archive is livestreaming microfiche scans to a lo-fi beats soundtrack

www.fastcompany.com/91340395/int...

lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to YouTube video by Internet Archive

📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing.

The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library.

Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress.

🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays)
➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the
@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.

Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.

Sign up at the BEA website:
bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login

Here's the moment that 1000+ participants in @neal.fun's Internet Roadtrip finally reached the studios of WBOR, the student-run college radio station that they've been listening to (and interacting with) all week while traveling at a snail's pace through Maine.

Cool grant opportunity if you've got audio archives!

Podcast #343 - Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age - Radio Survivor While the work of radio stations using terrestrial transmitters is a typical discussion topic on Radio Survivor, for this episode we find ourselves examining music and talk beamed down from satellites...

Satellite radio is the topic of our latest @radiosurvivor.bsky.social radio show/podcast episode! Thanks to @brianfauteux.bsky.social for schooling us about the history of satellite radio and its connections with the music industry. www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/05/podc...

Welcome to the public domain, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the surrealist short from Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí that shocked cinema with dream logic, stark imagery & one gruesome eyeball.

More. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/w...

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive

Dr. Carla Hayden talks with Brewster Kahle at the San Francisco Public Library.

Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers.

Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.

Common Frequency Is a Fierce Radio Activist - Radio World CF is an activist group that assists noncom and LPFM broadcasters, community groups, educational institutions and other nonprofits with radio opportunities.

Hooray for the important work of Common Frequency, supporting new community and college radio stations. Some great quotes from Todd Urick in this @radioworld.bsky.social piece. www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

YouTube video by BBC News Can the Internet Archive save our digital history? | BBC News

📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine.

“A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish.

🔗 Explore: web.archive.org
🎥 Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k

Stranger Things: The First Shadow - On Broadway - Broadway.org - Presented by The Broadway League Based on the Netflix series, this play takes you back to the beginnings of the Stranger Things story: Hawkins, 1959, before the world turned upside down.

Unsure! But it sounds like there’s a broadcast radio reference too maybe?

www.broadway.org/shows/strang...

OK… I’m intrigued. Radio cameo in the Stranger Things musical on Broadway per this photo in a @wsj.com review.