WTXR
Encyclopedia
WTXR is the student-run campus radio
station of Toccoa Falls College
in Toccoa, Georgia
. The radio station plays predominantly Christian rock
and Contemporary Christian music
but also features various specialty shows. It is a companion to sister WRAF, run by the college itself.
TFC students fill rolls such as radio station manager and program director, with tenures generally beginning at the beginning of the student's junior or senior year and ending with graduation. Though upperclassmen typically hold the role of radio station manager and program director, almost any student can be a disc jockey
if approved by the station manager. This allows for great diversity in the material that is broadcasted.
WTXR's current faculty advisor is Curt Wanner and the station manager is Craig Salmon, a communications student at TFC.
History
The station is housed in the Recital Hall, also known as Bandy Hall, on the back side. It is located in what used to be the original WRAF studios. When the time came to pick the call letters for the station it was known as "The Crossroads", which can be seen when looking at the call letters, W-TXR. Steve Dendrinos was the original faculty member to oversee this installation of the new student station.
WTXR has always been a student run radio station from every perspective and this makes for diverse and often very humorous shows. The students chose to change the to "The Eagle" or "Eagle 89", moving away from the moniker of The Crossroads. This allowed The Eagle 89 to move away from WRAF and focus on a more youthful crowd and not compete with it. Under the guidance of Jeremy Duke, the station bridged the programming demographic to the 18-24 age bracket and it targeted a pocket that was not being attended to in the Toccoa area.
Another notable student was Nate "Trendy Nate" Becker. Trendy Nate broadened the programming and allowed for a more fluid song rotation which allowed it to become more respected in Northeast Georgia
. Nate and Dendrinos departed, making way for Stephen and Josh Altmanshofer to market the station as "Toccoa's Youth Station".
Some of the longest running shows of the Eagle included Dr. Everitt's show, featuring Bob Dylan
classics. There was also the ChappyHour, which ran for 3.5 years on Sunday nights, and the Indie-Spam-Pit. The ISP collectively started as three individual shows. Spam was led by Spanky Willard and contained music of all sorts. The Indie show was fronted by Christopher 'The Dictator' Dentel, and was entirely Indie music, and the Pit was Josh Altmanshofer featuring hard core music. The three combined to create one of the most eclectic shows in the station's history, and took up the 10-12pm Sunday night slot starting in 2001 and lasted for a couple years.
Another very successful show, titled IndieAccess, was fronted by Desh and his wife. Although not students at all, they were locals within the community who wanted to get involved and loved the vision of the station. Thursday nights brought forth the most successful Indie show, which featured Indie acts from all over the world. This was an amazing feat, as it really showed the impact the station had, and their knowledge of social networking (before it was huge thing), IndieAccess helped bring in listeners from literally all over the world, to the Eagle 89.
WTXR currently stands as the only student run station at TFC and airs music 24/7 with student shows on a weekly schedule.
Campus radio
Campus radio is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively by students, or may include programmers from the wider community in which the radio station is based...
station of Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls College is a fully accredited, Christian liberal arts, bible college, located in Toccoa, Georgia, on the edge of the Piedmont region and in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The campus occupies , bordering the Chattahoochee National Forest and is home to Toccoa Falls a high...
in Toccoa, Georgia
Toccoa, Georgia
Toccoa is a city in Stephens County, Georgia, United States located approximately from Athens and approximately northeast of Atlanta. The population was 9,323 at the 2000 census...
. The radio station plays predominantly Christian rock
Christian rock
Christian rock is a form of rock music played by individuals and bands whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands...
and Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
but also features various specialty shows. It is a companion to sister WRAF, run by the college itself.
TFC students fill rolls such as radio station manager and program director, with tenures generally beginning at the beginning of the student's junior or senior year and ending with graduation. Though upperclassmen typically hold the role of radio station manager and program director, almost any student can be a disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
if approved by the station manager. This allows for great diversity in the material that is broadcasted.
WTXR's current faculty advisor is Curt Wanner and the station manager is Craig Salmon, a communications student at TFC.
History
The station is housed in the Recital Hall, also known as Bandy Hall, on the back side. It is located in what used to be the original WRAF studios. When the time came to pick the call letters for the station it was known as "The Crossroads", which can be seen when looking at the call letters, W-TXR. Steve Dendrinos was the original faculty member to oversee this installation of the new student station.
WTXR has always been a student run radio station from every perspective and this makes for diverse and often very humorous shows. The students chose to change the to "The Eagle" or "Eagle 89", moving away from the moniker of The Crossroads. This allowed The Eagle 89 to move away from WRAF and focus on a more youthful crowd and not compete with it. Under the guidance of Jeremy Duke, the station bridged the programming demographic to the 18-24 age bracket and it targeted a pocket that was not being attended to in the Toccoa area.
Another notable student was Nate "Trendy Nate" Becker. Trendy Nate broadened the programming and allowed for a more fluid song rotation which allowed it to become more respected in Northeast Georgia
Northeast Georgia
Northeast Georgia is a region of the Georgia in the United States. The northern part is also in the north Georgia mountains, while the southern part is still hilly but much flatter in topography....
. Nate and Dendrinos departed, making way for Stephen and Josh Altmanshofer to market the station as "Toccoa's Youth Station".
Some of the longest running shows of the Eagle included Dr. Everitt's show, featuring Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
classics. There was also the ChappyHour, which ran for 3.5 years on Sunday nights, and the Indie-Spam-Pit. The ISP collectively started as three individual shows. Spam was led by Spanky Willard and contained music of all sorts. The Indie show was fronted by Christopher 'The Dictator' Dentel, and was entirely Indie music, and the Pit was Josh Altmanshofer featuring hard core music. The three combined to create one of the most eclectic shows in the station's history, and took up the 10-12pm Sunday night slot starting in 2001 and lasted for a couple years.
Another very successful show, titled IndieAccess, was fronted by Desh and his wife. Although not students at all, they were locals within the community who wanted to get involved and loved the vision of the station. Thursday nights brought forth the most successful Indie show, which featured Indie acts from all over the world. This was an amazing feat, as it really showed the impact the station had, and their knowledge of social networking (before it was huge thing), IndieAccess helped bring in listeners from literally all over the world, to the Eagle 89.
WTXR currently stands as the only student run station at TFC and airs music 24/7 with student shows on a weekly schedule.