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In the Spring of 2006 (I think?) the transmitter died. You couldn't even really hear us around Wegmans. We started making plans to raise money for a new one, which included things like bake sales for the drunk frat kids on Orchard street on a Friday night. Thankfully, we did not have to actually sell cookies to drunk frat kids. The provost, who was impressed with the sports kids (that year they broadcasted a local high school basketball game so that one of the kids on the team who was in the hospital at the time could listen online), came through and gave us money for a new transmitter. It took a few months until it actually came in, but it finally did right before the beginning of the Fall 06 semester, if I remember correctly.
In the Fall of 2006, WGSU participated for what I can only imagine would be the first time for the station in... the homecoming parade. WGSU and homecoming?!! Who knew!?! Not only that, but we won most entertaining float, probably because we had a couple of jugglers (Ray and Duncan) and we all started dancing when the judges came around. We won some money for that, but unfortunately we never actually got the money due to confusion and miscommunication somewhere along the line. All the floats were actually shopping carts. We decorated ours like a radio, and we brought a real radio along to play some music as we paraded around. A couple of groups in front of us was a real band though, I'm not sure if it was the Geneseo string band or just a group of students with Professor Kimball. I'm not sure they could be heard over our music. That was probably not very considerate of us. oops.
Also, we wrote and put up pictures of the 2006 CMJ trip here: http://wgsu.geneseo.edu/blog/2006/11/this-place-is-blog-city.html
Wow, good story - I had no idea the transmitter was knocked out like that...
In, oh geez, 2001(?) I actually participated in the homecoming parade with WGSU. We rode in someone's jeep and I kept holding up a bobblehead dog toy (this wasn't funny then either). We meant well, but we definitely DID NOT win any awards for that showing.
I'm a real WGSU old-timer (1970-74 era), compared with the other folks who have posted here.
Sorry if I come off as an old fogie with ancient memories, but maybe that's what I am!
There are many memories.
One was the time we lured the old blues singer Son House out of his place in Rochester (with a large bottle of whiskey),and had him do a concert in the studio.
He was raunchy and very real.
A weird, but unforgettable night.
-DonL
I remember one night in the early 70s, listening to a particularly compelling bit of very strange music, and calling the station to find out what it was.
The conversation went something like this:
Me:
"What track are you playing
right now?"
GSU DJ: "Uh...Which one?"
(i.e. the DJ was playing 2 tracks simultaneously that blended almost perfectly with each other!)
This became an occasional GSU broadcasting technique, if two songs were found that could be played at the dame time).
DonL
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