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The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Genre Label 8:00 PM Combo Audio Romanticide Secret 8:04 PM Dead Sea Squirrels 1800 Miles 8:07 PM The Groop…
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So I’ve been blasting away on my brand new radio show. It’s been fun, and even though each episode is only an hour in length, I’ve been enjoying making the shows, finding the music, producing the content – in other words, it’s like being back in college, but without the classwork. But here’s the thing. …
Read MoreThe following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Time Artist Song Composer Label 8:56 PM Emerson Bimby My Little Bomb Show Nuff 8:49 PM Jenny Burton Remember What You…
Read MoreDuring my college radio years – the early college radio years, from 1981 to 1985 – we had a strict rule. Whatever a DJ played on the air had to be written down on a special sheet of paper. This was your playlist. It didn’t matter if you played ten Beatles records in a row,…
Read MoreSo over the summer, I’ve remotely returned to my old college radio station, WHCL 88.7 FM in Hamilton College. I did a one-hour broadcast of my old “Nightowl Radio Show,” a mixture of popular and eclectic music. It was fun, it was entertaining, it was a chance to be part of one of the few…
Read MoreJennifer Hager and I went to college together. We were good friends – and if you could say someone was “kind of intelligent,” Jennifer was certainly “intelligent and kind.” Still is, in fact. Although the years have guided us on different paths, we recently re-connected on Facebook. And apparently, during COVID-19, she’s found a new…
Read MoreThis summer, I was able to return to my college radio station, WHCL (88.7 FM, or whcl.org for you new-heads). Friday nights at 11:00 p.m. Eastern time, my old college radio show, the Nightowl Radio Show, returned from the archives and spun once more. It’s been a fun run, and I really enjoyed putting together…
Read MoreJakeila Phillips puts up with racism more often than she should. She lives in Utica, and she’s dealt with idiots who use the N-word and a few other choice expletives in her general vicinity. Last week, she had the good fortune to record one of these chuds in action. And she posted it on her…
Read MoreBackground. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, my alma mater, Hamilton College, essentially shut down its physical campus. Students were taught via teleconference, and Hamilton’s usual extracurricular activities were culled for the year. All except one. The college radio station, WHCL, continued to operate. And that’s mostly because it was able to have a combination of…
Read MoreBackground. I attended Hamilton College in the early 1980’s, from 1981 to 1985, to be precise. And during that time, I found a little organization where I could actually feel worthwhile – it was the radio station, WHCL. Reading news, producing promos, sourcing music, on-air talent, you name it, I did it. Heck, during my…
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