WWCU will expand its over-air reach in WNC

The story was originally published in The Sylva Herald on June 10. The small radio station that at one time could only broadcast to a few Western Carolina University buildings will soon reach more the 100,000 people in the Western North Carolina area. The student run station, WWCU, on the WCU campus is switching frequencies […]

WWCU GM Lyndan Jones supports and serves the community

WCU senior Lyndan Jones puts the light into a now dim radio station where COVID-19 has taken over. The motivated student has been leading WWCU FM as the student general manager for three years, beginning only as a sophomore. Jones originally learned of the station from Valley Ballyhoo during her freshman year in 2017. She […]

“Blackbeard’s Ghost” is coming to WCU

A man and his horse, a country to protect, history’s most notorious pirate, and don’t forget the Nazis. This year, Western Carolina University’s radio show has it all. WCU will be broadcasting a performance of “Blackbeard’s Ghost and The Queen Anne’s Revenge” in the Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday […]

New radio station at WCU will reach far

Western Carolina University will create a new non-commercial radio station that could potentially reach 5 counties in Western North Carolina, after waiting nearly six years for the decision from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). WCU and the Department of Communication will run the new station on the 95.3 FM frequency. The current station, WWCU 90.5 FM, reaches […]

Auditions for ‘Echoes’: Picking the right talent

“Echoes of the Cotton Club” was a live radio broadcast at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center for one night only on April 24, but just as any play it it takes long preparations and practice. And it all starts with the auditions. The Western Carolina Journalist followed a few of the […]

“Echoes of the Cotton Club” to perform Thursday night

Imagine it’s 1927 in the Harlem district of New York City during prohibition. Alcohol is illegal, but it’s easy to pay off the police in the mainly black district. Owney “The Killer” Madden, an English gangster, owns a club that is only the rich white clientele can enter called the Cotton Club. It employs solely […]