WLRA (88.1
FM) or sometimes called WLRA Radio, or WLRA-FM, is a
college radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced ...
station broadcasting a
Variety
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Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats
* Variety (radio)
* Variety show, in theater and television
Films
* ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
* ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...
format. Licensed to
Lockport, Illinois
Lockport is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, located 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 26,094. The city was incorporated in 1853. It is situated along the Illinois and Michigan (I&M) Canal, an ...
, USA, the station serves the
Chicago
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Joliet region. The station is licensed to and owned by
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...
. Lewis University is a private
Roman Catholic
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and
Lasallian
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university with an enrollment of around 6,800 students. The station is a member of the
National Association of Broadcasters
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, Illinois Broadcasters Association, and
Broadcast Education Association
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.
Lewis University's radio station history
WFJL-FM – WLCL-AM – WERA-AM – WLRA-FM
* WFJL – (W – FJL – Frank J. Lewis) (93.1 FM Chicago) went on the air on May 22, 1949. WFJL is operated as a non-commercial station by Lewis College of Science and Technology (previous name of Lewis College, now
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...
).
1955 Broadcasting Yearbook–Marketbook
'', Broadcasting
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, 1955. p. 128. Retrieved February 2, 2019. The station's license was cancelled in 1956. WFJL, under the leadership of
Roman Catholic
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
Auxiliary
Bishop
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
Most Rev.
Bernard J. Sheil
Bernard James Sheil (February 18, 1888 – September 13, 1969) was an Auxiliary Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago.
Biography
Born and raised in Chicago, Sheil was ordained a priest on May 3, 1910. He was named auxiliary Bishop of Chicago in 1 ...
, D.D., of the
Archdiocese of Chicago
The Archdiocese of Chicago ( la, Archidiœcesis Chicagiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States. It was established as a diocese in 1843 and ...
and General Manager Jerry Keefe, radio format consisted of religious, educational, news, talk, and
CYO
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) is an international Catholic Church, Catholic youth movement founded by Bishop Bernard James Sheil, Bernard Sheil in Chicago in 1930. It would become a major factor in the development of race relations in the US ...
Boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...
. WFJL's facilities were located at the
Lincoln Tower Building
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, 75 East Wacker Drive,
Chicago
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above the ground and had an
effective radiated power
Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter. It is the total power in watts that would hav ...
of 29,000 watts.
* WLCL-AM – (W – LCL – Lewis College Lockport) AM
carrier current radio station on Lewis College, Lockport, Illinois campus. Located in the Sheil Hall dormitory basement from its inception until 1970, the station broadcast on 600 kHz to Sheil, Fitzpatrick, and Founders Halls. Robert Feustal and Norb Bora are credited with the inception of WLCL-AM and introducing college radio at Lewis. In 1969, the Sheil Hall basement facility was upgraded with new QRK professional turntables replacing the old Garrard consumer models AND a pair of Spotmaster tape cartridge machines to handle promos, jingles, etc. A used Gates Sta-Level compressor was installed, giving the station a much more professional technical sound. News, weather, and sports information now came to the station via a United Press International teletype machine. A direct feed to the PA system in the Lewis cafeteria was also added.
* WERA-AM – picked up where WLCL left off in the Fall of 1970. It was at this time that the merger with the College of St. Francis in Joliet was announced (the combined school would be called Lewis-St. Francis of Illinois) and the campus radio station at Lewis (the "North Campus") would now serve the two dorms at the "South Campus" (CSF) as well. A direct feed was installed in the newly remodeled Student Union. A second studio was constructed for production use with the turntables and mixer module able to be easily removed for "remote" broadcast origination from anywhere on the "twin campuses." Most of the carpentry work during the upgrade was done by Station Manager Dennis Stork and the studio wiring was done by Mike Berlak. One very late night, while station staffers discussed plans for the new incarnation of the station (around a table at the Pure Oil truckstop on 55), they noticed a dry cleaners' van in the parking lot with the name "New Era" on it. It was a "new era" for both the college and the campus radio station...and that was the inspiration for the new call letters, WERA. At that time, the station also changed the transmitter frequency to 590 kHz. At the start of the Fall 1971 semester, the station conducted its biggest promotional push, "weraweek!" Highlights included the WERA YesterHop (a live broadcast/50s style "sock hop" in the Union) and a flight of the WERA Beer Bomber (a live broadcast from an airplane over the campus which dropped certificates good for six-packs to the assembled multitudes below.) During the 1971–72 school year, General Manager Mike Berlak began the process of applying for an FCC FM license, which would allow over-the-air broadcasts. In anticipation of this expansion, a completely new broadcast facility was built in the former Fitz Hall Lounge area, opening in the Spring of 1972.
