WVUD
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WVUD is a radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

  broadcasting a campus radio
Campus radio
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  format. Licensed to Newark, Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Newark is an American city in New Castle County, Delaware, west-southwest of Wilmington. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the city is 31,454. Newark is the home of the University of Delaware.- History :...

, USA, the station serves the Wilmington, DE area. The station is currently owned by University of Delaware. The station has obtained a construction permit from the FCC for a power increase to 6,800 watts. This student run radio station is located in the Perkins student center at the University of Delaware
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...

. The transmitting antenna is located on the top of the Christiana East Tower residence building.

History

University of Delaware
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...

 Radio was broadcast by AM Carrier Current
Carrier current
Carrier current is a method of low power AM radio transmission that uses the AC electrical system of a building to propagate a medium frequency, AM signal to a relatively small area, such as a building or a group of buildings...

 at 640 kHz from 1968 until 1976. First with the call letters WHEN as a top 40 station broadcasting from East Hall. When the station moved to the third floor of the Perkins Student center the station changed to WDRB, an alternative rock
Alternative rock
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 station. In 1976 the station was issued a Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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 (FCC) Class D
Class D
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 non-commercial educational license for 10 Watts under callsign WXDR and broadcast a block format that included jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, college alternative, and experimental music
Experimental music
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. Local news was presented each day and the students presented a weekly news magazine show and community oriented public affairs
Public affairs (broadcasting)
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 shows. In 1983 WXDR increased its power to 1000 Watts and moved to the lower level of the Perkins Student Center Annex building. University President David Roselle
David Roselle
David Paul Roselle is an American mathematician and academic administrator who served as the ninth President of the University of Kentucky and the 25th President of the University of Delaware.-Early life and family:...

 requested that the call letters be changed to WVUD to reflect the station's university basis. These call letters had recently been given up by the University of Dayton
University of Dayton
The University of Dayton is a private Roman Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio...

 student radio station.

Programming

  • Hip City (Saturday night) A fixture featuring classic soul and rhythm & blues
    Rhythm and blues
    Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

     as presented by Jerry Grant.
  • Red, Hot & Blue (Friday night) Featuring blues hosted by Ron Smith.
  • Crazy College (Sundays) Featuring "all musics odd, silly or forgotten. Anything from Stan Freeberg
    Stan Freberg
    Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director whose career began in 1944...

    , Allan Sherman
    Allan Sherman
    Allan Sherman was an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer , became the fastest-selling record album up to that time...

    , Billy Murray
    Billy Murray (singer)
    William Thomas "Billy" Murray was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century...

    , Cole Porter
    Cole Porter
    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

    , George Formby, if it's odd or funny, it's in!" hosted by Geo. Stewart.
  • Java Time & Roots (Weekday mornings) features Roots and Folk music
    Folk music
    Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

    .
  • Classical music
    Classical music
    Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

     (Weekdays at lunchtime)
  • Scratchy Grooves & In a Mist (Sunday nights) Big Band
    Big band
    A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

     and popular music of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
  • Ruffage (Saturdays) Delaware's longest running and only Heavy Metal/Hard Rock radio show. Beginning over 21 years ago, the show was originally hosted by Rich Grafstein (its originator) and has since been hosted by Traci, Metallikate, The Tink, Josh and Stefanie Best, among others. Currently the show is being once again hosted by Metallikate and Traci.
  • Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: live radio play (Annual live radio broadcast of Charles Dickens' classic holiday ghost story.) A Delaware tradition since 2004. Performed by a small cast of professional actors, featuring music and sound effects. Directed by Sara Valentine. Scripted and created by Sara Valentine and Michael Boudewyns.

Special programs

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: a live radio broadcast (7th annual live broadcast
Live radio
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)

Date: December 20, 2010

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Description: The 7th annual live radio-theater performance of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Performed by a small cast of professional actors, with music and sound effects. Broadcast live from the studios of the WVUD. A Really Inventive Radio production.
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