Jennifer Waits

Musings about college radio, pop culture, and audio culture by Jennifer Waits can now be found at: @spinningindie.bsky.social

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️

Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.

It’s all in our blog ⬇️
https://t.co/jIp00bexhZ

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#WorldRadioDay @InternetArchive

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This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications at the Internet Archive. 📻 Explore ➡️ https://t.co/ZQaZUfR3qM

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🎙 College & community radio have shaped generations. Now hear how their history is preserved! Jennifer Waits, Curator of the @InternetArchive's DLARC College Radio Collection, speaks on SAVING COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY at GRC 2025.

🕚 Sept 12, 11:15 AM
📍 906 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA
📅 Details & registration ➡️ https://t.co/BTz1xHSTXp

#GrassrootsRadio #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio #RadioArchives @SpinningIndie

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I'm on the hunt for college radio goodies! Take a look at these highlights of what we've collected for the college radio collection within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications on @internetarchive .

https://t.co/3hQ9C1Rxy1

[Radio Survivor @RadioSurvivor]

In a twist on our annual tradition,
@SpinningIndie shares tips on how to find "Alice's Restaurant" on your radio dial this Thanksgiving. https://t.co/nvO7savJhP

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Actually, this post was from June 2009. I joined Twitter in March 2009.

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Downloaded my Twitter data (really trying to leave!) and it's surreal to see this tweet from March 2009 about my very first @RadioSurvivor piece, which theorizes on Twitter being the new college radio.

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is helping launch Radio Survivor. My inaugural post "Is Twitter is the new college radio?" http://tinyurl.com/kr8gel

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The time has come. I'll be over at @spinningindie.bsky.social

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Take a magical trip inside Bowdoin College radio station @wbor on our latest tour! https://t.co/w6lBWWi7bm

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Update: https://t.co/rvOhn0byKe is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: https://t.co/KrBM72yIBf

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Art school radio is the best! Thanks to college radio station WSVA for the tour and thanks to @SVA_News for the opportunity to dig even deeper into the station's history for my piece in Visual Arts Journal. https://t.co/NfZmG8LeP8

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This is such a crazy story about finding "lost" tapes. The 1980s radio show, "The Famous Computer Cafe," had an impressive run and an amazing roster of guests; but all the recordings were assumed to be gone forever. https://t.co/SH9uZLACO4

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I'm working on a digital college radio collection on the @internetarchive and we've just surpassed 1300 items, including 'zines, flyers, program guides, trade magazines, playlists & more. Let me know if you have college radio materials to donate or loan! https://t.co/OCog6mMU8b

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Catch the episode in the @KFJC897fm archives: https://t.co/WJypSwsO3O

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TONIGHT at 6pm-7pm Pacific, I'll be on @KFJC897fm 's ThoughtLine with Robert Emmett. We will be chatting about college radio culture and the @35000watts screening coming up at @FoothillCollege on Saturday 7/27. https://t.co/upRZEQvTLu

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The first SF Bay Area screening of the new college radio documentary @35000watts is coming up on Saturday, July 27 at @FoothillCollege , hosted by @KFJC897fm . I'll be on hand for the Q&A! https://t.co/gc5Gse5M4M

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I want to know more about Ina Coolbrith’s poems being read on the radio. The caption on this photo in today’s @sfchronicle piece by @peterhartlaub indicates that it was on KPQ, but I wonder if it was KPO. I think it was her 83rd bday circa 1924 - @calradiohistory - any insights?

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@peterhartlaub Thanks! It’s curious on so many levels. She does not look 63- and the radio station in caption did not exist when she was 63. I suspect she’s 83 here. As in this image:

https://t.co/Dvu4q7Ezl2

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Love this Uplister-style playlist full of a great mix of artists of Asian and Pacific Island descent for AAPIHM by @Nattotodd

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APIHM mixtape: R&B singer Thuy lets her ‘hair down’
https://t.co/EOYksPYNFD