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Discuss “iPod killed the radio star”

While most CMU students were enjoying their winter vacations, a select few braved snow and bacteria alike in the pursuit of one thing: music. When WQED, a classical radio station in the Pittsburgh area, decided to dispose of their entire vinyl collection, Carnegie Mellon’s own WRCT was there to claim some of about 5000 trashed records.

“We dumpster-dove,” said Mike Szczerban, a senior English major and the staff representative of WRCT.

This is only the beginning of what makes WRCT unique as a college radio station, an activity for students, and a part of the city of Pittsburgh. Created in 1948, WRCT began with a signal so weak that it could only be heard within a few feet of the electrical wiring of CIT. Now, 58 years later, it has...

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