Triton College’s WRRG set to celebrate 50 years on the air

For decades, students at Triton College have been filling the airwaves with a wide range of music at WRRG, 88.9 on the FM dial. But for a long time, nobody really knew how many people were listening to the student radio station.

“Some of it depends on how clear the skies are,” said Kelli Lynch, who oversees daily operations at the station. At just 100 watts, it may be hard to pick up WRRG on a car radio or at home for those further out from Triton’s River Grove campus.

But that hasn’t stopped generations of DJs from learning the tools of the trade while broadcasting music that, in some cases, isn’t found anywhere else on the airwaves.

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