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...have to remember. The towers had loomed protectively over hide-and-go-seek games, my first bike ride, the time Adele Kudish tripped over me running through the spray of an open fire hydrant at my 10th birthday party. On late nights, as I walked home from the subway station, I would always look up at the lights scattered through the towers and muse over who was staying late to work, and why, and what people were celebrating up in Windows on the World, which cast an unbroken strip of light from the 107th floor...
When you tune your radio to 88.9 FM, you might hear hip-hop, or reggae, or folk, or show tunes, maybe even some Raffi. WERS is not a typical college radio station. Live, in-station performances, professional-quality breaks and a far-reaching signal make Emerson College radio stand out among college stations around the country and even among commercial stations in Boston. Student-run but professionally managed, WERS is known by listeners in Boston as the place to hear new sounds and music that won’t be played anywhere else...
...station has been on air since 1949 and has gone through a number of formats, including an all-classical format. Today, WERS’ varied programming reaches a full 25 miles out into New England, hitting five states. With a 4,000 watt signal and a transmitter on top of One Financial Center, WERS has power in the Boston market that is not the norm for college radio. “You’ll never find, in a market as large as Boston, another station with a signal as big as ours being run by undergrads...
...undergrads at Emerson get to work in professional-level surroundings, though. The station itself is located in the basement of 180 Tremont St., where WERS’ offices and production rooms take up two floors. The reception area, with its polka-dot carpet and mod design, feels like a design or architectural firm. It is obvious that much time and money were spent making the place look as slick as the station sounds. But the postal service bins of records and CDs let you know that this is a place of music. Downstairs are multiple student offices and the WERS...
...school for the arts and communication that includes broadcast media. Many but not all of the WERS student staff are Audio/Radio majors and plan on going into radio as a career. “I’ve learned a lot more about radio by doing stuff around the station than from class work,” says Matt O’Dette, a senior and Program Director of WERS...