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New T-Shirts Now Available!!! (Limited Time Only!)
We finally have T-Shirts for purchase online! YAY! Now you can show your WDCV pride with brand new t-shirt. The bookstore is selling them as well as their online store. WDCV will be selling them at different events over Homecoming Weekend when we will be celebrating our 50th Anniversary. Get ’em while they’re hot, they won’t be available for online purchase for very long. This is a limited run!
You’re Invited! WDCV 50th Anniversary Celebration-Homecoming Weekend
Hello All!
It’s almost here! WDCV’s BIG 50th Anniversary Celebration is exactly one month away. We are so excited we can barely contain ourselves. Our exec staff is already planning out the details of the day….and the day is PACKED with fun stuff! We can finally tell you all of the events we have in store for you on Saturday, September 29th 2012.
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
WDCV will be participating in Homecoming Fall Fest
New this year – see what Dickinson is all about! Come to Belvedere Field (behind the stadium) and visit the festival as student clubs, academic departments and on-campus organizations showcase what they are doing. Belvedere Field
1 p.m.
WDCV Sports Broadcasters will be broadcasting the Red Devils vs. Franklin & Marshall Football Game
Wear red to show your school spirit! At halftime, the newest members of Dickinson’s Sports Hall of Fame will be introduced: At halftime, the newest members of Dickinson’s Sports Hall of Fame will be introduced. Christine Hufenbecher ’02 (indoor & outdoor track), Keith Fischer ’02 (football), Kim Unsworth Franklin ’96 (swimming), Liz Allen Starks ’02 (cross country/indoor & outdoor track). Longtime equipment manager Sherwood “Dutch” Kepner will be posthumously inducted, and the 1999-2002 Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Team also will be honored for their achievements. $3 for adults, $1 for children over 10, free for students with their Dickinson ID and children under 10. Biddle Field
***WDCV’s very own Sports Broadcasting Advisor, Keith Fischer ’02, will be inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at half time!!***
3-5 p.m.
WDCV 50th Anniversary Open House
Stop by WDCV’s Studio for a tour of our digs in the lower level of the HUB. Check out our timeline of WDCV’s history in the hallway leading up to the station. The studio will be open for Alumni DJs so bring some music along or just get behind the mic again and tell Dickinson & Carlisle what you have been up to. Mingle with alums and current DJs, eat some snacks, reminisce, tell us secrets about WDCV that we never would have known……
5-7 p.m.
WDCV 50th Anniversary Reception
This is where we will really celebrate you, the alumni, for getting us here. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres with great company plus music from old radio shows.
Reception will be held in Rector Atrium
***Please RSVP to this event so we can have a count for food. wdcvalumni@gmail.com ***
What else do we have up our sleeves? We have ordered a big pile of WDCV gear so you can leave Dickinson and promote your love of all things WDCV. We will have free buttons and stickers and we will be selling t-shirts (at very reasonable prices!). All of our great WDCV exec staff and DJs will also be wearing WDCV shirts so ask any of them if you need directions or help finding what WDCV events are going on over the weekend.
Finally, if you haven’t filled out our Alumni Survey yet, please do so! We would love to hear about what you are currently up to and all about your time at WDCV!
Keep connected with us!
See you on September 29th!
Keith Fischer ’02- WDCV Sports Broadcasting Advisor- To Be Inducted Into Dickinson Sports Hall of Fame
Keith Fischer ’02, WDCV’s Sport Broadcasting Advisor, is a humble guy who probably didn’t want to make a big deal about him getting inducted into the Dickinson Sports Hall of Fame for Football…..so he didn’t tell us. The internet is great for finding out these bits of info though, so as we looked at the Homecoming Schedule (WDCV is planning a BIG celebration that weekend for our 50th Anniversary) we noticed this post about the football game.
Sat. Sept 29th 2012 1 p.m.
Red Devils vs. Franklin & Marshall Football Game Wear red to show your school spirit! At halftime, the newest members of Dickinson’s Sports Hall of Fame will be introduced: At halftime, the newest members of Dickinson’s Sports Hall of Fame will be introduced. Christine Hufenbecher ’02 (indoor & outdoor track), Keith Fischer ’02 (football), Kim Unsworth Franklin ’96 (swimming), Liz Allen Starks ’02 (cross country/indoor & outdoor track). Longtime equipment manager Sherwood “Dutch” Kepner will be posthumously inducted, and the 1999-2002 Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Team also will be honored for their achievements. $3 for adults, $1 for children over 10, free for students with their Dickinson ID and children under 10. Biddle Field
WHAT!? Sorry Keith, this is too good to keep under wraps. Kudos on your achievement! WDCV thanks you for doing such a great job with our Sports Broadcasting team and we are super happy you will be recognized for the years you spent playing on Biddle Field.
How People Listen to Music via NPR & Nielson
We have often heard that only about 20% of college students come to school with a radio. We consider this statistic when we try to grow our audience by thinking of different ways to connect with people both on and off campus. We often broadcast Live on Britton Plaza and at downtown events so we can meet people in our community and come out of the shadows of the HUB basement. NPR posted this blog today that showed a rather interesting breakdown of how teens listen to music. We are surprised and encouraged to find that 56% of teens still listen to the radio. When we looked at the data that this graph was taken from, we were even more encouraged.
