The radio station relies on volunteers from the student body, college staff, and faculty to DJ in one-hour blocks. Though the station has only been transmitting radio waves for a few years, its history dates back further when the broadcasts would air on an on-campus cable television channel.
Began in 1990 as "Radio Free PC", a four-hour broadcast on WPCC 1410AM, the operation moved to the basement of the library in 1992 to operate on the campus cable TV. The campus-cable operation kept the name "Radio Free PC" and began an expanded nightly four-hour broadcast from 8pm to midnight.
As a registered student organization, or RSO, WPCX has a faculty member as an advisor. Through 2003, Dr. Eric Johnson fulfilled this function; after his death, though, the station facility was named in the professor's memory.
In 2018, WPCX relocated to new studio space in the Media Services department at Presbyterian College. Dr. Philip Perdue, Director of Communication Studies, is currently the station's faculty/staff advisor.
WHRW is Binghamton University's non-profit, student-run, free-format radio station. The station is licensed and owned by Binghamton University, serving the New York college area. WHRW has operational facilities in Glenn G. Bartle Library Tower and in SUNY Binghamton Student Union.
WDSE-FM is a 95,000-watt public radio station in Duluth, Minnesota, operated by the Duluth–Superior Area Educational Television Corporation, which primarily carries an adult alternative radio format but also has a number of programs focusing on jazz, blues, and other genres. It is part of Minnesota's Independent Public Radio network. Programming from national sources includes World Cafe and American Routes.
KUOM – branded Radio K - Real College Radio – is a daytime-only, non-commercial, college radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Owned by the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, the station is operated by students and faculty. It mainly airs alternative rock with other genres of music. The studios are in Rarig Center on the University of Minnesota campus.
WCUA is the college radio station broadcast from The Catholic University of America. Due to a lack of a license to broadcast at their designated frequency at 97.5 MHz FM and how the antenna is located at a building different from the studio, the station currently only broadcasts over the internet at their website.
WGLS-FM, known as Rowan Radio, is a college radio station licensed to Rowan University. The studios are located in the College of Communication on the campus of Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. WGLS-FM is Gloucester County's only FM radio station.
WIKD-LP is the radio station of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The station broadcasts in the Daytona Beach area as a LPFM, covering about a 5- to 7-mile radius from the transmitter site, with a coverage of roughly 120,000 people depending on time of year not including online streaming. The station is non-profit, entirely student run, and does not have a fixed format, however focuses on Top 40, indie, and alternative rock.
WGOT-LP was a low power FM radio station that broadcast from Gainesville, Florida, United States. WGOT-LP was last operated as a community radio station by the Civic Media Center, a non-profit library in Gainesville.
WRMU-FM is a non-commercial FM radio station at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio broadcasting at 91.1 MHz.
WPSC-FM – branded Brave New Radio – is William Paterson University's non-commercial radio station, broadcasting an alternative hip hop format. Licensed to Wayne, New Jersey, the station serves the north Jersey and western New York City area. In 2012, 2013, 2017 and, most recently, March 2018, the station was named Best College Radio Station by the Intercollegiate Broadcast System. Brave New Radio serves as the founding headquarters for World College Radio Day, an annual event created by the station's former general manager. In 2011, WPSC was one of the top 25 stations nominated for the mtvU Woodie Award for Best College Radio Station.
WLNX is a Christian radio station licensed to Lincoln, Illinois, United States.
KZUC-LP is the student radio station on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma. UCentral Radio applied for an LPFM license in November 2013 and was awarded a construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission on February 24, 2015. UCentral Radio is part of the UCentral student media network at the University of Central Oklahoma.
WHFR is a student-run college radio station owned by Henry Ford Collegein Dearborn, Michigan. The station is student-staffed and faculty-guided. Its studios are in the college's Student Center. The transmitter is also located on the campus, off Evergreen Road.
KTUH is a non-commercial, student-run, listener-supported station in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is owned by the University of Hawaii and it broadcasts a freeform radio format. Programming originates from studios on the campus at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. It runs 24 hours a day, all year round. The station holds periodic fundraisers on the air and also accepts donations on its website.
WSAJ-FM is a non-commercial college radio station located in Grove City, Pennsylvania. The station is owned and operated by Grove City College and carries syndicated classical and jazz music, as well as student programming and local sports coverage. The station is managed by an employee of the college, and its day-to-day operations are overseen by a staff of student volunteers when school is in session.
KSWC-LP is a radio station operated by students at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, United States. Between 1968 and 2015, the station was a Class D full-power station licensed to broadcast with 9 watts.
WTHS-FM is a college radio stationlicensed to Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
WVTX was a radio station formerly licensed to Colchester, Vermont and owned by Vermont Public. The station, established in 1973 by Saint Michael's College as the original FM home of its campus radio station WWPV-FM, last aired programming from the Vermont Public Classical network. Vermont Public turned in the station's license in 2024.
WFSE, known as Fighting Scots Radio, is a college radio station at PennWest Edinboro in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, United States. The station broadcasts from Compton Hall on the university campus and transmits from a facility located just off the on-ramp for I-79 South in Edinboro.
WRVG-LP is an American low-power FM radio station licensed to serve the community of Georgetown, Kentucky. The station is currently owned by Georgetown College.
WXEC-LP is a low-power FM radio station licensed for Eureka, Woodford County, Illinois, United States. The station is staffed by students of Eureka College and airs an alternative rock music format, along with specialty programs and the live sports broadcasts featuring the college's athletic program.
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