WVPH (90.3
FM, "The Core") is
Piscataway, New Jersey
Piscataway () is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area, in the Raritan Valley. At the 2010 United States Census, the population was 56,044, an increase of 5,562 (+11.0%) fr ...
's community and student-run
radio station
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. The slogan is "Many voices, one station", and is a commercial free,
freeform radio station, where the
disc jockey
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can play and say whatever they want, as long as it goes by
FCC rules and regulations (such as no on air profanity).
It is a broadcasting agreement between the former WRLC AM station from
Rutgers, Livingston College and WVPH-FM from Piscataway High School. The two institutions combined forces in 1997 to create an educational opportunity and provide an outlet for both entertainment and information. This radio station is self-governed with help from the two schools and the community. It is student-run, and community members can join the station as DJs.
![WVPH Radio Tower](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/WVPH_Radio_Tower.JPG)
WVPH's transmitter is now located on a communications tower on the Livingston campus of Rutgers University. It was previously located on the roof of Piscataway High School. The transmitter was moved on October 6, 2007, following a day of stunting that led up to the transmitter move. The new coverage area reaches over 85% more people than the old coverage area.
In 2009, The Core conducted a live three-day broadcast from the All Points West Festival in Jersey City, New Jersey. DJs facilitated interviews and organized performances in the facility.. Every year since 2011, the Core hosts a music festival at Rutgers called Corefest, with headlines, subheadliners, and local bands.
The Core has won awards for several years from the
Intercollegiate Broadcasting System
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.
Music
The Core has several
music
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departments including:
Rock
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* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
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* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
, Loud Rock (
Metal Music
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), RPM, Urban,
Blues
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,
Jazz
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, and World. Along with these genres, other music related departments are Local Music Director and Live Music Director. Being located near New Brunswick, a
college town
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, the Core is well known among students, as well as the underground music scene.
Many local bands have affiliated themselves with the Core, by recording in the studio, performing in Core-organized concerts, or joining the Core as DJs. The music departments are in charge of contacting promoters for new music, reviewing albums, and adding albums into the musical playlists. New music comes in from promoters, either in digital or physical disk form. It is then reviewed and added into the WideOrbit system by the music departments as a playlist, which is a database that allows DJs to play songs on command in addition to pre-recorded announcements, PSAs, and IDs. Each DJ show (unless it is a specialty show) is required to play 6 different playlist songs every hour, which helps diversify the music listened to by the jockeys.
The music departments as well as any DJ is allowed to review album, review concerts, and interview artists .
Some bands that have been affiliated with the Core include:
Japanese Breakfast
Japanese Breakfast is an indie pop band headed by Korean-American musician Michelle Zauner.
Zauner started the band as a side project in 2013, when she was leading the Philadelphia-based emo group Little Big League. She has said that she named ...
,
The Hotelier
The Hotelier is an American indie rock band from Worcester, Massachusetts, currently signed with Dreams of Field Recordings. The band's second album, '' Home, Like Noplace Is There'', has been featured on Spin's "The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s ...
,
Petal
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, and
A Great Big Pile of Leaves
A Great Big Pile of Leaves is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, currently signed to Topshelf Records. It was founded by guitarist/singer Pete Weiland and drummer Tyler Soucy, who began creating and recording the ...
.
See also
*
WRSU-FM
WRSU (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial college radio station serving the greater Central New Jersey area, broadcasting from the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is a student and faculty-run radio station with Rutgers fac ...
: Rutgers station in New Brunswick
References
External links
90.3 The Core's website90.3 The Pulse's website*
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Rutgers University
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Radio stations established in 1977
Piscataway, New Jersey