Nielson has a whole report on how people discover music. So how do most people still find music? RADIO! We are pleased as punch that people still respect and use this medium. Why do people like radio? It’s free. It’s always on. You don’t have to think of what you want to listen to, you just have to know what stations give you the news, information and music that you like. Also, some stations still have real djs. Live people playing music just for you. How nice:)
We also believe that College Radio is still very important even in this world of changing media. College Radio is one of the few remaining un-commerialized forms of mass media. Our students can start broadcasting the first year they get on campus. We hope that teens (and adults) will continue enjoying and supporting College Radio. We turn 50 this year and we are planning on being around for a long, long time.
WDCV 50th Anniversary Article in The Sentinel
Thanks to our “Catching The Sun” Dj, Phil Peoples, The Sentinel found out about our 50th Anniversary and upcoming plans to celebrate over Homecoming Weekend. They will be writing up more closer to the date (September 29th is our Celebration Day) so stay tuned!
WDCV 50th Anniversary-Alumni & Homecoming Weekend Updates!
Hello WDCV Alumni!!
Thanks again for filling out WDCV’s alumni survey and keeping in touch! We wanted to update you on our plans for our 50th Anniversary festivities.
Dickinson College’s Alumni Weekend is just around the corner (June 8th & 9th) and today (May 25th) is the last day to register for the weekend. WDCV will be holding a few events including a live broadcast on Britton Plaza Friday June 8th from 1-3pm and an Open House Saturday June 9th from 1-3pm. We will be showcasing our vast archive of images, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia we have collected from WDCV’s last 50 years.
It’s not too late to share your personal collection with us! Please email if you have anything you might want to donate to WDCV or make a copy for us to have. If you are coming out for the weekend, bring your stuff along and we can try to make copy while you are here! If you know of any WDCV alums that haven’t connected with us, please forward this on to them too!
We are hoping to connect with a few of you attending from the class of 1962. We are celebrating 50 years right along with you and thank you for helping to get WDCV started!
No worries if you can’t make it out for Alumni Weekend because this is just a warm up to our big plans for Homecoming Weekend (September 29th). We are hoping WDCV alums will connect with each other and plan to come out in groups. We have heard such great stories through the alumni survey and we want to here all of the details of your time at WDCV. Mark your calendar because here is what we have planned:
- Live Broadcast from the Football Game
- Sports Broadcasters Meet and Greet at Biddle Field
- Live Broadcasts on Britton Plaza
- WDCV Open House & Alumni DJing
- WDCV 50 Year Archive Display
- WDCV Alumni Reception
While you are here, pick up your WDCV gear! We will have free buttons as well as t-shirts and other goodies for sale. Thanks again for supporting WDCV-FM all of these years. We can’t wait to see you soon!!!!
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Look at our fancy new Bulletin Board!
I can’t even begin to describe how excited I was when I saw that this bulletin board was finally created. (I actually, kinda, hugged it I was that happy) We are so excited about our 50th anniversary and I think this is a perfect illustration of our glee.
WDCV 50th Anniversary in 2012!!
Hello WDCV Alumni!
Did you know that this year we are celebrating WDCV’s 50th anniversary? It’s true! We’re planning a big celebration over Homecoming & Family Weekend, so mark your calendars for Sept. 28-30, 2012!
To prepare for our big 5-0, we want to reconnect with the people who have made the station what it is today—our alumni. We have a list of alumni who have noted WDCV as one of their activities; however, there are probably plenty of alumni out there with whom we would love to reconnect, even if they only took a few spins at the station. We hope you will pass this information their way so we can gather as much WDCV history as possible.
Our goal is to gather items to create a WDCV online showcase that chronicles the last 50 fun-filled years. We have been digging through the archives and yearbooks for references to the station. In addition to your stories, we hope you will share any WDCV-related pictures, posters and memorabilia lurking in your garages.
Also, we would love to hear from you about your time at WDCV! To make this the best 50th anniversary, we hope you can help us gather more information about the station by filling out this quick survey.
To share your stories, memorabilia or posters from your days at WDCV, e-mail wdcvalumni@gmail.com. You may send digital images of photos or memorabilia, but if you would be interested in donating the originals to the archives, send them to us at the address listed on the right. Have any old recordings? We’d love to hear those as well, so feel free to share old shows, stories or recordings. If you have any questions, contact us directly and we will find a way to help!
We hope you will stay in touch with WDCV through our Web site wdcvfm.com and our Facebook and Twitter pages. We are just in the planning stages of the celebration, so we welcome your ideas.
Here’s to 50 years—let’s make this the biggest WDCV reunion ever!
Thank you,
WDCV Exec Board
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Become a WDCV DJ!!
School is here and WDCV is looking for djs to fill our airwaves with delightful tunes! If you are interested in becoming a dj (or returning from last year) you can stop by the WDCV table at activities night. We will hold dj meetings on Sept. 14th & 15th (you only have to attend 1) in Tome 115 @7pm to give you all of the information you will need to get started. Follow us on Facebook for updates! If you have any other questions, or just want to say hello, email us at wdcvfm at gmail.com
