WOBC
Oberlin's
student radio station
T.
Buckingham Thomas physics Oberlin WOBC Richwood Tom Thomas Chyron
Infinit Pittsburgh
As
a student at Oberlin College, I became the director of the
student-operated FM station. Most of my articles that mention
Oberlin's WOBC are listed below.
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Student radio enthusiasts build their very own station, then move it to a vacant garage. |
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1960 |
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Starting with a basketball broadcast on December 1, 1965, I soon become WOBC's sports director. |
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A movie reminds me of my overdone countdown from a basketball remote. |
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Correspondence and scripts for our new weekly radio feature. |
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Planning the 1966 college-football broadcast season. |
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Details of 53 live sports events and 28 studio shows that we broadcast during my four years at Oberlin. |
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Scripts
by and for the host, 1967. |
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Previously published pictures of WOBC, circa 1967. |
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By torchlight, students in the spring of 1967 agitate for liberalized housing rules. |
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Some snapshots. |
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To
fill a hole in the WOBC schedule, I play folk-pop songs performed by
Jim Gertmenian and friends. |
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Letters document my junior and senior years, when I rose to the position of station director. |
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Excerpts from the 1968 instruction manual. |
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Remembering the Beatles and radio marathons. |
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I cover the campus election returns. |
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I
report on an anti-war vigil and converse with my lab partner. |
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Anti-war
students march on Administration Building, chant
"Kill!" Dramatic encounter ensues. (Click
on the sidebar about my sources and how this event was recorded.) |
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Leaving the student radio station was the hardest part, according to these letters from 1969. |
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Correspondence with one WOBC friend, who finds work in Chicago and becomes a professor. |
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1970 |
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A list of more than 50 students who served as department heads at WOBC, 1966 through 1971. |
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A brief stint at another campus FM. |
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Some
things are constant at my old college station, especially change. |
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1980 |
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If WOBC were all-news, how would I organize it? |
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2000 |
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Another visit to my college radio station, this time to observe its 50th anniversary. |
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2010 |
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Graduating seniors in 2019 depict WOBC's long history in a short animated film. |
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2020 |
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Listen to 50 songs that former DJ Marc Knight programmed for his 50th reunion. |
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After nearly 60 years on the third floor of Wilder Hall, renovations require the station to relocate to the fourth. |
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At my 54-year college reunion I talk with folks including students at the new WOBC studio, then return home early. |
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My collection of WOBC Program Guides provides an overview of the
station's operation from 1965 to 1969.
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Broadcasting magazine and yearbook |
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Gordon Lightfoot and Moms Mabley |
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Headphones for DJ's: are they tuned to the off-air signal? |
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“Minstrel of the Dawn” might have been a good theme song |
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Panel discussion re-imagined as if WOBC were an all-news TV channel |
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Poet Laureate of the future visits Oberlin |
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Posters at 21st-century WOBC |
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Station packed up and moved upstairs; I visit the new digs |
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Taking requests from the Rat |
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Why don't we do it in the Abbey Road? No one will be watching us |
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Wiring still doesn't always work |
