WVBR-FM

WVBR-FM (93.5 FM) is a college radio student-owned and volunteer-run station that broadcasts to Ithaca, New York, and surrounding areas. It operates at 3 kilowatts from a transmitter on Hungerford Hill, in Ithaca. A translator on 105.5 FM provides an additional and cleaner signal to certain areas of Ithaca. The website WVBR.com provides an additional web-based stream. WVBR recently purchased, remodeled and relocated to a new studio in Collegetown, located at 604 E. Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY 14853. A ribbon-cutting event was held on March 15, 2014. The new building is named the Olbermann-Corneliess Studios, after Keith Olbermann's father, Ted, and his close friend and alumnus, Glenn Corneliess.

Translators

In addition to the main station, WVBR-FM is relayed by an additional translator to widen its broadcast area.

Organization

WVBR is a commercial radio station, and is unusual because it is owned, operated and managed by Cornell University students. WVBR is completely independent of the university: it supports itself by selling advertising, and receives no funding from the university. Student and volunteer staff members are, for the most part, unpaid (some earn commissions on time sales or are paid a stipend to help operate the station during the summer and other times when Cornell classes are not in session). The station is owned by the Cornell Media Guild, a nonprofit organization composed entirely of students who work at the station. It acts as a training ground for students interested in broadcasting, as well as a serious commercial competitor in the Ithaca radio market. There are many other community members, of all ages, who work at the station.