Triton College’s WRRG set to celebrate 50 years on the air
Posted by Media Reader on April 9, 2025, 10:15 am
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.
I was on WRRG many times in my younger years as a guest DJ. Wendy Snyder and Scott Dirks are the ones that stood out the most.
Julian Perez and Frankie Hollywood got a lot of time on there, notably Sundays.
The truth is, the station celebrates more dead air all the time these days. All hours of the day. Always past midnight, as the transmitter never goes off. I was told they will not be granted funding for automation and to be honest, no one has the drive to seek out an open source solution for it either, even if not a polished solution, it is an alternative.
Happy 50th! But like radio itself, reinvent or you will go away soon instead of celebrating more birthdays.
on April 9, 2025, 10:15 am