Promising news from Gen. Z: across the country, college radio stations are overwhelmed with students wanting to get involved. Here’s one station:
Demand for on-air slots is out-pacing “hours in the day” at WEGL (Auburn), GM Rae Nawrocki says. The station has grown from roughly 30 members four years ago to 120 students and 60 on-air shows today.
I’m so happy for these kids, and happy for our culture. Live radio rules, and helping make it can be so fun and rewarding. And what a great antidote to the ways capitalism keeps trying to consolidate music and power.
(I was a jazz DJ in college, and unlike my Slavic major, it actually prepared me for my day job, where among other duties I host a podcast that’s about to turn five.)
