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Issues relating to United States history section
The article states that "College Radio" began in the 1960s. The article may be refering to low powered or carrier current stations. If this is the case, the title is misleading and should be changed. College radio had its beginnings long before the 1960s. It does state that "a small handful got licenses in the range of tens of of thousands" which makes me believe we are supposed to be talking about all college radio stations.

A few examples: University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT. Boston University in Boston, MA. (WBUR was on the air several years before I became very familiar with it in 1955. It was a student operated station until NPR came along.  Now it is a primary source of NPR  programming.)  Emerson College (Jay Leno's alma mater), also in Boston, had WERS before 1955. WGBH (FM) was also on the air prior to 1955. WGBH (FM and TV) was owned by a consortium of colleges, including Boston University and the other leading colleges and universities in Boston. I believe there were 13 of them which participated in WGBH. I regret that I do not have the dates these stations first went on the air.

These stations were not carrier-current or 10 watters. WBUR operated with 20,000 ERP. I beleive WGBH was of a similar high power. That made WBUR a maximum power station because at the time, stations in New England (and west through Wisconsin) could have a power no higher than 20kw. During the late 1950s, Boston University did initiate WTBS as a carrier current station. Also, another college station came on the air from Harvard.

Another interesting note that might be added to this article. One of the first, if not the first, stereo bradcast was transmitted on WBUR and WGBH. One station had the left side, the other the right side. This included stereo microphones for the two announcers, one from each station. Music came from stereo tapes. I was there to see it happen. I only wish that I had had the exact date, as well as the event, seared into my memory. It was originated at the new (in 1957) WBUR studio. I would estimate that the most likely year would have been 1958. I do not know how the one channel was delivered to WGBH. It was likely telephone line. WBUR didn't have an STL (studio to transmitter link) problem as the huge transmitter was located in the next room.

Notability
Those interested in this topic may want to look at the new suggested guidelines for inclusion of radio and television stations in Wikipedia. The project is still in its earliest stages. Broadcasting notability
 * NB this guideline is now considered historical cmh 16:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Page Title
This article suffers from a US focus in the preliminaries that then leads to "unlike the US" for all the countries listed. I am going to reorg this page a bit right now, moving the common information to the top, and moving US related material into the US section. I really think this article should be under the title of Campus Radio and not College Radio as the US use of the word College is kind of unique. I would like to hear from people in other countries about whether you call it College radio there. cmh 04:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * If there is no debate I will rename this page to Campus radio. cmh 05:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Inserting this comment to ping watchlists. Barring any debate I will shortly move. cmh 05:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It has now been one week. I am moving the page. cmh 15:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, page is moved. Double redirects that were created have been cleaned up. Over time I will be going through the pages that link here to change the links to point directly at this page. cmh 15:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Why this is a problem
An issue has come up at Fusion Radio about whether we should consider Internet Radio stations originating from a university campus to be campus radio stations. My first take on this is to say no, for the following reasons:
 * There is a clear phenomenon to be discussed here in the form of traditional campus radio which has a clear definition (through enabling legislation in countries, and generally through official relationships with the campuses in question) and a clear history.
 * Just because internet "stations" call themselves "radio" does not make them radio. An internet streaming audio feed is commonly called an "Internet Radio Station" by analogy; analogy does not truly mean these are "radio stations" proper. Therefore, just as Internet Radio is separate from Radio, so should "Campus Internet Radio" be a topic in its own right, and not mixed in with campus radio.
 * I do not question that some internet radio stations adopt a campus radio format. And perhaps that should be added as an article to Category:Radio formats. But sharing a format doesn't make them the same thing either.
 * There is a problem with the potential proliferation of Internet Campus Radio stations. What if the University of Foo's engineering society decided to open a series of internet radio channels. Would they all qualify as "campus radio stations"? Would they all qualify for the List of campus radio stations? What about internet feeds maintained for 5 years from the dorm room of a student? Is this too a "Campus Radio Station?" By sticking to "Campus Radio means Traditional Radio" we avoid this issue.
 * We are creating an encyclopedia here, and we should try to be deliberate about what means what as we give treatments of established topics. If there is a distinction to be made here &mdash; and I think there is &mdash; then we should help readers by showing the parallels between radio stations and internet feeds, but not conflate them.

