Broadcasting twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week,
WBGU-FM offers Bowling Green a great opportunity to hear
non-commercial radio. Located at 88.1 FM, the station
airs a mix of shows both new to the station as well as
programs tried and true. With each DJ presenting their
own programming, listeners can expect to hear a diverse
spread of music from Indie Rock to Latin beats, Hip-Hop
to Folk, Country to Goth, as well as a variety of sports,
news, and talk shows.
WBGU traces its beginnings to December 1947 when BGSU
students set up a PA system and “broadcast”
the Bowling Green vs. City College of New York basketball
game to listeners willing to pay fifteen cents. With the
dawn of closed circuit radio and its popularity on college
campuses, Bowling Green established its own wired-wireless
system. The station joined with the Intercollegiate Broadcasting
System, registered with the FCC, and launched initial
broadcasting from an antenna atop of the Administration
Building (also the site of their current antenna). The
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Changes in housing, equipment and power came with the
growth of Bowling Green’s campus and the introduction
of new technologies. For many years the station's broadcasting
studios were on the 4th floor of South Hall. WBGU's
current studios are in recently remodeled space in West
Hall.
Re-wired, updated, and advanced, WBGU-FM continues to
change with the times, with advancements such as the
addition of CD players starting in 1987, and computer-automated
programming which allows continuous broadcast even when
a DJ is not available. And WBGU serves a world-wide
audience on the web, with a highly ranked web broadcast
which it started in the year 2000.
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