WMBR
WMBR is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's student-run college radio station, licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and broadcasting on 88.1 FM. It is all-volunteer and funded by listener donations and MIT funds. Both students and community members can apply for positions, and like many college radio stations, WMBR offers diverse programming.
As of September 2015, the general manager is Jon Beaulieu and the program directors are Jennifer Chen and Ellie Klose.
The station's board of trustees is the Technology Broadcasting Corporation, whose members are appointed by the President of MIT. The officers are: President - Marianna Parker; Vice President - Anne Slinn; Clerk - Todd Glickman; Treasurer - Shawn Mamros.
History
WMBR is the third set of call letters for the station.
The first MIT student broadcasting station first signed on as WMIT on November 25, 1946. It had a "carrier current" AM transmitter located in the Ware entryway of Senior House dormitory and broadcast over power lines at 800, and later 640 kilocycles ("kilocycles per second" being the proper period term for the unit of frequency now called the "kilohertz"). Audible only within a few hundred feet of the dorms, under FCC Part 15 regulations it could and did broadcast commercials and was self-supporting. The station simultaneously provided audio signals of its broadcasts over "dorm line" wires that ran past exterior windows of the MIT dormitories, for residents to connect to their hi-fi gear. An early experiment in stereo broadcasting, in 1960, put one stereo channel on the AM signal and the other on the dorm lines.
Podcasts:
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by Mayberry
Dance The Night
by: MayberryThere she goes walking down the stairs
Lipsticks on and she's ready to go
She slows down in hesitation, yeah
But i let her know she's beautiful
But tonight this town is ours
They'll never bring me down down hold me down
We'll ride around and sing sing sing out loud
And we'll run away and sail to the coast
And i'll spend the night
They're never gonna slow slow slow us down
We'll light a match and burn this city down
And this is my heart and this is my soul
And i'll dance the night with the girl i love the most
And i don't care if we ever leave
Its everything a dream could be
Her hands around my neck
My hands are at her waist
As all of our plans fall into place
But tonight this town is ours
They'll never bring me down down hold me down
We'll ride around and sing sing sing out loud
And we'll run away and sail to the coast
And i'll spend the night
They're never gonna slow slow slow us down
We'll light a match and burn this city down
And this is my heart and this is my soul
And i'll dance the night with the girl i love the most
With the girl i love the most, Oh baby hold on tight lets make this right.
They'll never bring me down down hold me down
We'll ride around and sing sing sing out loud
And we'll run away and sail to the coast
And i'll spend the night
They'll never bring me down down hold me down
We'll ride around and sing sing sing out loud
And we'll run away and sail to the coast
And i'll spend the night
They're never gonna slow slow slow us down
We'll light a match and burn this city down
And this is my heart and this is my soul