WQFS

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WQFS are the call letters for the student run college radio station at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast at a frequency of 90.9 Mhz and at 1.9 kilowatts power on the noncommercial spectrum of the FM band. After getting its FCC license in 1966, the station began broadcasting January 6, 1970 at ten watts, and increased its signal to its current level in 1979.

The station began broadcasting in an adult contemporary or middle of the road format, but by its second year of operation some disk jockeys began to play what a decade later would become known as college rock. Others would play hybrid programming, which could feature avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, bluegrass, blues, and Musique concrète, sometimes all within the same program. One early experiment involved celebrating the second anniversary of the Paul Is Dead hoax by playing not only Beatles, but other rock, and even classical records backwards, or using the station's two turntables to play a Beatles song forwards and backwards at the same time.

Typically, daytime slots are manned by college students who stick to a more standard rotation of music. Nighttime and weekend shows, which are DJ'd more often by community members, are more likely to be specialty shows that diverge from the standard format.

[edit] External links

• Homepage of WQFS FM
• Homepage of Guilford College
• WQFS MySpace Profile
• J's Indie/Rock Mayhem, a blog by a WQFS DJ

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WQFS