I’m sunsetting the Nightowl Radio Show at the end of the summer.

Background. My involvement with radio station WHCL-FM at Hamilton College was arguably my happiest moments on campus. During my undergraduate years, I had a reasonably popular radio show that played a mixture of modern “new music” and whatever else I could rustle out of the record libraries. I named the program the “Nightowl Radio Show,” as a…

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Chuck’s personal Saturday sports recap

I know. Most of you would be more interested in spring training baseball games, or maybe the NCAA men’s basketball tournament right now. But for me … my Saturday was spent flipping between a women’s college ice hockey tournament round and a minor league basketball all-star contest. I started out with the NCAA Division III…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for March 8, 2024

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 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…

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Hey, Nazareth women’s ice hockey team … NIGHT NIGHT!!

Okay. I’m home last night, laptop computer up and ready. I log into the Hamilton College website, then go to the athletics page, and there it is. The one-and-done eliminator match, airing live from Sage Rink on campus, between the Hamilton College women’s ice hockey team and the whatever-they-ares from Nazareth College in Pennsylvania. This…

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“I pulled into Nazareth … on the way to the NCAA’s…”

Last year, I blogged about the amazing success achieved by my alma mater‘s women’s ice hockey team. The Hamilton College Continentals made a lot of noise in their first-ever NCAA tournament run, knocking off several colleges before getting up-ended by Amherst in the semifinals. Look, any time my college makes any sort of NCAA tournament,…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 23, 2024

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 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 9, 2024

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 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for February 2, 2024

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 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…

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