EXCHANGE: Celebrating University of St. Francis radio
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — For the past 30 years, WCSF 88.7 at the University of St. Francis in Joliet has been entertaining listeners in Will County and around the world.
About 25 people, most of them USF students, volunteer their time to broadcast music, shows and Fighting Saints sports. It's a mainly student-run station in which they do everything from deciding the music line-up to providing their on-air talents to promotions.
The station actually began as the WCSF Radio Club under Richard Lorenc, a USF Associate Professor of Communications and Media Arts, in 1978 as a carrier current station. It could only be heard in the dorms on campus via a 10-watt transmitter that students could plug into a wall outlet.