* WLRA-FM – (W – LRA – Lewis RAdio) went on the air March 4, 1973, on 88.1 in mono, 250 watts of
effective radiated power
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at
HAAT
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. WLRA is licensed as a non-commercial educational radio station. In 1976 WLRA added stereo. Lewis University was annexed from Lockport to Romeoville, Illinois, and WLRA's license reflected the change.
Programming
As with most colleges, WLRA included the
music industry
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, and the musical tastes of the station's staff and the listening audience change with the times. Colleges and Universities have a diverse student population and audience. The college's radio station has the obligation to meet these challenges. As Cardinal
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican ministry, Anglican priest and later as a Catholi ...
wrote: ''"to live is to change... and to be perfect is to have changed often"''. College radio stations pride themselves on promoting underplayed and under-represented forms of music, the obscure and unique – versus the mainstream. The college radio stations achieve this with
independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music or simply indie) is music that is produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording a ...
labels and the
CMJ Online
WLRA Radio's diverse programming reflects a traditional
college radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced ...
format known as
variety
Variety may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats
* Variety (radio)
* Variety show, in theater and television
Films
* ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont
* ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...
presented in block style (2–4 hour show).
WLRA Radio has hosted many innovative radio programs over the years. These include eclectic and Freeform (radio format)">Freeform, experimental
college radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced ...
programming, weekly live radio talk shows, Lewis University Flyer sporting events from around the country, remote broadcasts, and community service events.
WLRA's current programming includes news and sports talk radio, coverage of
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...
Flyer Sports, local high school football and basketball; music genre formats including
adult album alternative
Adult album alternative (also triple-A, AAA, or adult alternative) is a radio format. See pages 9 and 10Mills, Joshua. "A New Radio Music Format: Rock for Prosperous Adults" New York Times, Feb 28 1994, p. 2. ProQuest. Web. Accessed September 4, 2 ...
,
alternative rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...
,
hip hop,
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
,
rock and roll
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,
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
,
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
,
reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...
,
religious
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,
country
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, seasonal
Christmas music
Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols or songs, may employ lyrics whose subject ma ...
, and Latina-American cultural immersion.
In the Fall 2008 semester, WLRA staffed 24 hours with students on air. The station also introduced a Trop Rock format called "The Island" which features calypso, reggae, and Caribbean rock music.
WLRA has broadcast many radio remotes from as far away as Florida to cover Lewis University Flyer Baseball, Las Vegas to broadcast "The Practice Squad" sports talk show; and also the National Association of Broadcasters Convention at the Comrex booth. The radio station has also broadcast from The
House of Blues
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in Chicago, LaLaPalooza, Jimmy Buffett pre-concert, Ditka's Restaurant in Chicago, and
ESPN Zone
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in Chicago.
WLRA, with a commitment to community service, has produced marathon broadcasts for a local children's hospital and
Christmas music
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programming with the
United Way
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United Way organizations raise funds ...
of
Will County
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Common meanings
* Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death
* Will (philosophy), or willpower
* Will (sociology)
* Will, volition (psychology)
* Will, a modal verb - see Shall and will
...
. In March 2011, broadcasting student Jodi Steinberg set a WLRA broadcasting record with a 76-hour non-stop on-air marathon during "To Kill A DJ".
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Specialty radio shows
"The Island" features calypso, reggae, and Caribbean rock music (Friday Midnight – Sunday 3am)
"Route 53 Country" features country music (Sunday 6 am-6 pm)
"Friday Night Lights" features local high school football games from the Joliet region (weekly – Friday 6pm-10pm)
"United Way of Will County's Christmas Memories for you and your Family" features religious and secular Christmas music (Thanksgiving until January, 24 hours a day)
Technical achievements
Lewis University's WLRA Radio was the first college radio station in the country to become digital. Lewis University received a $350,000 digital broadcasting project grant in the 1990s from the philanthropy of The Andrew Corporation, a leading worldwide communications corporation. The studios, music archives, music scheduling system, audio storage and retrieval systems (including an AES/EBU Broadcast Electronics – Audiovault serial number 001 and 002), digital
audio consoles, CD players & recorders,
minidisc
MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.
Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year fo ...
players and recorders, and
DAT),
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. Wo ...
digital phone system,
ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. Wo ...
and IP remote broadcast
codec
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. ''Codec'' is a portmanteau of coder/decoder.
In electronic communications, an endec is a device that acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or da ...
s, Optimod 8700 AES/EBU audio processing, AES/EBU
broadcast delay
In radio and television, broadcast delay is an intentional delay when broadcasting live material, technically referred to as a deferred live. Such a delay may be to prevent mistakes or unacceptable content from being broadcast. Longer delays las ...
, Harris Digit AES/EBU fm
exciter, and transmitters were upgraded from analog to
state of the art
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digital
AES3
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type I balanced and type II optical. The entire digital project was a joint venture with the Freberg Communications Corporation of Illinois,
Harris Corporation
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of Florida, Pacific Research and Engineering of California, A-Ware Corporation (
Musicmaster
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Broadcast Electronics
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Founded in ...
Corporation of Illinois. WLRA also added RDS
Radio Data System
Radio Data System (RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts. RDS standardizes several types of information transmitted, including time, station identificati ...
to the FM transmission allowing information about the artist and song to be displayed on a radio tuned to 88.1-FM. Lewis University installed a new self-standing radio tower and new digital
IBOC
In-band on-channel (IBOC) is a hybrid method of transmitting digital radio and analog radio broadcast signals simultaneously on the same frequency. The name refers to the new digital signals being broadcast in the same AM or FM band (in-band), a ...
or
HD Radio
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ready ERI Rototile
Broadcast Solutions™, Antennas, Towers – Electronics Research Inc , Chandler, INsingle bay fm antenna in 2000 adjacent to DeLaSalle Hall. WLRA increased the antenna height to
HAAT
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and had to reduce the
effective radiated power
Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter. It is the total power in watts that would hav ...
to 140 watts. WLRA moved from the basement of the Fitzpatrick Hall dormitory basement to the new studios and broadcasting center in December 2005. The new broadcasting facility was named The Andrew Center of Electronic Media at
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...
. The
state of the art
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broadcasting studios and transmitters are located in DeLaSalle Hall on the
Lewis University
Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...
Romeoville
Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village is located southwest of Chicago on the Des Plaines River. Per the 2020 census, the population was 39,863. It is located in the southwest suburban area of Chicago near I ...
campus. In 2005 WLRA began
streaming
Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content it ...
a simulcast of the station over the Internet and in 2008
mobile media
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APPs for the Apple
iPhone and
iPod Touch
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.
Simultaneously Apple added WLRA as one of their iTunes Radio Stations under the College format. WLRA uses an AES3 Orban Opticodec audio processing/encoder for their 128kbs and 64kbs bit streams. In 2010, WLRA and Broadcast Electronics, Inc. integrated social media automation and
Twitter
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with the newest generation of Broadcast Electronics AudioVault (FLEX) and Message Manager (TRE)
RBDS
Radio Data System (RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts. RDS standardizes several types of information transmitted, including time, station identificati ...
data. The automation allows listeners to be notified of their favorite artists being played through tagging. WLRA was the first station to have Broadcast Electronics integrate customer-supplied computers, paving the way for other stations to upgrade to new-generation Audiovault FLEX. In the Spring of 2012, WLRA was among the first 15 colleges selected to be part of
Clear Channel Communication's
iHeartRadio
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for both internet streaming and mobile media apps.
WLRA's memberships
* NAB (
National Association of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States. The NAB represents more than ...
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NAB: The Voice for America's Radio and TV Broadcastersmember station
* ILBA (Illinois Broadcaster's Associatio
Illinois Broadcasters Association* BEA (Broadcast Education Associatio
BEA – The Broadcast Education Association , Educating Tomorrow's Media
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Lewis University
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LRA
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LRA
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Will County, Illinois
Education in Will County, Illinois
Romeoville, Illinois
Radio stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in Illinois