After seven months of being offline, Castle Point Radio (WCPR) is gearing up to start streaming once again. WCPR has had a rough year and a half, starting with the move in December 2018 from Jacobus Hall to their temporary location on the 7th floor of the Wesley J. Howe Center. They were able to start broadcasting by the end of Spring 2019 using their autoDJ software but were not able to get any shows running. “The space was not designed to be a station so we did pretty much nothing,” said Laina Emmons, President of WCPR. The autoDJ ran WCPR’s broadcasts from the end of Spring 2019 until that summer when the cyber attack took them offline yet again.
As for WCPR’s move from Howe to the Student Center, “The move itself went pretty smoothly I must say,” said Emmons. “There were some initial issues getting our stream back up because IT now takes extra precautions to prevent vulnerabilities in our server, but it was very quickly resolved and our autoDJ was back up.” Their autoDJ software is still running all of the current music, but Emmons hopes to have shows running by the week of March 9. Anyone at Stevens can host their own show, so long as they attend at least two meetings and one meeting per month going forward.
WCPR is currently accepting submissions for shows. “We allow you to do whatever kind of show you want; talk, country, pop, indie, literally whatever as long as it is in compliance with FCC guidelines,” according to Emmons. GBMs are held every other Wednesday, with the next occurring on March 11. Finally, WCPR is hosting a concert on Babbio Patio on April 18. The artist is currently unannounced, but Emmons assures us that it is “very very exciting!”
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