I don't believe we should automatically include all internet audio feeds that happen to originate from university networks or student groups as "campus radio" stations. The clear line in the sand to me, then, is to include none of them... although I am open to suggestion. -- cmh 16:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Bold text===Your reaction wanted here=== I realize that there is a problem in England due to their restricted licensing scheme, but I would be happy to include stations that broadcast even intermittently, on carrier current, etc. as campus stations as these fall under traditional radio regulation. Of course, many campus radio stations proper also broadcast their feed on the internet, and that's OK (these are then both campus and internet stations). -- cmh 16:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * As the person who originally raised the issue, I want to clarify that I'm not strongly wedded to the idea that they be categorized specifically as radio stations; my primary interest is in ensuring that they're categorized in a subcategory of Category:Student culture (and, in the case of Fusion Radio, a subcategory of Category:University and college media in Canada). If people think it would be a good idea to have a separate subcategory for "Student internet broadcasting ventures" or something to that effect, I'm entirely fine with that; I just don't agree with removing Category:Campus radio stations in Canada without a replacement category in place. (And, for the record, I'm not entirely convinced that a campus "radio station" airing solely on Internet streaming audio really merits an encyclopedia article in the first place, but I can't say I feel strongly enough about it to actually take on AFDing them all.) Bearcat 18:38, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Two things are clear to me. First, we are all alone here. Second, having reviewed your comments I'm not sure we disagree too much. I don't feel that strongly about the exact categorization. I think a specific subcat would be better as you mentioned, but I don't have the cycles to do that myself right now. For me at this point it's important that we keep a clear distinction here in Campus radio on the topic, and I will try to keep an eye out for that. But as for the cats and lists, well as long as Campus radio is clear on the point then most readers will discover for themselves that they are campus radio format and not campus radio. Sorry to get you all riled about about this, but I am glad at least that I put down the above points as I think they'll be helpful to others editing here. Cheers. -- cmh 02:22, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll buy the Web simulcast from a licensed on-air station as "radio" but if "you ain't on the air, you ain't no-where." --Copymanwiki (talk) 20:08, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

While I agree that the differences between campus broadcast and internet radio should be considered, what about the case where a station has had both an FM license and an internet feed, but lost the FM license and continued to broadcast on the internet feed? I'm thinking specifically of CKLN-FM here. MrsRStark (talk) 12:43, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

WEXP
Ok. Let's be clear here. The two unsourced statements that I removed have been around for a long time it is true. But time does not substitute for sources. Regarding WEXP, that link has not been around for a long time. It was added by 139.84.121.26 in March and removed 3 weeks later. You re-added it yesterday. There is a list of campus radio stations which already has WEXP (added by you?). This article does not need to duplicate the list, and great as the sports service may be &mdash; and as an editor not affiliated with the WEXP page &mdash; I feel it does not merit inclusion here. -- cmh 21:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

It was added much before that...was removed, an re-started in March. The article should touch on the "top" and "first/oldest" stations in my opinion. Top stations based on membership, signal (watts), sports, range, facilities, etc.66.30.130.133

I see that it was present on the page for four more months between November 10 and Feb 04, at which point it was quite properly removed by another editor because it was not a radio station. I have researched its current broadcasting status by I am not 100% positive that I did everything right, but I find no mention of any broadcasting over the air by a WEXP either at La Salle University or anywhere in PA. Can you point to any reliable sources that indicate that WEXP is a currently broadcasting AM station in PA with a license?
 * 1) checking out the website (no mention of broadcast status)
 * 2) checking out fccinfo data last updated May 11 2006
 * 3) searching the FCC's website

Regarding what is on topic for the article, this is an article that discusses the concept of Campus radio. I do not share your opinion that sports is in the same category as signal and range in a discussion about the topic of radio. In any case, I am not sure that it is a shining example of a campus radio station as it seems to be positioned as an internet station and is not attempting to attract listeners over the air. It may be an internet radio station with a college format, and it may be a great one, but stations linked to from here must be good examples of campus radio stations.

I realize that as a contributor to the WEXP article you feel close to it, and perhaps to the station as well. But IMO it is appropriately linked to from the list of campus radio stations and does not merit a mention here. -- cmh 14:50, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm inclined to agree with cmh. I'd also add that we need to be careful not to overload basic overview articles like this with so much minute detail on every individual related topic that the article ceases to become useful. WEXP already has an article, so it's perfectly appropriate to mention its unique features there — but it's not quite the place of this article to start discussing every individual campus radio station in depth. I see this same thing happen, for example, at Music of Canada, where people have this ongoing habit of adding their own personal favourite artists even if they don't really fit (obscure folksingers listed as among Canada's most internationally successful artists, etc.) — and if this tendency is left unchecked, the effect is to turn the article from a half-decent overview into an eye-glazingly endless list of artists even though there's already a separate List of Canadian musicians for people who want that.


 * Nobody's saying that WEXP doesn't deserve its own article — but the point of campus radio isn't to get into paragraphs of detail about every individual radio station. There's already a list of campus radio stations to list and link to individual stations, so I don't see a convincing reason why WEXP deserves special mention in the overview article. Bearcat 18:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

As far as the station's AM status, the proof is in the award that they just won. The Pennsylvania Association of broadcasters only allows stations approved by the FCC to be members. The AM isn't listed on the WEXP site, because I believe it was just recently put into place on 1600AM. 192.160.62.60


 * While your statement lends some support to its status, the other issues remain, and I think WEXP is the right place for information on this station at present. -- cmh 15:03, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Merging Campus radio in India
I think we should proceed with the merger. The proposal is there for the last 4 months. &mdash; Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I think you should proceed if you can. -- cmh 14:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Just did it. FreelanceWizard 00:39, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Article location
Is "campus radio" really the best location for this? A lot of institutions don't have what would be considered to be a "campus" and there is a difference between an official institution run radio station and a student radio station. Timrollpickering 07:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I think the only way to solve this is to do a survey. I quickly looked into the top few countries on list of countries where English is an official language and the top 10 countries on list of countries by English-speaking population. Results were
 * Campus radio used in canada, india, pakistan, china, israel, germany, france
 * Student radio used in UK, australia
 * University radio used in nigeria, kenya
 * College radio used in US

In south africa there is no name as these are part of the community station network. I was unable to figure out the philippines. I do not claim this is an exhaustive search, but I think that campus is the best name. Note that I spent quite a bit of time thinking about this back in March when I spent a bunch of time cleaning up campus radio. While nobody cared to participate at the time, I did propose campus radio then, and I think it is still the best name now. (comments copied from CfR) -- cmhTC 14:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure a tyranny of numbers of approach works when it produces a name that in several parts of the world has very different connotations from the rest. The term really needs to be something that everyone would recognise and I think "student radio" is the broadest. "University" and "College" radio both exclude other educational institutions and "Campus" refers to something a lot of institutions don't have and also sounds like a formal service. Timrollpickering 16:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Let's talk about this in the CfR where others can participate. This is too hard to keep track of when the comments are copied onto multiple pages. -- cmhTC 17:13, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

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Germany?
I thought it was curious that there are extensive list of college radio stations for so many countries, but not Germany. Anyone know about the campus radio situation there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.143.230.1 (talk) 05:11, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Campus Radio in Canada
I've been editing the Canadian section of the article and since there is a substantial amount of information to add, would it not make sense to have a separate page for each country's implementation of Campus Radio? Each country has different laws governing what these stations can do and therefore campus radio has different cultural aspects in every country. Or should we leave it as is? I've also been working on adding references to improve the quality rating of this article. MrsRStark (talk) 18:58, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup of POV in US section
Tried to clean up the US section a bit by removing editorial comments and adding more encyclopedic references. One of the examples cited for a station being taken off the air was removed since the station returned to the air shortly thereafter (according to radio-locator). 70.36.212.48 (talk) 01:34, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV
I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:06, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

CampusRadio24
This appears to be a plug for that radio, for which CampusRadio24.com returns a "suspended" error, also the Facebook page features Bengali[?] prominently which I cannot read (limiting my ability to offer much more input). Eliminating the entry from the world/Bangladesh section is probably unwarranted, but this particular entry wavers in and out of Wikipedia's guidelines, features no citation, and seems to exist on shaky grounds as it is. If someone who speaks Bengali could clean it up that would be fantastic -- failing that, the wording at least should be changed. Strangejames (talk) 16:33, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

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The list should be split out or just scrapped, and the article should be refocused on what has been written on college radio. Here's a recent Pitchfork article. czar 23:51, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

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No Spanish Campus Radio????
I can't believe that Spanish Campus Radio aren't here. There are many Spanish Campus Radio. Please, write about it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.94.129.18 (talk) 18:57, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Trimming
This article will need trimming for anything that doesn't have a reference. There's a lot that doesn't. So, if you would like not to have something trimmed, please add a reference supporting it. Seraphimblade Talk to me 10:23, 3 September 2023 (UTC)